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Malta introduced key amendments to the Companies Act (Register of Beneficial Owners) Regulations through Legal Notice 127 of 2025. These changes are part of Malta’s continued implementation of the Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/1640), aimed at enhancing transparency and strengthening efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

We highlight the key lessons from each stage of this journey and look ahead to emerging trends. Ultimately, this article serves as both a recap and a forward-looking perspective—an essential guide for CISOs ready to future-proof their strategies in an ever-shifting cyber landscape.

This article explores the responsibilities of company officers, the process of disclosing UBOs, public access to BO data, penalties for non-compliance, and regulatory updates introduced by the MBR.

This article delves into the CISO’s leadership in driving a proactive security culture. We’ll explore strategies for inspiring buy-in from stakeholders, fostering continuous staff engagement, and leveraging a risk-aware environment that empowers everyone to become an active participant in protecting critical assets.

Most family businesses don’t run into VAT problems because they break the rules, issues arise when no one questions them. In this article, we explore how everyday decisions, informal structures, and unspoken assumptions can quietly expose even the most successful family businesses to VAT risk. If your business has grown on trust, tradition, or inherited ways of working, this piece is worth your time.

This article contains information about the Maltese Income Tax System.

We explore common cybersecurity threats that every CISO must anticipate, examine how to develop robust scenario plans, and outline a real-world incident response strategy that balances urgency with strategic foresight.

Malta’s resident non-domiciled tax regime is one of the most attractive in Europe. It allows individuals who are tax residents but not domiciled in Malta to benefit from a remittance-based taxation system. Here’s how it works...