Financial Market Authority Liechtenstein (FMA): regulatory returns

What this page covers

Every periodic return the FMA lists for the main populations it supervises, as far as its own pages and linked documents describe them: 80 returns, of which 48 national (the FMA's own; group names end '(national)') and 32 EU/EEA-harmonised (group names end '(EU, EBA)', '(EU, EIOPA)' or '(EU, ESAs)'; Liechtenstein takes part through the EEA Agreement, not as an EU member, but its own pages and legal texts apply the EU frameworks directly once the underlying EU act has been taken into the EEA Agreement and Liechtenstein law, for example Durchführungsverordnung (EU) Nr. 2024/3117, which gives direct effect to the EBA's Implementing Technical Standards on supervisory reporting). Two returns (pension fund individual annual and quarterly reporting) and the AIFMD reporting return are EU-defined (by EIOPA or ESMA) but the library has no matching EIOPA or ESMA entry yet, so they are described in full here rather than pointed at a library id, as the EIOPA RSR and ORSA returns also are. Covered, in priority order: (1) banks and investment firms that remain on the CRR/bank calendar ('Class 1'), using the Meldekalender der Banken und Wertpapierfirmen (Stand Juni 2025) as the anchor list, which sets out every periodic and event-driven return with its legal basis, frequency, reference dates, deadlines and format; (2) investment firms under the Wertpapierfirmengesetz (the IFR/IFD-style Class 2 and Class 3 population), anchored on FMA-Wegleitung 2025/1; (3) e-money institutions and payment institutions, anchored on the joint Meldekalender der E-Geld-Institute und Zahlungsinstitute; (4) insurance undertakings, anchored on FMA-Wegleitung 2022/6 and the national statutory XBRL taxonomy pages; (5) pension schemes (Vorsorgeeinrichtungen, under the BPVG) and pension funds (Pensionsfonds, under the PFG), anchored on FMA-Wegleitung 2022/7 and FMA-Wegleitung 2022/8; (6) UCITS management companies and funds, and AIFM and the AIF they manage, anchored on the 'Laufende Aufsicht' (ongoing supervision) pages for each population and, for AIFMD reporting, the Wegleitung zu Berichtspflichten für AIF und AIFM; (7) DORA reporting that applies across all these sectors, anchored on the FMA's DORA Reporting page. Research was done in German for the Meldekalender, Wegleitungen, Mitteilungen and Excel/XBRL templates, which are not published in English; the FMA's English pages were used for the regulator's mission, for the DORA pages (published in English) and for the general structure of each sector's pages, and official German titles are kept in 'official_name' or in the return's own 'code' where the FMA gives one. Quoted deadlines are close translations of the German text, not literal quotations. Left out, or covered only lightly: insurance intermediaries, auditors and audit firms, trustees and trust companies, patent lawyers, persons under Art. 180a PGR, crypto-asset service providers and token issuers under the Token and Trustworthy Technology Act (TVTG) and under MiCAR (the FMA's TVTG page states the supervisory system for VT service providers is 'rein anlassbezogen', purely event-driven, with no periodic return, and the MiCAR pages checked describe only the registration and notification process, not a periodic report); the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) issuer and CASP reporting ids in the library (eba/mica, eba/mica-of) were not matched to any periodic Liechtenstein return because none was found; statistical surveys and MiFIR transaction/position reporting, EMIR and SFTR reporting, market abuse notifications and short-selling notifications (these are mostly event- or trade-driven, not periodic, and were only noted where a model file's convention required a national-facts return, which none of these warranted on the pages read); and detailed per-template EBA/EIOPA explanatory annexes, which are the responsibility of the library's own eba/<id> and eiopa/<id> entries, not repeated here. Source

How firms file

• e-Service

  The FMA's online portal for regulatory filings. Firms upload periodic returns (as XBRL, XML, Excel or PDF files), event-driven notifications and supporting documents; the portal runs automated validation on XBRL submissions and returns an error report. This is the FMA's own public page about the reporting module; the login/registration page (portal.fma-li.li) is never requested by this library. Source

Data the FMA publishes from the returns

• Insurance undertakings' solvency and financial condition reports (SFCR)

  Firm by firm · PDF with XBRL quantitative annexes

  Each insurance undertaking publishes its own annual SFCR, with EIOPA's public disclosure quantitative templates, on its own website. Source

  From: SII Solvency and Financial Condition Report VU

  Reuse: Each firm's own terms apply; not the FMA's licence.

• Banks' and investment firms' Pillar 3 disclosure reports

  Firm by firm · PDF with structured annexes

  Each bank publishes its own Pillar 3 disclosure report, using the EBA's uniform disclosure templates, usually on its own website; the FMA is told the link. Source

  From: OFF

  Reuse: Each firm's own terms apply; not the FMA's licence.

• Investment firms' IFR Art. 46 disclosures

  Firm by firm · Free form, with structured annexes for own funds and investment policy

  Each Class 2 (and, for additional Tier 1 issuers, Class 3) investment firm publishes its own capital, remuneration, risk management and (where applicable) investment-policy disclosures, usually on its own website. Source

  From: IFR Art. 46

  Reuse: Each firm's own terms apply; not the FMA's licence.

