Portugal and Italy mark a difficult Bank Resolution start
The Bank Resolution Recovery Directive (BRRD) and Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) aim to end taxpayer-financed bank bailouts, by bailing in ...
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Closet Indexing Finally on ESMA’s Radar?
For years now the active management of investment fund portfolios has suffered negative criticism with financial headlines relegating the failing ...
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Launch of the Green Paper on retail financial services. Reaction by BETTER FINANCE
Juan Manuel Viver, Policy Officer at BETTER FINANCE, reacts to the launch by Lord Hill of the Green Paper on ...
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Urgent Need for Stricter Oversight of National Financial Supervisory Authorities
The Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) recently appointed a new non-executive member to its board. Gabriela Boca acknowledges in her ...
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The Real Business of Finance
Already in 2012 he reminded policy makers of the fact that stock markets exist to provide companies with equity capital ...
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FT: Can banks make honest mistakes?
Sergio Ermotti, the chairman of UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, has made a bold statement. “It is ok to take risks ...
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Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive extended to non EU countries
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has recently decided to extend the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) to ...
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Peer-to-peer lending – beware the risks
Savers who want to escape the high interest rates that banks charge for credit, increasingly turn to peer-to-peer lending. This ...
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Swedish Shareholders’ Association in the Financial Times: Carl Rosén interview in FTfm’s “Face to Face”
Carl Rosén, chief executive of the Swedish Shareholders’ Association (SSA) and vice-president of BETTER FINANCE, featured in last Sunday’s Financial ...
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Retail investors not realistic about returns
According to a survey from fund manager Schroders – that surveyed 20,000 investors in 28 countries - , the majority ...
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