CERHA HEMPEL — News

As part of this year's Financial Planner Conference on 11 November 2025, which marks the 75^th anniversary of the foundation of the Austrian Centre for Productivity and Efficiency (ÖPWZ), CERHA HEMPEL Banking and Finance partner Dr. Peter Knobl updated numerous financial advisors, portfolio managers, and financial planners on the latest regulatory developments relating to investment advice and…

This year, CERHA HEMPEL was once again delighted to participate in the IBA Annual Conference.

AMINA (Austria) AG, a subsidiary of AMINA Bank AG, has recently received authorisation from the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) to provide crypto-asset services under the EU's new Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). 

Hon.-Prof. Dr Georg Nowotny, former President of a senate of the Supreme Court, will in future support CERHA HEMPEL and its clients as Of Counsel.

CERHA HEMPEL comprehensively advised CA Immobilien Anlagen AG (CA Immo) on the sale of the Bartók Ház – a 17,600 m² office building in Budapest – to the Czech DRFG Investment Group. This marks one of the standout real estate deals of 2025 in Hungary. The transaction team comprised Wilhelm Stettner as lead partner, András Fenyőházi as partner and Csongor Fillár as associate.

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Thomson Reuters Legal Europe has published the annual update (Sept 2025) of the survey compiled by CERHA HEMPEL Banking & Finance Partner Peter Knobl on banking regulation in Austria.

Following our client alert on the amended Euro Introduction Act and its new obligations for businesses, this update provides further guidance in light of the Consumer Protection Commission’s (“CPC”) newly published Guidelines on the application of Article 55b of the Euro Introduction Act (the “Guidelines”), addressing the daily reporting obligations of large retailers and the submission of…

CERHA HEMPEL has joined forces with Codara, an AI start-up based in Vienna, to develop an AI-powered regulatory monitoring tool that can continuously monitor relevant legal sources – from RIS and Findok to EUR-Lex databases. The system is able to process over 1,000 legal documents per week and uses AI models specially trained on legal texts to minimise hallucinations and ensure maximum accuracy.

On 20 August, flatexDEGIRO AG launched its crypto business in Austria. With this step, one of Europe’s leading online brokers expands its offering and now enables Austrian clients to trade around 20 different crypto assets in a simple and transparent manner.