EU Pension Reform Could Put Workers’ Retirement Savings at Risk, Warns BETTER FINANCE
Changes proposed by European Parliament Rapporteur, MEP Damian Boeselager, could expose pension savings to greater investment risks while weakening transparency and savers’ rights. The warning comes in BETTER FINANCE's response ...
Green Promises are Not Enough: Investors Deserve Proof, Says BETTER FINANCE
Is your money really helping to fight climate change, or is it just another green promise? New guidance from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) reinforces a simple message ...
Buying Crypto? You May Not Know What You’re Getting – or Who’s Responsible When Things Go Wrong
BETTER FINANCE calls on the EU to close dangerous gaps in crypto investor protection Buying crypto-assets has never been easier. But do investors really know what they are buying, what ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to Public Consultation on the Review of Regulation on the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the review of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), while offering preliminary views on the broader regulatory challenges arising from digitalisation, tokenisation ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to Targeted Consultation on the Review of Regulation on the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the review of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). We regard MiCAR as a sound foundation ...
SFDR Reform: New Labels, Same Greenwashing Risk?
Will Europe’s new sustainability product categories finally help individual investors, or simply give greenwashing a new name? As negotiations on the proposed revision of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) move ...
Europe Wants Citizens to Invest. So Why Does the Tax System Punish Them?
Europe wants its citizens to invest more of their savings in capital markets. Yet across Europe, tax systems can make investing unnecessarily complex, favour certain savings products over others and ...
Transition Investing Moves from Commitments to Outcomes, but Investors Still Cannot Compare Progress, New BETTER FINANCE Report Finds
BETTER FINANCE published its annual assessment of whether transition investing is giving individual investors the tools to identify credible opportunities and whether capital is contributing to measurable change in the ...
Ensuring a Safe Digital Space Now: Tackling the Growth of Scams on Social Media Platforms
Together, the undersigned organisations, are sounding the alarm about the growing proliferation of scams on social media platforms. We call on the relevant EU and national authorities to ensure that ...
Tax Distortions in Retail Investing: Brokerage and Savings & Investment Accounts in Europe
Seven national tax systems through the lens of retail-investor representatives: lessons for the Savings and Investments Union Europe’s true challenge is not a shortage of household savings in aggregate, but ...