• UCITS and AIF fund annual and half-year reports

  Firm by firm · PDF

  Each management company, self-managed investment company or AIFM publishes the annual and half-year report of each fund it runs, usually on its own website. Source

  From: OGAW Jahresbericht, OGAW Halbjahresbericht, AIF Jahresbericht, AIF Halbjahresbericht

  Reuse: Each firm's own terms apply; not the FMA's licence.

Reuse terms for the FMA's documents

Financial Market Authority Liechtenstein (FMA): Legal notice, 'Terms of use', checked 13 November 2026. In the FMA's words:

The information available on the FMA website and its subsites may be stored, passed on and reproduced. However, it may not be altered or falsified. The dissemination or reproduction is only permitted if the source is cited.

Can others share copies?

Allowed with conditions.

Conditions

Credit: cite the FMA as the source. Do not alter or falsify the information (copies here are unchanged; the summaries are Line4's own words and say so). Links: a commercial provider's link to the FMA website must open it as the only thing in the browser window, never in a frame. Logos: the FMA logo (including its lettering) may not be used or reproduced.

What the library does

Links each document on the regulator's own site, with its size and SHA-256 fingerprint so a change can be spotted. Documents are never hosted on line4.ai.

Notice the FMA's terms ask for: Source: Financial Market Authority Liechtenstein (FMA), https://www.fma-li.li. Documents are linked on the regulator's own site, not hosted here. The plain-English summaries are Line4's own; the FMA does not endorse this library.

What could not be verified

Said plainly, so nobody relies on a fact the sources do not give.

• The FMA's English 'Templates' page for banks and investment firms holds only a licensing form. Reporting detail for banks, investment firms, payment institutions and e-money institutions is read from the German 'Meldewesen' and 'Meldekalender' pages.
• MiCA issuer and crypto-asset service provider periodic reporting (library ids eba/mica, eba/mica-of): the FMA's German pages on activities under MiCAR, in its banking division and its asset management and markets division, describe registration, notification of token issuance and the register of token issuers, but no periodic report to the FMA was found on these pages; not catalogued as a return.
• Token and Trustworthy Technology Act (TVTG) VT service providers: the FMA's own page states the supervisory system is 'rein anlassbezogen' (purely event-driven), built around the notification duties in Art. 28 TVTG, with no periodic return; not catalogued as a return.
• Pension fund (Pensionsfonds) 'Individual Annual Reporting' and 'Individual Quarterly Reporting' and the insurers' RSR and ORSA supervisory reports are EU-defined (by EIOPA, via the Solvency II Delegated Regulation for RSR/ORSA, and via EIOPA's own occupational pension fund templates for the two IORP returns) but the library's eiopa.json file has no entry matching an IORP return, an RSR or an ORSA; these four returns are fully described here from the FMA's own Wegleitungen instead of being pointed at a library id.
• AIFMD Annex IV / Art. 107 AIFMG reporting is defined by ESMA (the 'consolidated AIFMD reporting template'), but the library has no esma.json file yet; the return is fully described here from the FMA's own Wegleitung zu Berichtspflichten für AIF und AIFM instead of being pointed at a library id.
• MiFIR transaction reporting (FMA-Wegleitung 2017/24), EMIR, SFTR and market abuse (MAR) notifications, and short-selling notifications are trade- or event-driven under the FMA's own 'Märkte' pages, not periodic returns in the sense this file catalogues; they were read but not added as returns.
• The FMA's English 'Templates' page for banks and investment firms lists only one licensing form (assessment of guarantees); it was checked but is not a source for any periodic return.
• Insurance intermediaries, auditors and audit firms, trustees and trust companies, patent lawyers, and persons under Art. 180a PGR each have their own FMA pages but were not catalogued in depth; their 'ongoing supervision' pages were not systematically checked for periodic returns.
• Document dates for most FMA forms and guidelines (Wegleitungen) are the server's Last-Modified date, because the files do not always state a publication date; where a guideline states its own 'Letzte Änderung' (last amended) date, that date is used.

Sources

• FMA Liechtenstein: legal notice (terms of use)
• FMA Liechtenstein: mission and participants
• Banks: Meldewesen (reporting)
• Banks: Regulierung/Rechtsgrundlagen (regulation/legal basis)
• Investment firms (Class 2/3): Laufende Aufsicht (ongoing supervision)
• E-money and payment institutions: Meldekalender (reporting calendar)
• Insurance undertakings: Meldewesen XBRL
• Insurance undertakings: Regulierung/Rechtsgrundlagen
• Pension schemes (Vorsorgeeinrichtungen): Laufende Aufsicht
• Pension funds (Pensionsfonds): Regulierung/Rechtsgrundlagen
• UCITS management companies and funds: Laufende Aufsicht
• AIFM: Laufende Aufsicht
• AIFM: Regulierung/Rechtsgrundlagen
• DORA Reporting
• FMA-Wegleitung 2022/6: regular reporting under the VersAG
• FMA-Wegleitung 2022/7: regular reporting under the BPVG
• FMA-Wegleitung 2022/8: regular reporting under the PFG
• FMA-Wegleitung 2025/1: periodic reporting for investment firms
• Wegleitung zu Berichtspflichten für AIF und AIFM
• Meldekalender der Banken und Wertpapierfirmen (Stand Juni 2025)
• Periodische Meldepflichten der E-Geld-Institute und Zahlungsinstitute

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