Regulations amending Finansinspektionen’s regulations regarding institutions for electronic money and registered issuers (FFFS 2014:26)

Finansinspektionen’s Regulatory Code Publisher: Finansinspektionen, Sweden, www.fi.se ISSN 1102-7460 This translation is furnished for information purposes only and is not itself a legal document. 1 Regulations amending Finansinspektionen’s regulations and general guidelines (FFFS 2011:49) regarding institutions for electronic money and registered issuers; decided on 26 June 2014. Finansinspektionen prescribes pursuant to section 6, point 5 of the Electronic Money Ordinance (2011:776) with regard to Finansinspektionen’s regulations and general guidelines (FFFS 2011:49) regarding institutions for electronic money and registered issuers in part that current Chapter 10, section 9 immediately following the heading “Exceptions” shall be designated Chapter 10, section 10, in part that Chapter 9, section 3 shall have the following wording, Chapter 9 Section 3 An institution for electronic money or a registered issuer which pursuant to Chapter 3, section 7, second paragraph of the Electronic Money Act (2011:755) opts to invest funds in liquid assets with low risk may only do so in assets covered by table 1, second line of Article 336(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012. Funds may however not be invested in other eligible securities according to the definition in point 4 of the same Article.

These regulations shall enter into force on 2 August 2014. ANNIKA ZERVENS Camilla Edvardsson FFFS 2014:26 Published on 9 July 2014