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The document serves as BETTER FINANCE response to selected questions of ESMA’s discussion paper on the implications of digitalisation for investor protection under MiFID II. The document “Discussion Paper on MiFID II investor protection topics linked to digitalisation” provided by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) focuses on various aspects of digitalisation in the

After the 2023 AGM season and looking ahead to the 2024 season, BETTER FINANCE and its member organisations voice concerns about the erosion of shareholder rights. Inadequate rules for Virtual Annual General Meetings (AGMs) in some Member States highlight the need for broader engagement and representation frameworks for investors to truly benefit from digitalisation. The

Today, BETTER FINANCE, the leading advocate for European citizens as investors, savers, shareholders, and financial services users, unveils its manifesto ahead of the upcoming European Union elections in June 2024. Entitled “Sustainable Value for Money: Reconciling Individuals, Enterprises & The Planet,” the manifesto calls for a renewed emphasis on better outcomes for consumers, long-term investment,

⬇️ 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 is pleased to announce a new collaboration with SASV (Schweizerischer Anlegerschutzverein), the Swiss Investor Protection Association, further expanding its pan-European network. SASV is dedicated to promoting transparency within the Swiss capital market and advancing investor rights. This partnership with BETTER FINANCE aims to bolster the representation of Swiss individual investors and shareholders on

The Lithuanian Investors Association and BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, are organising the annual BETTER FINANCE International Investors’ Conference, scheduled to take place in Vilnius on May 30, 2024. The conference, titled “Vilnius 2024 | Shaping the Future of Finance,” will delve into various topics encompassing European and Baltic

The “Swiss Association for the Protection of Investors” (Schweizerische Anlegerschutzverein) is committed to transparency on the Swiss capital market and the promotion and enforcement of investor rights in Switzerland. Its purpose is to protect the interests of investors with regard to financial investments and to support them in the enforcement of their corporate and economic

We are pleased to share that Jesse Collin, from BETTER FINANCE member organization Finnish Share Promotion Foundation, has been selected as a member of ESMA’s Consultative Working Group in the Risk Standing Committee – Investor Trends and Research Working Group. The working group will focus on consumers, ESG and innovation related topics. For a full

Brussels, 13 October 2023 — BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, in collaboration with IVA – the Austrian Shareholder Association, is pleased to announce that the International Investors Conference at the Vienna Stock Exchange and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) got off to a great start this morning. Keynote Carmine di Noia, Director

On 23 March, MEPs Isabel Benjumea and Stéphanie Yon-Courtin addressed the Global Money Week webinar on “Investor Education in times of High Inflation, Financial Repression & Market Volatility” jointly organised by BETTER FINANCE and EFAMA. Please find their respective full speeches below. Excerpts: Isabel Benjumea: “Investor education is a key tool for the completion of

BetterFinance Videos Exclusion vs. Engagement: Façonner un avenir durable avec vos investissements [French] Engage to counter Greenwashing! – [in English] Investing In Funds 101 – How To Invest In Funds? (English version) Stop the Capital Guarantee Scam & Get the PEPP Pension You Deserve Pourquoi investir en actions? BETTER FINANCE 10 Priorities for the Next

La educación financiera es una herramienta altamente eficaz para poder dar a conocer los productos y servicios ofrecidos por el sector financiero. Ser consumidores críticos y responsables precisa del conocimiento de las ventajas y desventajas de los servicios contratados. En este sentido, los jóvenes precisan de una especial protección en relación con los servicios financieros.

La digitalización del sistema financiero y la velocidad con la que cambian los productos financieros unido a la escasa formación de las personas mayores ha hecho de este colectivo un blanco fácil de grandes fraudes y abusos. Causados en muchos casos, por el exceso de confianza en las entidades financieras.

All financial education initiatives Sustainable finance education initiatives Pan-European Organizations ➡️ My Fair Money - myfairmoney.eu- is a free, independent, non-profit pan-European platform active in several EU member states, dedicated to assisting individual investors in considering sustainability and making investments aligned with their values.

Investor education programmes are one of the most important parts of helping citizens make good decisions about their savings. As one of the 10 key financial policy priorities for 2019 – 2024, BETTER FINANCE wants to promote investor education as the key to the success of a real CMU. This means to provide basic financial

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On Friday 11 October BETTER FINANCE hosted a great interactive Financial Education session at BETTER FINANCE Headquarters in Brussels with final-year Finance and Insurance students of the Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (@HOWEST) looking into FinancialLiteracy, FinTech & RoboAdvice!  

ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, is organising the Investor Education Day on 30 October, looking at the importance of financial literacy, recent developments in financial education research and policy, best practices and how to best evaluate and measure the effectiveness of financial education initiatives. Speakers and panelists at the event include Eleni Tampaki,

EuroFinUse participates to the workshop organised by the European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services on ‘Crowdfunding: Untapping its potential, reducing the risks’ on 3 June 2013. Questions will address Crowdfunding in Europe: What drives its growth and what are the obstacles to it? Can it help to fill the financing gap for small firms

PRIIP Key Information Document – A regulation to enable investors to compare financial products and make informed decisions

Effective date: January 10, 2024 Update privacy preferences BETTER FINANCE ("us", "we", or "our") operates the https://betterfinance.eu website (the "Service"). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. We use your data to

World Investor Week (WIW) is a week-long, global campaign promoted by IOSCO to raise awareness about the importance of investor education and protection and highlight the various initiatives of securities regulators in these two critical areas. From 2-8 October 2017, IOSCO securities regulators and other IOSCO members on six continents will provide a range of

Following the Workshop on Crowdfunding organized in June 2013, attended by Guillaume Prache of EuroFinUse, the European Commission launched a consultation inviting stakeholders to share their views about Crowdfunding. This emerging alternative form of financing removes the middleman by pooling small amounts of capital from a large number of individuals and putting these investors in

EuroFinUse published a position paper on Crowdfunding, a very important emerging trend in financial services. Financial services users, savers and retail investors are not opposed to innovation, particularly with regard to the emergence of Crowdfunding, which could actually dramatically improve the delivery of retail financial services, provided the EU regulators find an adequate user protection

XI International Convention of Independent Financial Advisers (CIFA) Forum on 24th to 26th April 2013  in Monaco. The Forum aims at tackling the overarching question if the world banking system can be reformed. A variety of panels, seminars and workshops are foreseen over the two days event, and EuroFinUse will represent the point of view

The European Commission proposed a regulation to establish an EU programme to support two non-profit organisations, Finance Watch and BETTER FINANCE, for the 2017-2020 period. The programme’s overall budget will amount to a maximum of €6 million during that period, with a maximum 60% co-funding rate. Thanks to these EU grants, BETTER FINANCE will be

Financial products and services in Europe have a bad rep. Not only do “investment products, private pension and securities” persistently rank as the worst of all 31 consumer markets according to the annual EU Consumer Scoreboard1, these markets also lag considerably behind others in terms of cross-border trade, thereby severely limiting competitiveness. In short, financial

EuroFinUse welcomes the workshop organized by the European Commission on this very important emerging trend in financial services. EuroFinUse also thanks the Commission to invite a retail user representative to the speakers table. Financial services users, savers and retail investors are not opposed to innovation, particularly with regard to the emergence of Crowdfunding, which could

The resources are aimed to inform on consumer credits, loans and other financial services legislations.

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the Delegated act obligations for certain large undertakings to publish non-financial information. The rules set out in the delegated act clarify and allow for the translation of the technical screening criteria of the Climate Delegated Act (and the future Environmental Delegated Act) into quantitative economic performance indicators that will need to be

“Behavioural finance experts [at Oxford Risk] have found financial advisers can give “remarkably different” advice from each other to the same clients based on factors including sleep or how long since the adviser last ate.” They said that recommendations “were closer to totally random than totally consistent” and were, furthermore, dependent on advisors’ personal characteristics

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BETTER FINANCE was mentioned in an article made by the newspaper Déontofi concerning the life insurance in Europe. Read the full article in french here. 

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The EU has been working on a framework for third-pillar personal pension products (PPPs) for quite some time now. In July 2012, the Commission requested the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) to provide technical advice to develop an EU Single Market for personal pension schemes. In February 2014, EIOPA delivered a preliminary report.

In a recent Financial Times article, Guillaume Prache, Senior advisor at BETTER FINANCE, criticizes the use of Article 8 funds in sustainable investing. He argues that increasing the minimum sustainable investment percentage in these funds is ineffective and prone to greenwashing. These funds often oversimplify sustainability as mere ‘green activities’ and predominantly use an exclusion

The Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) started applying in March 2021 and requires financial market participants and financial advisers to disclose at entity and product levels how they integrate sustainability risks and principal adverse impacts in their processes at both entity and product levels. It also introduces additional product disclosures for sustainable financial products making