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Euroshareholders

As part of BETTER FINANCE and through the EuroVote platform, Euroshareholders represents the interest of individual shareholders and seeks to improve corporate governance in the European Union.

EuroInvestors

BETTER FINANCE represents individual investors other than shareholders and keeps a close eye on crucial developments in terms of sustainable finance and the development of a Capital Markets Union.

EuroFinUse

BETTER FINANCE represents all other users of financial services across the European Union and works to improve horizontal issues such as supervision, enforcement and investor education.

Publications

Open Letter to DG FISMA: Deficiencies of the Slovenian Market in Financial Instruments Act

At BETTER FINANCE, we closely monitor various Member States’ legal frameworks regarding the rights of individual investors and minority shareholders. We firmly believe that among the most important rights of ...
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/ Public letters

BETTER FINANCE celebrates its 10-year Anniversary & elects Axel Kleinlein from the German BdV as its new President

At the beginning of the week, BETTER FINANCE and its Member Organisations gathered in Bucharest, Romania, to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services ...
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/ Press Releases, Other

BETTER FINANCE is happy that the EP adopted the PEPP Regulation but hopes that the major “Guarantee” issue for European Savers can be adequately addressed in the near future

As shown by independent research into the real net returns of European pension savings carried out by BETTER FINANCE, pension savings products too often significantly underperform capital markets, and even ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions

EU Authorities supervising Financial Services to get stronger Consumer Protection Powers

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the reform of the European System of Financial Supervision, helping the European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Insurance and Occupational Pension Authority (EIOPA), and the European Markets ...
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/ Press Releases, Banking, Life Insurance & Pensions

BETTER FINANCE ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBERS

BETTER FINANCE is honoured to announce the establishment of the BETTER FINANCE Scientific Committee to further support and strengthen its research activities. The Scientific Committee consists of highly skilled and ...
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/ Press Releases, Other

BETTER FINANCE’s response on “Targeted consultation on the draft guidelines on the standardised presentation of the remuneration report “

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the European Commission's report on standardised presentation of the remuneration and stresses the importance of these guidelines to provide a clear and understandable remuneration. We believe that ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

2019 European Elections: EU Citizens as Investors and Financial Services Users want A NEW DEAL

BETTER FINANCE asks EU Politicians about their Key Priorities for the Next Five Years Press Release – Next May nearly 450 million Europeans across the EU will be called to ...
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/ Press Releases, Banking, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE Key Priorities for the Next Five Years │ 2019-2024

A strong European CMU requires the trust of citizens as individual investors, policy holders, pension savers and other savers. And defusing the pensions time bomb requires positive and decent real ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Other

BETTER FINANCE response to the EU Commission’s Public Consultation on the update of the non-binding guidelines on non-financial reporting

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the update of the non-binding guidelines on non-financial reporting as a crucial step toward achieving the Paris agreement and the Sustainable Development goals by reorienting capital flows to ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE feedback to the EC’s questionnaire on the first round of climate mitigation activities

BETTER FINANCE provided feedback to the European Commission's ongoing work to develop the taxonomy as part of the action plan on financing sustainable growth ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Sustainabe Finance