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On Wednesday, 7 June 2023, the European Commission will be hosting in Brussels the annual Joint Conference on European Financial Integration, organised with the European Central Bank (ECB). Guillaume Prache, BETTER FINANCE’s Managing Director, will give a speech on The consumer perspective on Banking Union and Capital Market Union. More information and registration

In a late bid to address soaring inflation in the Euro area, the European Central Bank (ECB) increased interest rates for the first time in 11 years in July 2022, raising its main rate to 0 percent after eight years of negative rates, and reaching 0,75% today. Notwithstanding, Eurozone inflation hit a new record high

The European Central Bank (ECB)’s new monetary policy is a positive step, but it needs more ambition to tackle its climate problem, warns a group of European lawmakers, environmental activists and economists.   Scientists warn us again and again: climate change is accelerating. Preliminary findings from the IPCC raise the alarm on the extremely worrying

“It is the innate conservation of the people that has kept our money good in spite of the fantastic tricks which financiers play – and which they cover up with high technical terms. The people are on the side of sound money. They are so unalterably on the side of sound money that it is

The European Union’s auditors are doubling down their fight with the European Central Bank, citing three occasions on which it denied access to crucial documents. The ECA asked the European Parliament and the EU member states to take its side on this conflict ensuring that any documents that they deem necessary could be obtained. According

In last week’s extensive article entitled Pressures on Slovenia, Which Are Not Discussed Publicly (www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/pritiski-na-slovenijo-o-katerih-se-na-glas-ne-govori-81803.html), the leading newspaper (Delo) disclosed the continuous and ever greater pressures on Slovenia to withdraw from the investigation of these acts, despite reasonable grounds for suspecting that in the fall of 2013 the then heads of the Bank of Slovenia

After a confusing few weeks, Monday`s Eurogroup meeting announced that Spain`s Economy Minister Luis de Guindos is set to be the new vice-president of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board (ECB EB). Following a face-off with Irish central banker Phillip Lane and intense lobbying by Spanish PM Rajoy, Mr Lane`s pull-out of the race on

The report by Corporate Europe Observatory (CE) on the external advisory groups to the European Central Bank (ECB) concludes that a very large proportion of its counselling on monetary policy comes from ‘representatives of some of the most influential global financial corporations’. The news item published today by CE summarizes its report findings, drawing the

In 2012, Mario Draghi vowed “ to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro”. Five years later, it is not a question of whether a new kind of Outright Monetary Transactions programme could save the euro, but rather a question of democratic legitimacy. In its report “ Two sides of the same coin? Independence

At the end of 2013, at the occasion of the publication of its yearly report on the real return of pension savings, BETTER FINANCE warned of the risk of a disastrous eradication of European savings across the board. Nearly two and a half years later and the warning goes unheeded, with the European Central Bank

The European Central Bank (ECB) has been accused by 200 Italian investors of violating its “equal” creditor status in the Greek debt restructuring. A group of Italian investors is claiming damages worth more than € 12mn from the ECB over its purported unfair role and preferential treatment in Greece’s debt deal which allegedly resulted in considerable

The European Commission has issued the Delegated Act on the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) to enhance transparency in sustainability reporting by companies. However, it faces criticism for weakening key aspects of the initial proposal by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) and neglecting vital concerns. Critics

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.

[Archived: The Survey is now Closed] It’s all about retail shareholder democracy in Europe! Did you try to vote (or did you successfully vote) at Shareholders Meetings of EU Companies in 2022? If not, there is still time, AGMs of companies are still ongoing. • Let us know your experience: Survey Open, until 10 September

On 14 April F2iC – one of BETTER FINANCE’s French member organisations – issued a press release arguing that the vote of shareholders, as the true owners of a company, should be binding without a company being able to use dilatory maneuvers to circumvent it. The press release follows the rejection by Stellantis’ shareholders of

Dutch foundation to enable assertion of claims against EY Deutschland and EY Global – at no cost and risk-free. Amsterdam | Düsseldorf | Frankfurt, 06 April 2022 – Wirecard AG’s bankruptcy is likely one of the biggest economic scandals in German history. Within no time it became clear that the high-tech hopes for online payments

