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BETTER FINANCE’s press releases serve as the organisation’s official voice on developments in EU financial regulation, investor protection, and consumer policy.

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Press releases are issued in line with major EU legislative or regulatory milestones, institutional events, key advocacy actions, and stakeholder engagements.

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Bank savings accounts in the EU hit by financial repression

Savings accounts still constitute the most widely-used (35% of all financial savings of EU household ) financial products in Europe and together represent roughly € 10 trillion of household savings ...
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/ Press Releases, Banking

A Capital Markets Union without a single market for EU-wide shareholder engagement

BETTER FINANCE's press release on the Commission’s proposal for the review of the Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD) is available here ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

European shareholders considering legal proceedings against Volkswagen

Representing VW shareholders, DSW, a member organization of BETTER FINANCE, is examining the possibility of legal proceedings on the grounds that VW violated its duty to immediately disclose all information ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

European Pension Savings: Fees and taxes eradicate returns

BETTER FINANCE launched the third edition of its annual examination of the returns on pension savings in the EU. Our press release is available here ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions

CMU Action Plan: positive but more could still be done to really tackle the loss of confidence of EU citizens as individual investors

BETTER FINANCE's press release on the CMU Action Plan communicated today by the European Commission is available here ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

European Parliament once again ignores individual shareholders rights

The new EU Shareholders Rights’ Directive is to be voted tomorrow 8 July. As it stands the proposal grossly ignores all the modest amendments called for by European individual shareholder ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

An early blow to the CMU initiative?

BETTER FINANCE's press release on the plenary vote of the new EU Shareholders Rights’ Directive, as amended by the Parliament’s JURI committee, on June 10 is available here ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Commissioner Hill: “Effective consumer and investor protection will need to be at the heart of the CMU”

BETTER FINANCE believes that the CMU is about attracting household savings to put them to work for the long term financing of the European economy. Therefore, we invited several high-level ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

BETTER FINANCE welcomes two new members!

BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce the affiliation of two new member organisations: the Bulgarian Financial Forum (BFF), active in the protection of consumers in the financial area in Bulgaria, ...
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/ Press Releases, Other

Return Capital Markets to their natural participants

BETTER FINANCE expressed its views on the CMU project and what it needs to succeed following its International Conference on "“A Capital Market Union for Growth, Jobs and Citizens” ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)