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		Home > Table of contents       Table of contents         - I - Professionals and activities of the financial sector - A - Banks and other professionals of the financial sector 1. Legal status a ) General legal status of banks and other PFS 1. Approval a ) Approval for the domestic market I Banks II Professionals of the financial sector other than banks 1. Investment firms 2. PFS other than investment firms 3. PFS with a linked or complementary activity Company domiciliation agents b ) European passport 2. Professional duties, prudential rules and rules of conduct a ) Rules of conduct b) PFS others than investment firms c) PFS managing third parties' funds d ) Organisational rules d) Credit institutions and investment firms e) Credit institutions and investment firms e.1. Identification of clients, prevention of money laundering and cooperation with the authorities e.2. Bank secrecy 3. Rules of accountancy b) Special rules 1. Public law credit institutions 1. Caisse de consignation 2. Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat 3. Société Nationale de Crédit et d'Investissement - S.N.C.I. 2. Debenture bond Banks 3. Electronic money institutions 2. Business a ) Accounts and deposits 1. Deposit - general rules 2. Securities deposits 3. Fungible deposits of precious metal 4. Online financial services 5. Taxation of savings b ) Payment and credit services and instruments 1. Bill of exchange 2. Cheque 3. Transfer 4. Payment and credit cards c ) Credits 1. Credit transactions 1. Loan - general rules 2. Consumer credits 3. Assignment of claims 2. Credit guarantees a. Personal guarantees 1.1 Suretyship 1.2 Independant guarantees 1.3 Delcredere agreement b. Security rights 2.1 Pledge - Antichresis 2.2 Mortgage 2.3 Transfer of property 2.4 Pledge of business capital 2.5 Agricultural Pledges d ) Fiduciary agreements and trusts e ) Investment services Mandate and commission f ) Currency and interest rate Swaps g) Wealth management 3. Prudential supervision a) Ratios and structural margins b) Accounting audit c) Shareholders d) Supervision on a consolidated basis e) Holdings f) Client complaints g) Other requirements h) Financial conglomerates 4. Guarantee schemes a) Deposit-guarantee schemes b) Investor compensation schemes 5. Reorganisation and winding up 6. Acquisitions and increase of holdings - B - Undertakings for collective investments 1. Coordinated UCITS 2. Uncoordinated Luxembourg UCI 3. Foreign UCI 4 . General Provisions a) Approval, supervision, reporting b) Information and protection of investors c) Duties and Taxes c) Transformation and compartments e) Taxation of interest payments to investors 5. Specialised UCI 6. Management companies 7. Other provisions - C - Pension funds - D - Securitization structures - E - Venture capital and private equity companies - F - Supervisory authority - II - Professionals and activities of the insurance sector - A - Insurance companies 1. Legal status a) General legal status of insurance companies 1. Approval a ) Approval for the domestic market b ) European passport 2. Professional duties b ) Identification of clients, prevention of money laundering and cooperation with the authorities b ) Insurancesecrecy b) Special rules 1. Insurancegroups 2. Specific classes 3. Large-exposures and european co-insurance 2. Insurance contracts 3. Prudential rules a) Solvency margin and guarantee fund b) Technical reserves c) Bestimmungen über die Währungskongruenz d) Financial conglomerates 4. Reorganisation and winding up 5. Acquisitions and increase of holdings - B - Reinsurance companies - C - Insurance Executives and Intermediaries - D - Pension funds - E - Rules of accountancy - F - Commissariat aux Assurances - III - Financial markets and instruments - A - Financial markets 1. Luxembourg Stock Exchange 2. General Marketsupervision 3. Market Transparency and fairness of transactions a. Public offer of securities - company law b. Public offer and public listing prospectus c. Information on issuers of transferable securities d. Obligation to provide information by stock exchanges e. Declaration of transactions f. Major holdings g. Market abuse and insiderdealings h. Takeover bid i. Rules of conduct and of practice 4. Forward transactions - B - Financial Instruments 1. Shares, founders' shares, bonds of luxembourg companies 2. Disposession of bearer securities 3. Circulation and securities lending 4. Collateral on financial instruments - IV - Monetary et financial systems - A - Central Bank of Luxembourg - B - Monetary status 1. Currency a) Euro b) Monetary regime prior to the EMU 2. Monetary policy a) Instruments and procedures b) Minimum reserves c) Sanctions 3. Statistics a) Monetary and financial statistics b) Statistics relating to the payment balance - C - Payment and securities settlement systems - D - International financial relations 1. International and european financial institutions a) International Monetary Fund b) Worldbank c) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development d) European Investment Bank e) Council of Europe Development Bank f) Asian Development Bank g) International Fund for Agricultural Development 2. Exchange control Recognition of foreign controls 3. Financial sanctions and fight against terrorism

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