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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.

Keynote address by Jella Benner-Heinacher on market structures, “retail” investors, and payments for order flows (PFOF) Thank you for the invitation and congratulations to FESE to organize such an impressive conference in Prague. I would have loved to be personally in this beautiful city of Prague but unfortunately, I can only attend virtually. Nevertheless, I

Yesterday Oxera released a report entitled “The design of equity trading markets in Europe – An economic analysis of price formation and market data services” commissioned by the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE). Through this research, FESE is seeking to inform the debate on the design of equity trading markets in Europe, particularly when

On June 12, the Federation of European Securities Exchanges published a press release, calling for the deletion of Equity OTFs. Neutral, efficient and competitive trading environment is best promoted by requiring BCNs to qualify as MTFs. FESE urges the Irish Presidency and Member States to follow the European Parliament’s approach to delete OTFs for equities.

[Provisional Version of January 2024 – Final version available soon] The report by CFA Institute and BETTER FINANCE critically reviews the EU’s listing rules, targeting reforms to improve public market accessibility for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It aims to foster debate amidst the ongoing review of the Listing Act by the European Commission (EC)

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the objectives of the Listing Act review put forward by the European commission to make EU Capital Markets more attractive for companies, particularly for SMEs.[1] Investor associations have long emphasised that to revitalise the Capital Markets Union, the EU’s primary and secondary markets need a boost, that is, greater participation from EU

European Retirement Week 2022 will take place from 28 November through to 3 December 2022. The group of stakeholders behind the initiative jointly promote the two main goals of European Retirement Week: raising awareness of the pension challenge, and serving as a platform for stakeholders and policymakers to discuss possible solutions to ensure that people

Business and individual investors organisations issue statement on the European Commission’s upcoming initiative on sustainable corporate governance. BETTER FINANCE joined ecoDa, European Family Businesses, EuropeanIssuers, Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), Invest Europe and SMEUnited in issuing this Joint Letter to the European Commission to convey our shared concerns regarding the upcoming proposal on sustainable

BETTER FINANCE issued a Joint Letter regarding the European Commission’s initiative on Sustainable Corporate Governance. This communication asserts that leading European associations share a common perspective on the upcoming initiatives. Alongside BETTER FINANCE, co-signatories are EuropeanIssuers, ecoDa, European Family Businesses (EFB), Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), Invest Europe, SMEunited.

We are delighted to announce that Judith Hardt joined the BETTER FINANCE team in August 2018. With a substantial track record in leading European associations specialized in financial services, she joined BETTER FINANCE as Senior Advisor. Until June 2018, Judith was the Managing Director of the Swiss Finance Council. and represented the interests of internationally

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

BETTER FINANCE is a non-profit international NGO with its office in Brussels acting as an independent financial expertise centre for the direct benefit of European financial services users (individual shareholders, investors, savers, life insurance policyholders, pension fund participants, mortgage borrowers, etc.) and other stakeholders of European financial services who are independent of the financial industry.

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

In June 2021, the German Association of Insured (BdV), together with the analyst Carsten Zielke and the European consumer organisation BETTER FINANCE, presented the results of their analysis of the current SFCR (Solvency and Financial Condition Report) of selected European life-insurers. Following up on this, BETTER FINANCE and BdV discussed their methodological approach, the interpretation

The annual general meeting (AGM) is the cornerstone of shareholder democracy and an essential part of sound corporate governance. Not only are AGMs the place where shareholders get to vote on key decisions, it is also the only time board members and management are held to account, having to answer directly to their shareholders and

The annual general meeting of shareholders (AGM) is the cornerstone for sound corporate governance. It is through the shareholders’ vote at the AGM that board members’ actions get legitimacy and validity. However, it is not only voting that takes place at an AGM. The shareholders’ meeting is the only place where directors must report to

To collect input for the European Commission’s work on a legislative initiative that aims to strengthen the investment protection and facilitation framework in the EU as part of the capital markets union action plan, the directorate-general for financial stability, financial services and capital markets union (DG FISMA) commissioned a study to collect evidence on investor

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24 September 2020 – BETTER FINANCE releases the eighth edition of its report on the Real Return of Long-Term and Pension Savings, which marks a new milestone for the series, since it is the first to cover 20 years of historical track record for retirement provision vehicles. At the same time, the report comes against

On Tuesday, 19 September from 15:00 to 16:30 in the European Parliament in Brussels, a public hearing on the “New EU common system for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of tax abuse in the area of withholding taxes” will take place. The hearing aims to address the burdensome withholding tax refund procedures for

Transparency Task Force is holding an online event, to draw attention to the collective redress action by Stichting Investor Loss Compensation (SILC) for individual Airbus investors who have incurred damages, and to discuss the “Power of Class Actions to get Justice”. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, July 4th, between 6:00 PM and 7:30 PM

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