ANNEX 1A BETTER FINANCE helps investors identify potential falsely active funds (“closet indexers”), and asks regulators to investigate further: It replicated the ESMA study on closet indexing and identified up to 165 equity “UCITS” funds that could potentially be closet indexers. Annex 1.A – List of All Funds (2332 funds) Annex 1.B – List of

The Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE presented the case of the bail-in of the six top Slovenian banks to the Banking Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority (EBA) at a meeting in London on 8 December 2016. The actual implementation of bail-in rules in the case of the Slovenian banks is hitting non-insider retail

60 years of European Common market, two green papers, but very little progress: we believe that this is another opportunity to finally bring about a common European market for retail financial services. We dearly hope it does not fail like all previous attempts over the last 60 years or so.

BETTER FINANCE – the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users – took a closer look at a sample of new Robot Advice providers, both in the US and in selected EU countries (Belgium, France, Germany, UK). The research concentrated on the products on offer as well as prices.

BETTER FINANCE submitted comments on the identification and calibration of infrastructure investment risk categories to EIOPA.

BETTER FINANCE published its briefing paper on “An EU Capital Market Union for Growth, Jobs and Citizens”.

Following its hearing on MiFID II and MiFIR on February 19, ESMA invited interested parties to reply to its consultation. BETTER FINANCE welcomes the opportunity to share its views and publishes today its reply.

BETTER FINANCE published its comments on the new Directive on Administrative Cooperation (DAC2) and the concerns DAC2 raises regarding errors of appreciation possibly being made by financial institutions and the issues for EU investors behind the recently adopted new DAC2.

BETTER FINANCE published it comments to the Discussion Paper on KIDs for PRIIPs of the Joint Committee of the ESAs. Read our concerns here.

BETTER FINANCE published its position on the review of the Shareholders Rights Directive.