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🇲🇹Malta

Financial supervision in Malta is consolidated at MFSA, which handles banking, payments, and investment-firm authorisations. MiCA CASP authorisation runs through the same institution. AML/CFT supervision of financial institutions rests with FIAU. Bank licences in the euro area are formally granted by the ECB under the Single Supervisory Mechanism on the national authority's recommendation. 2 authorities carded for this jurisdiction — open each below for the full profile.

Malta's row of the coverage matrix

BankingPaymentsInvestmentCryptoAML
MFSALicensing

(ECB)

MFSALicensing
MFSALicensing
MFSALicensing
FIAUAML

(ECB) = euro-area banking licence formally granted by the European Central Bank under the SSM, on the recommendation of the national competent authority.

Authorities in Malta

MFSA

Financial supervisory authority

Malta Financial Services Authority

FIAU

AML authority

Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (Malta)

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