Lately, many shareholders in public limited companies have turned to the PanSlovenian Shareholders’ Association (VZMD) and stated that they have received various letters and very strange offers from IGOR ŠTEMBERGER, the CEO and owner of ILIRIKA bornz-posredniška družba, d.d. (a brokerage company). In certain cases, the offered prices for shares were extremely low. In others, they offered shareholders shares of the company ILIRIKA MOJA

The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA issued a consultation paper setting out the proposed Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) setting out the content and presentation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). BETTER FINANCE welcomed the consultation and supports the proposed approach amending the existing Regulatory Technical Standards for the Sustainable disclosure

BETTER FINANCE strongly supports the goals of the new initiative on Sustainable Corporate Governance launched by the European Commission in order to reconcile economic growth, social progress, corporate governance and environmental protection, which is a vital and very urgent necessity. But this has to be based on the right assumptions. This press release further details

BETTER FINANCE issued a Joint Letter regarding the European Commission’s initiative on Sustainable Corporate Governance. This communication asserts that leading European associations share a common perspective on the upcoming initiatives. Alongside BETTER FINANCE, co-signatories are EuropeanIssuers, ecoDa, European Family Businesses (EFB), Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), Invest Europe, SMEunited.

BETTER FINANCE members UK Shareholders’ Association and ShareSoc (UK Individual Shareholders Society) published a letter expressing disappointment in the news that the UK government is abandoning some of its reforms to accounting standards: It is difficult to overstate the disappointment of investors, and other users of corporate information, at the news that the UK government

Retail investors are increasingly concerned about the impact of their investment decisions on society and the environment. In recent years, European Union (EU) institutions have amended the legislation regarding the distribution of retail investment products by investment firms–the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II)–and related delegated legislation and guidelines to define how investment firms

The draft Regulation on ESG ratings proposed by the European Commission in June 2023 aims to establish a framework and tackle structural issues by combating possible conflicts of interests, imposing better transparency in the rating processes, and introducing an authorisation and supervision system for ESG rating providers (for both EU and non-EU entities). Although commendable,

KBC Against Small Savers? The CEO of the Belgian bank, KBC, has expressed criticism regarding the tax advantage granted to one-year government bonds. However, a more pressing concern lies in understanding why KBC, along with the majority of Belgian banks, offers less than 1% interest on savings for small one-year savers while being able to

BETTER FINANCE calls for restricting “dark” capital market venues to REAL Large-in-scale (LIS) trades, i.e., of more than €100k each, to really prevent them from dealing with “retail” orders. Current Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) proposals “surreal” and don’t respond to citizens’ questions. A real-time pre-trade Consolidated Tape (CT) of equity order books will put

BETTER FINANCE’s answer to the European Commission (EC) consultation on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings and sustainability factors in credit ratings aims to inform on concerns about the functioning of the ESG ranking market developed by commercial data providers. This agenda pertains to the renewed sustainable finance strategy adopted in July 2021 by the

Last week, the fund industry warned that “the EU is putting the interests of exchanges over investors”. A letter from EFAMA to the EU Authorities regarding the reform of EU rules on capital markets (“MIFIR Review” in EU jargon) opposes the compensation of securities exchanges for communicating their trade data to “dark” competitors and labels

BETTER FINANCE Member, VZMD (The Pan-Slovenian Shareholders’ Association), disputes the decision of MERCATOR General meeting allowing for an (unnecessary) recapitalisation by swapping a part of the debt which is due to the bankrupt AGROKOR (transferred to the FORTENOVA GROUP) and is thus paving the way to squeeze out the remaining 1284 minority shareholders. Last week,

AEMEC, one of the Spanish member organisations of BETTER FINANCE, expresses concerns about the negative impact on individual shareholders of Spanish electricity companies of new tax measures targetting those companies currently being considered by the Spanish authorities. Please read the full press release in Spanish here. The English version can be found here.

4 December 2020 – BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce the affiliation of a new member organisation in Greece. HELINAS, the Hellenic Investors Association, is a Non-Governmental Organisation established in 2017 in Athens that is working to uphold investor rights. It is also the leader in shareholder activism in Greece and represents individual and institutional

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