2018-01-01 | FIN-FSA Regulations and guidelines 7/2018

Organization of Investment Services Activities and Procedures

The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA) has issued regulations and guidelines governing the organization of investment services activities and associated procedures. These rules establish the operational standards and conduct of business requirements for supervised entities within the financial sector. The document serves as a comprehensive regulatory framework ensuring compliance with financial supervision standards.

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FIN-FSA regulations and guidelines

Commencement of activities

  • Payment institutions and persons offering payment services without a license
  • Consumer credit providers and peer-to-peer lending intermediaries

Organisation of supervised entities’ operations

  • Organization of investment fund activities and procedures
  • Outsourcing in supervised entities belonging to the financial sector
  • Reporting of mortgage bank operations
  • Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs)
  • Organization of investment services activities and procedures

Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

  • Customer due diligence related to compliance with sanctions regulation and national freezing orders

Risk management

  • Risk reporting by credit institutions
  • Reporting of funding plans
  • Management of operational risk in supervised entities of the financial sector
  • Management of credit risk and assessment of creditworthiness by supervised entities in the financial sector
  • Risk management concerning mortgage bank operations

Accounting, financial statements and management report

  • Regulations and guidelines on accounting, financial statements, and management reports: Insurance companies, occupational pension insurance companies, insurance associations, insurance holding companies, branches of third-country insurance companies, and pension institutions established by law
  • Regulations and guidelines on accounting, financial statements, and management reports: Pension funds and pension foundations
  • Regulations on accounting, financial statements, and management reports: Sickness funds and funeral and severance allowance funds

Financial sector regulations and guidelines on reporting of financial information (FINREP)

  • Accounting, financial statements, and management report of the financial sector

Capital adequacy

  • Common European Reporting (COREP)
  • Regulations and Guidelines related to the Capital Requirements Regulation
  • Prudential reporting for investment firms (IF)

Conduct of Business

  • Methods used to calculate the maximum compensation charged for early repayment of housing loans
  • Disclosure of expenses and returns of long-term savings agreements and insurance policies
  • Calculation of maximum loan-to-value ratio
  • Procedures to be followed in banking services
  • Management of default risks in consumer lending

Operations of securities markets

  • Takeover bid and the obligation to launch a bid
  • Public insider register of market participants, occupational pension insurance companies, and fund management companies
  • Trading parties from third countries
  • Regulations and guidelines on disclosure obligation

Insurance operations

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