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This morning the EC released: 1. The Proposal for a Regulation on European Crowdfunding Services for Business. It: establishes a one-stop-shop access to the EU market and therefore helps crowdfunding platforms in overcoming the barriers they face operating cross-border; provides tailored rules for European crowdfunding services providers covering both investment-based and lending-based business models; gives

On 24 July 2013, the European Commission submitted a proposal for a Regulation on Multilateral Interchange Fees (MFIs), “the fees that banks charge retailers for processing shoppers’ payments”. This year in April, the European Parliament voted in favour of amendments to the proposal, capping interchange fees at 0.2% of transaction value for debit cards and

The European Commission today published its long-awaited proposal on the digital euro, marking a significant milestone in the digitalisation of public money. The document sets the stage for a democratic debate, as the project moves from its investigation phase by the European Central Bank to the chambers of the European Parliament and the Council. Cash,

A loan (credit) is “non-performing” when it’s either over 90 days overdue or unlikely to be reimbursed by the client (business or consumer). In this case, credit institutions (e.g., banks) can resort to one of the three following recourses: either “work it out” with the customer, e.g., grant a moratorium (postponement), restructure the repayment, discount

European Commission and MEPs warn regulator over watering down Priips performance scenarios decried as misleading EU lawmakers and regulators are at loggerheads over how to reform wildly misleading fund performance disclosures, dealing a blow to fund managers and consumer groups hoping for a reprieve from the much-maligned rules. […] Better Finance, an advocacy group representing

The challenge of an aging population is getting more and more acute every day. On the one hand, the European Commission states that close to one out of five people over 65 in the European Union are at risk of poverty and that women are not sufficiently protected with regard to their rights to an

We are alarmed that for the second time in less than two years the Republic of Slovenia moves to curtail the options available to minority shareholders to mitigate the burden of costs imposed on them by financial intermediaries. Specifically, the proposed Paragraph 10 of Article 296 of the Market in Financial Instruments Act (ZTFI-1) targets

On 17 July EIOPA, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority announced the new composition of its two “stakeholder groups”: the Insurance and Reinsurance one (IRSG), and the Occupational Pensions one (OPSG). BETTER FINANCE thanks and congratulates EIOPA for successfully “seeking to strengthen representation of consumers”, especially in the OPSG where up to now BETTER

Following the Workshop on Crowdfunding organized in June 2013, attended by Guillaume Prache of EuroFinUse, the European Commission launched a consultation inviting stakeholders to share their views about Crowdfunding. This emerging alternative form of financing removes the middleman by pooling small amounts of capital from a large number of individuals and putting these investors in

On Wednesday, December 17, the European Parliament (ECON Committee) and the Council agreed on the proposal for capping card transaction fees. This agreement is of a political nature, the legal text still has to be formally approved by both institutions early in 2015. The text will then be voted on by the full Parliament. Card

BETTER FINANCE already raised the issue that only a limited number of larger SMEs are likely to benefit from a Capital Markets Union. As such, introducing an EU framework enabling crowdfunding platforms to provide their services across the Internal Market should be beneficial for both investors and SMEs. However, BETTER FINANCE remains skeptical regarding the

BETTER FINANCE agrees that in order to avoid legal uncertainty and the multiplication of legal requirements for crowdfunding platforms, MiFID II should not apply to crowdfunding providers who have been authorized as crowdfunding providers under the ECSP.

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