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The ESMA register of European Crowdfunding Service Providers lists every ECSP authorised under Regulation (EU) 2020/1503. This article explains what the register contains, what each field means, how passporting works for ECSPs, and what to check before engaging with any crowdfunding platform operating in the EU.
EcoVadis and CDP both appear in EU supply chain sustainability programmes, but they collect fundamentally different data and serve different ESRS obligations. This article explains what each platform provides, where each one is genuinely relevant to CSRD, and why using one as a substitute for the other creates a gap that an assurance auditor will find.
The AML Regulation replaces the patchwork of national AML transpositions with a directly applicable EU rulebook. For fintechs that have built compliance programmes around the variation in how member states implemented successive AML directives, the shift to uniform rules and centralised supervision changes the calculus in specific and material ways.
A regulatory update is not useful until you know what it means for your business. Here is how Verdandi turns a Commission proposal, a guidance document, or a consultation output into personalised analysis of what changed and why it matters to your specific situation.
The Council and Parliament agreed the Retail Investment Strategy package in December 2025. The inducements ban is gone, but the value-for-money benchmarks and the new inducement test introduce structural obligations that wealth tech firms and boutique asset managers need to prepare for now.