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Euroshareholders

As part of BETTER FINANCE and through the EuroVote platform, Euroshareholders represents the interest of individual shareholders and seeks to improve corporate governance in the European Union.

EuroInvestors

BETTER FINANCE represents individual investors other than shareholders and keeps a close eye on crucial developments in terms of sustainable finance and the development of a Capital Markets Union.

EuroFinUse

BETTER FINANCE represents all other users of financial services across the European Union and works to improve horizontal issues such as supervision, enforcement and investor education.

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ESMA appoints a new Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has published the new list of members of ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroFinUse, EuroInvestors, EuroShareHolders, News, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

Herz selling of bankrupted bonds is probably the most absurd moment in Capital Markets History

After Herz, a car-rental company based in Florida,  filed for bankruptcy in May 2019, some bankers  "jokingly" said that they "hope ...
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Euobserver: “EU top court hits back after German ruling”

The EU's top court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), warned last Friday that the bloc's legal order could unravel ...
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The Guardian: “BlackRock to advise EU on environmental rules for banks”

BlackRock, one of the world’s largest investors in banks and fossil fuel companies, has been hired by the EU to ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, News, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Sustainabe Finance

F2iC: Etat et actionnaires, chacun doit rester dans son rôle et faire preuve de responsabilité

Depuis quelques jours, le gouvernement parle ouvertement de nationaliser éventuellement des entreprises afin d’assurer leur pérennité. La F2iC juge cette ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, EuroShareHolders, News, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

POLITICO: EU to push green finance, rules-based trade at international talks

POLITICO reports that on 10 April EU finance ministers approved the "terms of reference" in which they pledge "to raise ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroFinUse, EuroInvestors, EuroShareHolders, News, Sustainabe Finance

Employee Share Ownership (ESO) in times of Pandemic

BETTER FINANCE supports the appeal from EFES, the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership, to all European governments & institutions ...
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/ EuroInvestors, EuroShareHolders, Life Insurance & Pensions, News, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Sustainabe Finance

Funds Europe: ESMA finds retail investors still hit by costs

There is still a significant impact on investment returns for retail investors due to costs that are on average 40% ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, News, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

Coronavirus could save Europe, or sink it.

Since its founding in the 1950s, the European club has by definition been a post-national project, or “supranational” in Brussels ...
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Banks in pandemic turmoil: Capital relief is welcome, supervisory forbearance is not.

As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread around the world and emergency confinement measures have disrupted markets, bankers on both ...
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