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The Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) compromise currently on the table for a European Parliament vote blatantly disregards the interests of retail investors and the establishment of a competitive Capital Markets Union (CMU). Should Ms Yon-Courtin’s proposed compromise be approved by the ECON committee on 20th March and subsequently put to a plenary vote one month

BETTER FINANCE’s full Response to the Targeted Consultation on SRDs – Shareholder Rights Directives (SRD1 and SRD2) for the European Commission by the CSES — [15 December 2023]. BETTER FINANCE advocates for the enforcement of investors’ and shareholders’ rights, underscoring the pivotal role of engagement as a cornerstone within robust green transition plans and corporate

Aimed at certifying the most virtuous funds, the SRI label, which has just been reformed by the government, now excludes companies with new oil projects. Guillaume Prache denounces an ideological reform that risks favoring foreign oil and gas companies. The reform of France’s SRI (socially responsible investment) label, as announced by the French Ministry of

After Herz, a car-rental company based in Florida,  filed for bankruptcy in May 2019, some bankers  “jokingly” said that they “hope the company would sell a few hundred million worth of stock.” Unfortunately, it seems that this fit of sarcasm is slowly becoming a reality after judge Mary Walmarth ruled a bankruptcy court in favour of Herz, giving

In June 2018 the ECON committee of the European Parliament published a study titled “Subordinated Debt and Self-placement: Mis-selling of Financial Products”. After five years of very diverse interpretations and applications of so-called “burden sharing” in bank recovery and resolution, also known as bail-in of subordinated bank creditors, the European Parliament’s ECON Committee examined whether

In June 2018 the ECON committee of the European Parliament published a study titled “Subordinated Debt and Self-placement: Mis-selling of Financial Products”. After five years of very diverse interpretations and applications of so-called “burden sharing” in bank recovery and resolution, also known as bail-in of subordinated bank creditors, the European Parliament’s ECON Committee examined whether

BETTER FINANCE`s 2017 study on the Mis-selling of Financial Products put mis-selling on the radar of the EP, with five recent ECON studies referencing the study as well as quoting BETTER FINANCE`s extensive work on the subject. Also quoted was BETTER FINANCE`s  replication of the 2016 ESMA study on closet indexing. Although the fact that

Inspired to some extent from BETTER FINANCE’s 2017 Briefing Paper on mis-selling of financial products as well as its study into the issue of Closet Indexing at the beginning of the year, the European Parliament’s ECON committee has now commissioned studie into the mis-selling of financial products to European individual investors, looking at how and

Fully in line with BETTER FINANCE’s 2017 Briefing Paper on mis-selling of financial products as well as its study into the issue of Closet Indexing at the beginning of the year, the European Parliament’s ECON committee is now commissioning a study into the mis-selling of financial products to European individual investors, looking at how and

This paper tries to assess the regulatory and, more importantly, the supervisory (public enforcement) developments regarding the actual protection of savers, individual investors and mortgage borrowers since the 2008 financial crisis, in particular regarding the mis-selling of savings, investment and mortgage products.

The report should be of particular interest to anyone who wishes to look beyond national borders to how policymakers in other EU countries are dealing with similar issues in the areas of life insurance, non-life products (property, accident and health insurance) and old-age provision. The reports looks at questions pertaining to premium income, consumer complaints

BETTER FINANCE of course shares the view of MEP Sven Giegold that financial markets must serve consumers and end-users, and welcomes the European Parliament’s ECON Committee focus on the mis-selling of financial products. BETTER FINANCE experiences that the mis-selling of saving and investment products is a major issue of enforcement and supervision as several key

On January 22, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismissed the UK’s court challenge to the Short-Selling Regulation (SSR). In an action brought before the European Court of Justice in 2012, the UK claimed that ESMA’s powers to adopt emergency measures relating to the financial markets of the Member States in order to regulate or prohibit

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