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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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Enlightenment now: next Sunday please vote for Europe

Enlightenment now: next Sunday please vote for Europe

“It’s true that political salesmen can market a mythology and iconography that entice people into privileging a religion, ethnicity, or ...
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ShareSoc Informer – Editorial by Mark Northway

The climate change lobby has been active for decades, and the supporting data has slowly become more significant and more ...
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/ Blog entry, EuroShareHolders, Sustainabe Finance

Employee share ownership: the single most powerful action to reach the CMU goals

The EU CMU project aims to rebalance the funding for the EU economy from banks to capital markets. The key ...
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/ Blog entry, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, EuroShareHolders, Financial Education, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Sustainabe Finance

ESMA reinforces Benchmark Disclosure Requirements for UCITS

When the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated its Questions and Answers (Q&As) regarding the application of the Undertakings ...
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/ Blog entry, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, Supervision & Redress

The endorsement of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the European Union and the role of EFRAG

By Jean Medernach - The main role of EFRAG, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group, is to advise the European ...
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/ Blog entry, EuroFinUse, EuroInvestors, EuroShareHolders, Financial Reporting & Audit

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

A PEPP to provide pension adequacy through decent long-term returns and protect the purchasing power of the life savings of EU citizens

It is for this reason that BETTER FINANCE welcomes the proposal released by the European Commission in mid-2017 for the ...
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MIS-SELLING ON THE EP’S AGENDA – ECON STUDIES

Inspired to some extent from BETTER FINANCE’s 2017 Briefing Paper on mis-selling of financial products as well as its study ...
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WILLINGNESS OF EU MEMBER STATES CRUCIAL FOR ENDING DOUBLE TAXATION OF INVESTMENT INCOME WITHIN EU

At the beginning of February 2018, in support of the Capital Markets Union initiative, the European Commission released a Code ...
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NEW PRIIPS KID RULES VIOLATE MIFID II PROVISIONS AT THE DETRIMENT OF INVESTORS

One of the objectives of the MiFID II regulation is to improve consumer protection in general and, more particularly, to ...
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