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BETTER FINANCE provided an initial feedback to the EC’s plans to create a system for accessing financial data (FIDA) to boost digital financial services by promoting competition. We suggest carefully considering the risks and benefits of opening up a financial data market using based on contractual, industry-led ‘schemes.’ FIDA proposes a change that would make

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the horizontal and vertical dimensions represented in the objectives of the taxonomy. Furthermore, we would like to suggest expanding the horizontal dimension based on the promotion of gender equality which should not be based only on the gender pay gap but also on freedom of expression, assembly, etc.

BETTER FINANCE believes that the European Commission should not further diminish the ambition of ESRS. At the very least, there should be a set of mandatory disclosure requirements (such as GHG emissions) irrespective of materiality assessments made by companies.

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the amendments to the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (Art 8) in providing consistent methodologies and economic performance indicators that ensure financial and non-financial undertakings disclose the relevant taxonomy eligibility and alignment information.

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the European Commission’s WHT FASTER Proposal that has to potential to bring procedural progress in addressing longstanding obstacles to tax recovery for investors dealing with their cross-border investment income. We applaud an EU-wide framework to streamline withholding tax (WHT) refund modalities under common reporting, and support its digitalisation addressing the current hurdle

BETTER FINANCE, as an independent financial expertise center serving European financial services users, represents millions of individual investors in Europe who stand to benefit from the draft non-financial reporting Standards developed by EFRAG. BETTER FINANCE welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the draft Delegated Act (DA) by the European Commission concerning the European Sustainability

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the amendments to the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (Art 8) in providing consistent methodologies and economic performance indicators that ensure financial and non-financial undertakings disclose the relevant taxonomy eligibility and alignment information. In order to strengthen market transparency and encourage companies to green their activities and portfolios, it is crucial to have

BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s request for feedback on the review of the Listing Act – making public capital markets more attractive for EU companies and facilitating access to capital for SMEs. BETTER FINANCE welcomes the stated objectives of the listing act review for prospectus standardisation and streamlined IPO cost reduction, particularly for

A report published on Tuesday 31 May 2022 by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), confirms BETTER FINANCE’s findings that fund managers often don’t seem to act in the best interest of fund investors when it comes to securities lending. Three years after its first report,[1] BETTER FINANCE expanded on its research into securities

There are differences between intermediated or “packaged” investments (life insurance, funds, savings plans, etc.) and direct investments in capital markets (ETFs, bonds, shares). Several independent studies indicate that the higher the annual fees, the lower the average medium and long-term returns of investment products. Annual fees for intermediated products are much higher than those for direct savings in securities.   The impact of these fees in France has been especially significant for certain insurance

At FEE’s Roundtable on "How to improve the functioning of audit committees further" , which took place on 5 February, around a 100 participants including European policymakers, audit committee members, investors, professional accountants and auditors and regulators discussed further improvements of the functioning of audit committees to help identify and shape good practices. EuroFinuse President, Jella

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,

The new President of the European Commission refers to the European Green Deal as “Europe’s man-on-moon moment”. BETTER FINANCE strongly supports the Green Deal, the most important shift in European energy policy we have seen in the last two decades. But since the devil is in the detail, it raises the question whether the proposed

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

BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Financial Services Users, notes with concern that the panel on “relevant players in the market for long term capital” at the upcoming Conference by the European Commission and the Italian Presidency on the Capital Market Union, does not include any representatives of individual investors, although they are explicitly (and

In April 2015, Spanish MEP Soledad Cabezón took the issue of mortgage legislation and risky financial instruments in the EU, and focusing on Spain in particular, to the European Parliament Petitions Committee. Since the protection of consumer rights is a fundamental operating principle of the European Union, the matter is obviously raising eyebrows. Both the European Court of Justice and the Supreme Court in Spain already

The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics has been given a new responsability and will now also function as Product Information Centre for Pensions (PiA). The role of the PiA is to simulate the performance of Riester- and Rüruppensions and rate them in terms of risks and opportunities. The Bund der Versicherten welcomes this decision, as

On September 23 MEPs from the Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee met together with European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to debate the EU’s current priorities on the financial agenda including the banking union. Up for discussion were the practical details of setting up a single bank resolution system and fund, the upcoming bank balance

In its spring edition, Global Custodian published an article on how the EU is aiming at shedding a light at the calculation and measurement of investment transaction costs. EU financial regulations such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), the regulation on Packaged Retail Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIPs) or the European Shareholder Rights Directive

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