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⬇️ Read or download BETTER FINANCE’s National Key Priorities for 2024-2029 below. ⬇️ Let’s harness the Capital Markets Union’s (CMU) potential to benefit our citizens as financial consumers, retail investors and pension savers, as well as our planet, economy, and future generations. This will ensure Europe’s prosperity and security in a rapidly changing geopolitical environment.

⬇️ Read or download BETTER FINANCE’s Individual Investors’ Key Priorities for 2024-2029 below. ⬇️ Let’s harness the Capital Markets Union’s (CMU) potential to benefit our citizens as financial consumers, retail investors and pension savers, as well as our planet, the economy, and for future generations. This will ensure Europe’s prosperity and security in a rapidly

BETTER FINANCE supports FSUG’s COP28 statement, calling on the European Commission to ensure the green transition burden isn’t solely on citizens and communities. ⬇️ Read the full statement below ⬇️

BETTER FINANCE, a leading advocate for investor rights and financial transparency, has released a position paper on transition investing, emphasizing its importance in achieving climate neutrality in the EU. The paper stresses the need for credible, transparent transition plans to avoid greenwashing, advocating for structured engagement over divestment in carbon-intensive industries to drive the shift

Transition investing refers to capital needed to improve economic activities, that are not environmentally friendly at present. Such capital supports the development of innovation and infrastructure, enabling current activities to eventually achieve climate neutrality. The European Commission’s release of the transition finance ‘Recommendation’[1] emphasised the importance of such investments for Europe’s pursuit of environmentally conscious

Opening Speech - Carmine Di Noia, Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)Video Address - Othmar Karas, Vice President of the European ParliamentVideo Address - Sirpa Pietikäinen, Member of the European ParliamentVideo Address - Eero Heinäluoma, Member of the European ParliamentOeKB SlidesVideo Address - Sergiy Tsivkach, CEO, UkraineInvestSlides -

BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, welcomed the European Commission’s launch of a Retail Investor Strategy in September 2020, as a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a capital markets Union that works for people. Nevertheless, the legislative proposal, despite incorporating certain positive advancements, falls short of fulfilling several

In a letter to BETTER FINANCE, Commissioner McGuinness reconfirmed her commitment to the key objectives of the Retail Investor Strategy. BETTER FINANCE is also encouraged to read that Ms McGuinness reemphasises the clear and very appropriate objectives of the Retail Investor Strategy as spelled out in the European Commission’s September 2020 CMU Action Plan: Coherent

Research presentation by 2° Investing Initiative (2DII Shifting the Trillions: the transition needs to be massive and transformative Still, the funding gaps can be put in perspective with household savings Private investors can contribute to the transition by having impact Investors impact depends on the theory of change and external factors All impact mechanisms don’t have

This document provides you with key information about this Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP). It is not marketing material. The information is required by law to help you understand the nature, risks, costs, potential gains and losses of this personal pension product and to help you compare it with other PEPPs

This new statement follows on an earlier case where VZMD, the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders Association, opposed pressure on its ‘Share SUPPORT’ programme by a brokerage industry  player, harming the minority, individual shareholders it aims to represent. Today, VZMD pointed to further shortcomings and misleading claims made by the ATVP (The Slovenian Securities Market Agency) against its

Summary: General comment The review of the MiFID II framework is timely and should be coordinated with the other ongoing actions and policy areas, i.e. PRIIPs and the work done in the Forum on the Future of the Capital Markets Union. In addition, to ensure a level playing field, the European Commission should also adopt

Emerging Financial Technology (Fintech) has a, seemingly endless, potential to drive efficiency gains and the disintermediation of financial services, thereby bringing about decreased transaction costs. Keeping in mind that Fintech so far remains relatively unchartered territory, regulatory measures and their effects on the future development of the industry make for heated discussions. Currently, as stated

On the day it becomes directly applicable, the long-awaited revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) gives birth to a new and healthier environment for financial services and instruments across the Single Market. Although only 11 out of 28 Member States have implemented the Directive so far, the past two years have been a

MiFID II remains the main topic in terms of EU financial legislation despite a possible delay in implementing new rules covering European financial markets according to Jake Green, partner in the financial regulatory group dealing with corporate practice at law firm Ashurst in London. Green told Markets Media: “Some buyside clients are holding back preparations

The European Union’s initiative to create a Capital Markets Union in Europe is currently stuck in a quagmire of political debate. However, according to Paul Richards, head of regulatory policy at ICMA: "the timetable for implementing the Commission’s Action Plan on Capital Markets Union makes it clear that progress can be expected in the EU

In November, EIOPA delivered results of its EU-wide insurance stress test which was designed to assess the resilience and identify vulnerabilities of this sector. Some have called this test a wake-up call for managers of insurance companies who are now looking at options how to best adapt to Solvency II – the new and stricter

Following the Financial Times article on “Probes into forex trading” by Daniel Schäfer and Caroline Binham, Guillaume Prache, Managing Director EuroFinUse, showed his concerns regarding the lapse in public supervision , which has been going on far too long, in a letter to the newspaper. With a quadrillion dollars (that’s 1 followed by 15 zeros)

Two of BETTER FINANCE’s members, Manuel Pardos Vicente and Fernando Herrero Sáez de Eguilaz from ADICAE, were nominated on the 4th of March as candidates to the National Commission on Market Values in Spain, the regulatory body of the Spanish stock market. The Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) is the agency in charge

BETTER FINANCE welcomes this call for evidence on the EU financial regulatory framework and indeed agrees with the fact that it is necessary to introduce improvements in certain areas, and sometimes simplification and cohesion along with the „REFIT“ approach.

ESMA Consultation Paper Guidelines on certain aspects of the MiFID II suitability requirements. BETTER FINANCE highlights that the new concepts introduced by the recent regulatory amendments may be difficult to understand by individual, non-professional investors, creating the risk for them to avoid making a decision or making a wrong decision. In this sense, we suggest

INTRODUCTORY EXPLANATIONS (for non-professional readers) European Union (EU) authorities aim to improve the conditions of saving and investing in capital markets for EU households through several regulatory and supervisory actions. Currently, most of these initiatives stem from the recommendations of the High-Level Forum on the Future of the Capital Markets Union,[1] on which the European

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the initiative of ESMA to clarify certain aspects related to the application of the MiFID II provisions on the appropriateness test and requirements for execution-only services. In addition, BETTER FINANCE commends ESMA on adapting the Guidelines on suitability assessment for the appropriateness test as the two procedures are, to a certain extent,

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the introduction of requirements for firms providing investment advice and portfolio management to ask clients about their non-financial objectives and preferences. This is an important step forward for the integration of sustainability in the fiduciary duties of financial advisers. However, we recommend some specific amendments in order to avoid: green-washing practices in

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