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On November 28th BETTER FINANCE and FESE will be hosting a webinar on ‘Enhancing Retail Participation in Capital Markets Through Pension Products’. As part of European Retirement Week 2023, the webinar will assess the Retail Investment Strategy’s impact on pension investments in capital markets and explore the reasons behind Europeans’ limited investment in pension products.

Following the much anticipated release of the EC`s Action Plan on Sustainable Finance on the 8th of March, a High-Level Conference on how best to put the plan into practice took place Thursday last week. BETTER FINANCE`s President Jella Benner-Heinacher took her place amongst influential speakers  such as French President Macron and former NY mayor

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis one thing became abundantly clear: the EU was not adequately equipped to ensure the effective cooperation and coordination between national financial supervisory bodies, or the consistent application of the EU legal framework across all Member States. The creation of EIOPA (as one of the European Supervisory Authorities)

A year and a half after ESMA asked CSSF (the Luxembourg supervisor) to investigate the potential cases of closet indexing (falsely active funds) it identified in Luxembourg. Many months after its colleagues from other important fund domiciles such as the UK, France and Germany had completed – and reported – on their own investigations, CSSF

On the 8th of June, Helen Gibbons, Board Member of BETTER FINANCE, will be speaking in a Project Lab on "Financial Education for the Promotion of Social and Financial Inclusion" organized by BBVA and the European Commission. This event is part of the European Development days ( EDD). Find more information on this event here 

The 8th international congress of the European Federation of Building Societies (EFBS) – ‘Brave New World for Finance’ – took place on 19 October 2016 in Budapest. The conference was opened by Mr. Dániel Palotai, the Managing Director of the Hungarian National Bank, and Mr. Boris Vujčić, Governor of the Croatian National Bank. Six roundtable

Individual investors never agreed with the dismantling of Fortis and are now asking for compensation. The francophone court of Brussels will handle the case with more than 5 billion euro at stake. The issues under investigation are the dismantling of Fortis and the sale of a part of the former bank. More than 1000 shareholders

In April 2015, Spanish MEP Soledad Cabezón took the issue of mortgage legislation and risky financial instruments in the EU, and focusing on Spain in particular, to the European Parliament Petitions Committee. Since the protection of consumer rights is a fundamental operating principle of the European Union, the matter is obviously raising eyebrows. Both the European Court of Justice and the Supreme Court in Spain already

In an article published in Les Echos on the 28th of May, BETTER FINANCE’s Managing Director Guillaume Prache was quoted on issues concerning the situation for French retirement savers, in light of a new bill expected in the Council of Ministers in June, said in the article as leaning in favour of asset managers. To

On 1 January 2014, Latvia became the 18th member of the Eurozone and the second Baltic state to adopt the currency following Estonia in 2011. The Latvian adoption of the euro happened under widespread public fear over possible price rises and the future of the single currency. Latvians’ reluctance can be seen in light of

ATM – the Portuguese Investor Association was founded in 1998 with the main objective of providing training and information to investors in the capital market and to further promote investment. ATM is a full member of BETTER FINANCE.

“Es el sentido de conservación innato de la gente el que ha mantenido nuestro dinero a flote a pesar de las fantásticas artimañas que las financieras hacen – y las cuales cubren con tecnicismos y términos rebuscados. La gente está del lado de una moneda sólida. Están tan inalterablemente del lado de una moneda sólida,

The heads of European and Member State organisations representing individual shareholders across Europe sent an Open Letter to the European Commission opposing lobbying attempts by powerful financial intermediaries to postpone the implementation of the Shareholder Rights Directive II. BETTER FINANCE, Asociata Utilizatorilor Romani de Servicii Financiare (AURSF), Associacao dos Investidores e Analistas Técnicos do Mercado de

The BETTER FINANCE team As an association of national member organisations, BETTER FINANCE is supported by a small professional Brussels-based team and our friends on Facebook and LinkedIn. New members and supporters are always welcome to get involved. Our team consists of finance professionals, lobbyists and communication specialists who carry out the core activities of BETTER FINANCE. Managing Director, Aleksandra Mączyńska

BETTER FINANCE already raised the issue that only a limited number of larger SMEs are likely to benefit from a Capital Markets Union. As such, introducing an EU framework enabling crowdfunding platforms to provide their services across the Internal Market should be beneficial for both investors and SMEs. However, BETTER FINANCE remains skeptical regarding the

BETTER FINANCE agrees that in order to avoid legal uncertainty and the multiplication of legal requirements for crowdfunding platforms, MiFID II should not apply to crowdfunding providers who have been authorized as crowdfunding providers under the ECSP.

