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DG FISMA will be organising a roundtable on January 25th, 2024 at 10:00, where Aleksandra Maczynska, Acting Managing Director at BETTER FINANCE will address the panel on ‘Opportunities from a shorter settlement cycle in the EU’.

Brussels, 4 May  2020 – On 1 April 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its advice on “inducements” (and on the disclosure of costs and charges) under “MiFID II”, one of the main EU investor protection directives up for review this year, pushing the issue off into the future by encouraging the

In its response to ESMA’s survey on its collection of evidence on short-term pressure from the financial sector on corporations, BETTER FINANCE expressed concerns about the institution restricting its definition of a long-term investment to just a long timeframe. The association argued that “not only the duration of a holding is decisive to decide if

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a questionnaire which aims to gather evidence on potential short-term pressures on corporations stemming from the financial sector. On December 2019, the findings will be presented to the European Commission that will consider to follow up on them, which might include political actions. Find BETTER FINANCE’s response to

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) initiated a peer review and published a report that found that six national competent authorities (NCAs) need to enhance their supervision of Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS) operating with Efficient Portfolio Management Techniques (EPM). BETTER FINANCE thanks ESMA and welcomes the action taken on consumer protection: the

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

Research by BETTER FINANCE, published in 2015 in BETTER FINANCE’s briefing paper on the Capital Markets Union (CMU) initiative, debunked the myth that individual investors are short-term oriented. Now a survey carried out by S&P Dow Jones Indices (SPDJI), one of the world’s largest index providers has provided another angle to the debate, indicating that

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

This consultation, divided in two parts, addresses first the functioning of the ESG ratings market, its potential shortcomings, and the need for EU intervention. Second, it aims to inform the Commission on possible shortcomings in relation to the consideration of sustainability factors in credit ratings; on disclosures made by Credit Rating Agencies; and on the

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the proposal for the Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) put forward by the European Commission (EC) on 24 May 2023. We fully share the goals that the EC pursues with this initiative ‘rules that are coherent across legal instruments’; ‘adequate protection’‘bias-free advice and fair treatment’; ‘open markets with a variety of competitive and

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