A significant amount of documents from the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), measuring a kilometre in total length, are now available to researchers after being transferred to the National Archives.
Interested parties are now privy to a wealth of information on the history of the banking sector and financial centre of Luxembourg, with documents dating back to the 1920s and bearing witness to the post-war evolution of this important economic sector. These records reflect the evolution and activities of the CSSF and its institutional predecessors.
The Grand Ducal Decree of 17 October 1945 relating to banking supervision first created the post of banking supervision commissioner, which was replaced in 1983 by the Luxembourg Monetary Institute (IML), whose powers extended to missions related to monetary matters. The CSSF was established in 1998 as the authority for the prudential supervision of the financial sector, and also incorporated the capacities of the Trading Commissioner.
These documents, which include information on the supervision of credit institutions and market operators; legislative and statistical developments in the financial sector; and the practice and supervision of financial markets, are now available at the National Archives.
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