Already two years down the line and the 10th round of TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) negotiations last week nevertheless had a distinct air of déjà vu about them, as they once again broke down over the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provision of the proposed treaty. But what is all the fuss really
By Arnaud Houdmont, Chief Communications Officer “86% of investment managers stunk in 2014” “Active Management Funds Underperform Over Almost All Time Frames” “Epic Fail: Another Dismal Year for Active Management” “Can anything save active management?” These are just a few of the latest headlines confining the “active management” of investment fund portfolios to the dustbin
By Arnaud Houdmont, Chief Communications Officer European Union lawmakers plan to significantly restrict high-frequency trading with new rules that would rein in high-frequency trading (HFT) and tighten up rules related to the use of so-called dark pools. High-frequency traders use software that allows trading at lightning speed. Whereas large firms have access to such technology, critics
On March 24 Guillaume Prache, Managing Director at BETTER FINANCE, spoke at the EFAMA Conference on “The Future of Financial and Investor Education in Europe” on the role of the European institutions and the finance industry in promoting financial education. With the aim of developing new common objectives and policy priorities, the conference provided a substantial debate
Thank you very much for the kind invitation from QED to put forward the users’ views. My intervention will be short and not exhaustive; I will focus on those points of higher relevance for financial services users. First of all, I would like to refer some brief words to BETTER FINANCE: – European Federation of
Around 400 financial industry representatives and stakeholders from all over Europe attended the Eurofi seminar in Athens at the end of March 2014 to exchange views on the main regulatory developments at the EU and global levels impacting the financial industry. The debates focused on the proposals currently on the table aiming to improve the resilience of
By Arnaud Houdmont, Chief Communications Officer Only since the eruption of the financial crisis in 2007, and the outrageously expensive bailouts of banks and economies, has the public at large started understanding to what extent their countries are utterly indebted. It has become clear that nearly every government in Europe and in the United States has