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A revamped platform facilitating proxy voting now comprises over 1500 European companies. The financial crisis of 2008 revealed significant deficiencies in corporate governance, partly due to a lack of shareholder engagement. To this day individual investors continue to face many obstacles in exercising their voting rights and actively engage in the governance of the companies

 

BETTER FINANCE, as a representative of the users of financial services, develops projects and campaigns that advocate and defend the interests of end-users as well as other stakeholders. On this page, the user can find on this page the actions that BETTER FINANCE undertakes to fulfil this objective, as well as information and support tools. Some of the projects

BETTER FINANCE was quoted in a recent Reuters article on the ongoing discussion surrounding the European Union’s plans to enhance consumer protections in the financial services sector through its retail investment package. Notably, the EU aims to introduce ‘value for money’ safeguards as well as a ban on “inducements” for non-advised sales of investment products,

The practice of greenwashing, or marketing a product as environmentally friendly, when in fact basic environmental standards have not been met, can take many forms including misleading labels and unsubstantiated/vague claims, meaningless catchwords, etc. with the aim of making a product or company seem greener and more socially responsible than it really is, amounting to

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Definitions are constantly evolving around the key concepts of sustainability but jurisdictions, regulators, and international organisations around the globe agree on the common elements of each of the below.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY What is Alternative/Online Dispute Resolution (ADR/ODR)? Non-judicial procedures through which consumers (for our constituency, “retail” financial services users) can solve disputes with professionals and obtain redress for their rights. These are generally referred to as alternative dispute resolution (ADR) or out-of-court settlement of consumer claims. Cases are (or should be) handled by independent

BETTER FINANCE’s Managing Director, Guillaume Prache, participated to the last episode (Are consumers being mis-sold investment funds?) of the podcast Fair and Square, part by Fideres. Fideres is an international economic consulting firm that specializes in investigating corporate and financial wrongdoing. In this episode, the programme delves into issues such as disguised index funds (closet indexing), false

The European Union presented its new plan to renovate the structure of its stock markets. It’s the third wave of reforms since the project was launched six years ago. The EU has been working on the creation of a capital markets union (CMU), which has been affected by the UK’s departure after Brexit. One of

The fifth edition of World Investor Week, an initiative of IOSCO, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, will take place From Monday 4 October to Sunday 10 October. World Investor Week 2021 aims to promote financial education and increase investor protection and will shine a spotlight on a range of initiatives in this area by