Coronavirus epidemic

General information in connection with the coronavirus epidemic:

Regulatory requirements apply irrespective of market phases or external circumstances. For this reason, financial intermediaries must continue to comply with their regulatory obligations. However, there may be eased requirements or special obligations as a result of the coronavirus epidemic. These are based on the integration of the Financial Market Authority (FMA) Liechtenstein in the European System of Financial Supervision. The FMA supports the recommendations of the European supervisory authorities (ESAs) and intends to implement them. By doing so, it is helping to provide operational relief to financial intermediaries. In addition, the FMA can also impose its own measures, in particular to relieve financial market participants of duties that are not urgent.

The FMA publishes relevant information – general or sector-specific – on its website on an ongoing basis under “News”; it also publishes a newsletter with this information and communicates it on Twitter. Furthermore, all of the relevant information in connection with the coronavirus epidemic can be found under the section “Coronavirus epidemic”.

Further information for financial intermediaries (mostly in German)