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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.

These statements aim to inform the public, media, and institutional stakeholders of BETTER FINANCE’s positions and contributions.

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A successful “Capital Markets Union” initiative must involve and attract individual investors

BETTER FINANCE shares its first thoughts on the long-waited European Commission Green Paper on Building a Capital Markets Union (CMU). Our press release is available here ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

French Pension Fund Victims sacrificed again

400 000 French pension savers who have been the victims of an irresponsible and misleading strategy are being sacrificed once again. The French mutual UMR announced measures to try and ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions

“Relevant players” in the long term capital market excluded from the policy debate?

BETTER FINANCE notes with concern that the panel on “relevant players in the market for long term capital” at the upcoming Conference by the European Commission and the Italian Presidency ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

New EU legislation on shareholders rights: Many European shareholders will still not be able to vote whilst others will still have to pay to vote

The European Commission’s review of the shareholders rights directive is a good step forward, but, if not amended and improved upon by the European Parliament, will fail to fix the ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

New European Commission: important issues such as shareholder rights, corporate governance and employee share ownership at risk of relegation

BETTER FINANCE for all stands fully behind the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES) - one of its member organizations - in its response to the European Commission’s proposed ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Beware! Saving for your pensions may be losing you money.

The outlook for European citizens saving money for their pensions is far from encouraging. A new report on the gloomy status of private pensions in Europe was released today by ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions

European Financial Regulator fails to recognise the mounting losses hitting European savers and investors

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the new "Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities" report released today by the European Securities & Markets Authority (ESMA). But the ESMA press release does not say a word ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Supervision & Redress

EIOPA Chair: «We created a monster»

Gabriel Bernardino, the Chairman of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), gave an impassioned and encouraging speech on « EIOPA’s priorities for consumer protection » at the BETTER ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions

London, 4 June 2014: the European financial consumer exclusion day?

BETTER FINANCE and other European organisations representing savers and financial users were quite disappointed by today’s «Consumer Protection Day » jointly organised by the three European financial Supervisory Authorities (Securities ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions

Widespread support for the protection of financial end-users across the european political spectrum

Despite declaring that households are the main source of funds to finance long term investment in the European economy, the majority of MEPs who responded to the Questionnaire on the ...
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