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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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Trading in the dark: more than half of European equities do not go through the stock market

Despite the attempts to channel equity trading to the “lit” markets, more than half of European stock is bought and ...
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/ Banking, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), CMU Barometer, EuroInvestors, Securities Markets & Trading

EU Review misses Key Issue on Key Disclosure docs

Earlier in February, the ESAs - the European Banking Authority, the European Securities and Markets Authority, and the European Insurance ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, Life Insurance & Pensions, News, Packaged Investment Products

Savers once again excluded from the governance of AMF

The Government, the National Assembly and the Senate just appointed members of the "College" of the AMF. The public authorities ...
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/ Blog entry, EuroFinUse, EuroInvestors, Supervision & Redress

230 stocks under liquidity threat from Brexit as obscure Mifid II rule strikes

Christian Voigt, a senior regulatory adviser at Fidessa, and former vice president at Deutsche Boerse has published a blog post ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, News, Securities Markets & Trading

EU charges eight banks over alleged government bond cartel

The European Union’s antitrust authority has sent a formal statement of objections to eight unnamed banks suspected of operating a ...
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/ Banking, EuroFinUse, EuroInvestors, Supervision & Redress

Brussels targets large index fund managers on ‘common ownership’

European lawmakers have taken aim at the influence of the largest index fund managers. Last week the European Parliament cited ...
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/ EuroShareHolders, News, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Investment returns reduced significantly by fees, ESMA finds

A report, presented by the pan-European financial regulator ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, shows a significant drain on ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, News, Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress

Jack Bogle (May 8, 1929 – January 16, 2019)

Jack Bogle founded the Vanguard Group in 1975 as a non-profit mutual fund company exclusively owned by its clients with ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, Financial Education, News, Sustainabe Finance

More ESG integration to achieve financial stability and higher returns?

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) will analyse the exposure of European pension funds’ to “ESG” factors in ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, Financial Reporting & Audit, Life Insurance & Pensions, News, Sustainabe Finance

EU Auditors Up Ante in Fight with ECB Over Document Access

The European Union’s auditors are doubling down their fight with the European Central Bank, citing three occasions on which it ...
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/ Banking, EuroFinUse, EuroInvestors, Financial Reporting & Audit, News