Luxembourg is Europe's second-largest investment-fund centre. We cover the asset managers, the regulator, cross-border tax rules, fintech, and the policy fights that determine where capital flows in the Grand Duchy and beyond.
Luxembourg taxes savings interest at a final 20%, exempts half of qualifying dividends, and leaves most share gains untaxed after six months. The thresholds are small and behave as cliffs, not allowances.
Luxembourg is set to host the European hub of a Canada-led defence bank seeking to mobilise up to £100 billion. Political backing is in place, but domestic treaty procedures and key financial commitments still lie ahead.
The CSSF will not extend the Luxembourg-approved prospectus that allows Israeli government bonds to be offered in five EU countries. The authorisation expires on 31 August, although another European regulator could still approve a future prospectus.
UniCredit said on Wednesday that its takeover offer for Commerzbank had lifted the stake it can oversee to 47.6%, even though only about 1% of the German bank's free-float investors tendered shares. Berlin, holding roughly 12%, still refuses to sell, and the European Central Bank must now decide whether the Italian lender counts as being in control.
In its 2026 Annual Economic Report, released at its Basel annual meeting, the BIS warns that the AI boom has become a major, debt-financed driver of US growth whose reversal could hurt the whole economy. It also flags a new fiscal-financial stability nexus around record public debt. For Luxembourg, the world's second-largest fund domicile, the warning lands close to home.
Binance is pulling back from the European Union after failing to win a licence under the bloc's MiCA regime, while Coinbase has secured its EU-wide passport from Luxembourg's CSSF — a split-screen moment as the transition period ends.
The US Supreme Court threw out a $1.25 million Roundup verdict and held that federal law preempts the state failure-to-warn claims behind most glyphosate cancer suits — a sweeping win for Bayer that erased years of legal overhang in a single morning.
Venezuela is set to disclose a public-debt pile approaching $240bn, well above the $150bn–$170bn analysts had assumed. Built up since the 2017 default, it sets up the biggest sovereign restructuring on record, with a sprawling creditor list and Wall Street advisers already circling.
Alan Greenspan, who chaired the US Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 and was celebrated as 'the maestro' before the 2008 financial crisis darkened his legacy, has died at 100 from complications of Parkinson's disease.
A fresh investigation by two Belgian newspapers finds the country's hundred wealthiest families hold roughly €91 billion through 416 Luxembourg companies — nearly double the figure recorded in 2018, and a fresh test of the Grand Duchy's holding-company reputation.
SpaceX's record Nasdaq debut is being ushered into the MSCI World even as the same provider hands it the lowest ESG grade on its scale. The clash matters most in Luxembourg, the world's second fund domicile and Europe's largest home for sustainable portfolios, where index trackers and SFDR Article 8 and 9 funds must decide whether to own a CCC-rated stock.
A draft European Commission report wants to let cross-border banks shift capital and liquidity across the EU to compete with US rivals. For a financial centre built on 117 foreign-owned banks, the reform is both an opportunity and a risk.
The signing of a 14-point US–Iran memorandum reopening the Strait of Hormuz has pulled crude back toward $80 a barrel — and in import-dependent Luxembourg, where the Ministry of the Economy fixes maximum pump prices, the relief is already visible on the motorway price boards.
A US law has accelerated dollar-backed stablecoins, prompting the ECB to push for a digital euro by 2029. Luxembourg, the EU base for PayPal and Amazon and a hub for blockchain-bond experiments, is unusually exposed to the outcome.
From 3 to 5 June 2026 Luxembourg hosted its first International Climate Finance Days, marking ten years of the Luxembourg Green Exchange and gathering the EIB, the European Commission and Brazil's foreign minister to debate how to move private capital into the climate transition.
The European Central Bank is expected to raise its key rate by a quarter-point on 11 June, reversing an easing cycle after war-driven energy costs pushed euro-area inflation to its highest since 2023. Luxembourg, with the bloc's frothiest housing market and a large share of adjustable-rate debt, is among the most exposed.
Many employees in Luxembourg expect a 13th-month salary, but there is no statutory right to one. It is owed only when written into your contract, provided by a collective agreement (CCT), or established as a binding company custom. The practice is common in banking, insurance, and healthcare. This explainer covers when a 13th month is genuinely due, how it differs from a gratification or a discretionary bonus, how it is taxed, and what you can claim if you leave mid-year.
Luxembourg parents have three distinct statutory leaves. Maternity leave is 20 weeks (8 before, 12 after the birth), paid by the CNS as a maternity allowance. Paternity or co-parent leave is 10 days, taken within two months of the birth. Parental leave gives each parent 4 or 6 months full-time (or part-time and split options), paid by the CAE as an income-replacement allowance. This guide explains the durations, amounts, application deadlines and job protection.
Luxembourg's family allowance pays €315.04 per child per month, rising with age supplements at 6 and 12. A back-to-school allowance of €115 or €235 is added each August, and a €1,740.09 birth allowance is paid in three tranches. The Caisse pour l'avenir des enfants (CAE) handles every claim, for residents and for the children of cross-border workers alike.
Lose your job in Luxembourg through no fault of your own and the State pays full unemployment benefit (indemnité de chômage complet): 80% of your prior gross salary, or 85% with a dependent child. You must register with ADEM within four weeks, apply within two weeks of registering, have worked at least 182 days in the previous 12 months, and be a resident aged 16 to 64. Benefit runs for up to 12 months and is applied for online.