This morning the EC released: 1. The Proposal for a Regulation on European Crowdfunding Services for Business. It: establishes a one-stop-shop access to the EU market and therefore helps crowdfunding platforms in overcoming the barriers they face operating cross-border; provides tailored rules for European crowdfunding services providers covering both investment-based and lending-based business models; gives

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the initiative from the European Commission to consult stakeholders on a legislative proposal for an EU framework on crowd and peer to peer finance. BETTER FINANCE already raised the issue that only a limited number of the larger SMEs are likely to benefit from Capital Markets Union. As part of the 2015

For some years now, crowdfunding has provided a new form of financing for SMEs, start-ups and not-for-profit projects. The European Parliament, in its resolution on the 9th of July 2015 on building a Capital Market Union underlined the importance of crowdfunding “CMU should create an appropriate regulatory environment that enhances cross-border access to information on

A little while ago, on October 3, the European Commission launched a consultation inviting stakeholders to share their views on Crowdfunding. Being an issue of growing importance not only for the EU economy as a whole but especially for retail investors and other financial services users, EuroFinUse welcomes this initiative and presented its response. EuroFinUse

Following the Workshop on Crowdfunding organized in June 2013, attended by Guillaume Prache of EuroFinUse, the European Commission launched a consultation inviting stakeholders to share their views about Crowdfunding. This emerging alternative form of financing removes the middleman by pooling small amounts of capital from a large number of individuals and putting these investors in

EuroFinUse published a position paper on Crowdfunding, a very important emerging trend in financial services. Financial services users, savers and retail investors are not opposed to innovation, particularly with regard to the emergence of Crowdfunding, which could actually dramatically improve the delivery of retail financial services, provided the EU regulators find an adequate user protection

EuroFinUse participates to the workshop organised by the European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services on ‘Crowdfunding: Untapping its potential, reducing the risks’ on 3 June 2013. Questions will address Crowdfunding in Europe: What drives its growth and what are the obstacles to it? Can it help to fill the financing gap for small firms

Equity Crowdfunding means people investing in an unlisted company – usually at an early stage of its lifecycle – in return for shares. However, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), UK-based financial regulatory body found out that most companies in equity crowdfunding misled investors about the risks involved.  Information regarding the companies was often – if

According to a Belgian law passed in 1980, only professionals can benefit from a tax deduction. An individual shareholder of a foreign company will first be taxed abroad on his financial assets and will then be taxed in Belgium. In its ruling handed down by the Cour de Cassation, the Belgian judge pointed out that this law

An analysis by ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, has shed light on the costs and performance of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) funds compared to non-ESG funds. The findings reveal that ESG funds have lower costs and better performance, even after considering factors such as portfolio composition. Understanding the drivers behind these differences

With the entire world in the grip of an unprecedented pandemic, governments around the world struggle to bring the devastating Coronavirus under control, save lives and alleviate overburdened health systems. Unfortunately, the necessary health, quarantine and social distancing measures implemented to fight the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, are taking their toll on economies around the world.

Brussels, 23 April 2020 – The necessary health, quarantine and social distancing measures taken to fight the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, are taking their toll on economies around the world. This strategy – crucial to the fight – coupled with monetary and budgetary expansions of unseen magnitudes, will have lasting and damaging economic consequences due to

There is bad news for Belgian investors as Belgium and France have reformed a new tax treaty which, according to two sources close to the negotiators, would stop the Cour de cassation, one of the four courts of last resort in France, from allowing it to reduce the double imposition of dividends. The current convention

Following the ECB’s package for banking supervision in the Eurozone, announced in early October, and in particular since the “bail ins” of bank bondholders, the Bank of Italy said this week that Italian cities’ human rights could be at risk if the European Union forces subordinated bondholders to take losses or convert their holdings to

The Eurozone’s politicians have been very hesitant to scrutinize banks’ balance-sheets and even more reluctant to force banks to start cleaning up the mess. Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced this week that he intends to end this travesty and launched an initiative to inspect the balance-sheets of the region’s

Guillaume Prache, Managing Director at BETTER FINANCE, was interviewed by the French daily newspaper "La Liberté" on the stress tests the European Central Bank (ECB) is carrying out in 123 banks across the 28 European Union countries. The ECB is scrutinizing 130 banks in the 18 eurozone countries and Lithuania, which is set to join the currency union

XI International Convention of Independent Financial Advisers (CIFA) Forum on 24th to 26th April 2013  in Monaco. The Forum aims at tackling the overarching question if the world banking system can be reformed. A variety of panels, seminars and workshops are foreseen over the two days event, and EuroFinUse will represent the point of view