The centre-left political group in the European Parliament, the Socialists and Democrats (S&D), are leading a proposal to reject the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) Quick Fix in tomorrow’s vote in the European Parliament’s full plenary. Based on the S&D’s latest press release on the matter, Finnish MEP and S&D negotiator on the MiFID Quick-Fix
“Es el sentido de conservación innato de la gente el que ha mantenido nuestro dinero a flote a pesar de las fantásticas artimañas que las financieras hacen – y las cuales cubren con tecnicismos y términos rebuscados. La gente está del lado de una moneda sólida. Están tan inalterablemente del lado de una moneda sólida,
“The European Union’s watchdog has ruled the European Commission failed to adequately consider conflicts of interest when it appointed BlackRock Investment Management, the world’s second largest investor in fossil fuels, to advise on environmental regulations for the banking sector.” […] “In the report published this week, O’Reilly concluded the Commission needed to better police conflict
BETTER FINANCE and its member, the Lithuanian Investors Association (LIA) took note of the Lithuanian Parliament report shedding light on the responsibility of major Scandinavian banks in the 2009-2010 financial crisis in the Baltic States. In Lithuania, where GDP fell by almost 15% as of 2009, the parliamentary investigation reflects LIA’s position on the role
On November 6, Better Finance´s Slovenian Member Organisation, the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders Association (VZMD), sent an appeal to the Slovenian Government regarding its 6th Anti-Corona Package (PKP6) to warn them about the risk of including a controversial provision that would exclude the possibility for shareholders and small savers to contest resolutions made at virtual and electronic
During a vote in the European Parliament’s committee on economic affairs on a proposed quick fix to the so-called Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), the centre-left S&D party abstained. With this proposal, the European Commission aimed to make some amendments to the MiFID regime, in order to address the impact of the Covid-19 crisis
“It is the innate conservation of the people that has kept our money good in spite of the fantastic tricks which financiers play – and which they cover up with high technical terms. The people are on the side of sound money. They are so unalterably on the side of sound money that it is
Following the fallout from the Wirecard AG scandal BETTER FINANCE’s German member organisation, DSW, the leading shareholder association in Germany, launched an information campaign for duped investors, including a series of Q&As and a press release to inform abused investors about the next steps. Wirecard investors are entitled to register their claims in the insolvency
With the entire world in the grip of an unprecedented pandemic, governments around the world struggle to bring the devastating Coronavirus under control, save lives and alleviate overburdened health systems. Unfortunately, the necessary health, quarantine and social distancing measures implemented to fight the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, are taking their toll on economies around the world.
| UPDATE 12 October 2020: Wirecard investors can now register their claims to participate in insolvency proceedings | After publishing a series of Q&As for duped individual investors and pension savers in light of the outrageous Wirecard AG scandal, BETTER FINANCE’s German member organisation, DSW, the leading shareholder association in Germany, issued a press release today