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Regulated activities require additional professional qualifications and authorizations.

5. Insurance:

(i) Conducting direct insurance and reinsurance activities in Luxembourg;

(ii) Insurance and reinsurance mediation activities (e.g. presenting and proposing (re)insurance contracts, carrying out preparatory works to their conclusion, contributing to the execution of (re)insurance contracts (handling of claims on behalf of the insured)).

1. Financial Institutions and fintech companies (e.g. regulated by CSSF (“Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier”), mainly:

(i) Banking;

(ii) Providing custody (safeguarding and settlement of transactions and other related administration in relation to assets that include investment);

(iv) Pension funds.

(iii) Credit institutions (receiving deposits or other repayable funds from the public and granting credits for their own account);

2. Electronic money and payment services, mainly:

(i) Issuing, distributing and redeeming electronic money;

(ii) Carrying on payment services (e.g. money remittance, card issuance, acquiring card transactions and the operation of payment accounts).

4. Virtual assets services:

(i) Exchange between virtual assets and fiat currencies, including the exchange between virtual currencies and fiat currencies;

(ii) Exchange between one or more forms of virtual assets;

(iv) Safekeeping and/or administration of virtual assets or instruments enabling control over virtual assets, including custodian wallet services;

(v) Participation in and provision of financial services related to an issuer’s offer and/or sale of virtual assets.

(iii) Transfer of virtual assets;

6. Companies

whose activities can affect workers, people in general and/or the environment, requiring a specific operating permit – commonly referred to as a “commodo/ incommodo” permit, e.g. construction, transformation or expansion of houses and residential or commercial buildings).

7. Activities regulated by Ministry of Health

and the Luxembourgish Bar (e.g. statistical and epidemiological analysis, audio phonology/orthoptics).

3. Investment and other financial services:

(i) Investment firms (companies active in the business of providing financial advice, investment and brokerage services, market making, and the distribution of financial products);

(ii) Specialized PFS (Specialized PFS are financial professionals that conduct activities outside the scope of investment firms as defined in the European directives, e.g. domiciliation agents, registrar agents, professional depositaries, Family Offices, and professionals performing securities lending);

(iii) Support PFS (A support PFS is a company that enters into an outsourcing arrangement with a credit institution, payment institution, investment fund, pension fund, insurance/reinsurance undertaking or another PFS to provide services that require access to confidential data. These services fall under six categories: client communication agents, administrative agents, primary IT systems operators, secondary IT systems, dematerialization service providers and conservation service providers.