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Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024 | Time: 14h00 – 18h00 | Place: University Foundation, 11 Rue d’Egmont, 1000 Brussels PROGRAMME 13h30 – 14h00 | Registration & Coffee 14h00 – 14h10 | Welcome | Aleksandra Mączyńska, Acting Managing Director, BETTER FINANCE 14h10 – 14h30 | Keynote Speech | José Manuel Campa, Chair, European Banking Authority (EBA)

Factors influencing the number of new listings/IPOs in Sweden Paper presented to the Policy Committee of ecoDa, January 2022                                                                                                                   According to the EU Commission’s report “Primary and secondary equity markets in the EU” Sweden has had a unique development of the number of new listings/IPOs between 2010 and 2018 compared to all other member

On Tuesday, 19 September from 15:00 to 16:30 in the European Parliament in Brussels, a public hearing on the “New EU common system for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of tax abuse in the area of withholding taxes” will take place. The hearing aims to address the burdensome withholding tax refund procedures for

For its March Newsletter, DG FISMA (the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services, and Capital Markets Union) interviewed Alin Iacob, the new chairman of the Financial Services User Group (FSUG), and Board Member of BETTER FINANCE. Alin Iacob is also the chairman of the Association of Romanian Financial Users (AURSF). In the interview,

New Savers is a member of WFI World Federation of Investors, an independent, not-for-profit organization whose members are primarily national shareholders’ associations. WFI was formed to promote investor education and shareholder advocacy. WFI helps national shareholders associations and investor advocacy groups better serve their members. New Savers is an associate member of BETTER FINANCE.

Individual, non-professional (“retail”) investors are significantly demotivated or hampered from investing cross-border within the EU due to: The widespread de facto double taxation of investment income within the “Single Market” (for example the so-called Belgian-French Tax Treaty to avoid double taxation is in reality organizing the double taxation of Belgian residents holding shares of French-domiciled

From 15 June to 17 June, BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, and its Member Organisations gathered in Athens for their General Assembly and International Investors’ Conference, co-organised with Helinas, the Hellenic Investors Association. The meetings in Greece were also the occasion to elect a new Board. BETTER FINANCE is

BETTER FINANCE published a report in support of its response to the EC Consultation on the EU Strategy for Retail Investors, illustrating the current state of affairs, detailing how to attract and retain the participation of EU households in capital markets, and issuing policy recommendations. The EU needs a Capital Markets Union “That Works for

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

More than a year after the entry into force of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and of the Regulation on Key Information Document for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs KID), BETTER FINANCE sought the views and experience of its member associations and their individual members on the effectiveness of

Regulators are planning to hit nine of the biggest insurance companies with new safety rules which are tougher than the industry expected. The proposals are estimated to increase the capital requirements for unexpected losses by 10 percent on average. Insurers have attacked the plans of the G20’s Financial Stability Board, which oversees the new regime

BETTER FINANCE answer to the European Commission’s consultation to gather evidence for the PSD2 review and to inform its work on open finance. In the light of this informative consultation on open, BETTER FINANCE advocates that consumer data should not be retained beyond what is strictly necessary to provide the service and should then be

About our donation systems (Friends of Fund / TGE Network)BETTER FINANCE has been recognised as a public utility organisation by the belgian ‘King Baudouin Foundation’ (FRB/KBS), and is also part of the ‘Transnational Giving Europe’ (TGE) Network. You can make a general gift via: ◆ The “Friends of BETTER FINANCE Fund” (King Baudouin Foundation) [all

The Lithuanian Consumer Institute is a non-governmental non-profit organization and was established in 2000. The goals of the Lithuanian Consumer Institute include the protection of consumers’ economic and safety interests, education, training, consultation of consumers and professionals, promotion of fair commercial practices. Lietuvos Vartotojų Institutas is a full member of BETTER FINANCE.

The lack of collective redress in Europe remains an issue for the European finance industry, especially from the perspective of investors and shareholders (see BETTER FINANCE paper here). Given that procedural law falls under the exclusive competence of Member States (still), there is no harmonising legislation fostering cross-border class-action lawsuits in Europe. As became apparent

There is nothing like the aftermath of a double financial crisis to motivate stakeholders to rethink models, concepts and strategies in investments, especially when there are signs that the next crisis could very well be triggered by the finance industry itself (see more here). Dark clouds are building up on the horizon, indicative of the

“Whistle-blowing“ is one of the most important tools to fight singular or structural breaches of law in EU Member States.[1] According to the European Commission, whistle-blowing is a form of reporting or disclosing acts or omissions that ‘represent a threat or harm to the public interest (such as fraud, corruption, tax evasion, threats to public

In light of the Brexit negotiations and the finance industry’s concerns regarding their outcome, HM Treasury has released its revised version of the 2013 Investment Management Strategy (IMS), hedging for a negative scenario.  The working paper aims at providing the necessary proposals and impetus for the British Government’s efforts to secure not only a safety

The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, followed in Europe by the sovereign debt crisis, mainly consisted in the adoption of new, more stringent economic and market discipline instruments for the Eurozone Member States.  On top of that, crisis-response mechanisms have been put in place, such as the EDIS, the Single Resolution Fund,

Following similar announcement by the Banque de France and the Chinese Central Bank, the European Banking Authority warned today of the risks consumers run by using virtual currencies such as Bitcoin. In a formal warning on a series of risks deriving from buying holding or trading virtual currencies such as Bitcoins, the European Banking Authority

[A provisional version of the publication was available in January 2024. The document has been updated to the final March 2024 version] The report by CFA Institute and BETTER FINANCE critically reviews the EU’s listing rules, targeting reforms to improve public market accessibility for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It aims to foster debate amidst

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