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18th of March 2026

Europe needs a 28th regime that enables growth

The European Commission will today present its proposals for a 28th regime in company law. The key element: the new, optional and uniform legal form of an EU company, known as EU Inc.

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14th of August 2025

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8th of August 2025

Implementation of the amended Distance Selling Directive (EU 2023/2673)

Of 22 November 2023 into German law

The German Banking Industry Committee (DK) has issued a statement on the draft bill (RefE) of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) for a ‘Law Amending Consumer Contract and Insurance Law’ dated 9 July 2025.

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4th of August 2025

Financing affordable living space: challenges and solutions

The German government has made it its mission to create affordable housing. And rightly so, because the federal government forecasts a need for 320,000 new apartments per year until 2030. Construction is too slow, too expensive, and not happening on a large enough scale. Banks can provide impulses in the ongoing discussion from a financing perspective.

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Fokus-Jahr 2026 für Finanzbildung – Blick nach Deutschland und Europa
24th of March 2026

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5th of March 2026

Shareholder Rights Directive III

Position paper on Chapter Ia

The European Commission work programme for 2026 includes a plan to evaluate the Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD). The key to success is a targeted revision of Chapter Ia SRD II and the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 (Implementing Regulation).