BETTER FINANCE Responds to the IAASB-IESBA Stakeholder Survey for 2028-2031 Strategy Period
BETTER FINANCE responds to the IAASB-IESBA Stakeholder Survey for the 2028-2031 strategy period from the perspective of European individual investors, savers and financial users. The SSBs should measure progress not ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to the European Commission’s Revised Sustainability Reporting Standard for Voluntary Use (VSME)
BETTER FINANCE supports efforts to reduce disproportionate reporting burdens and recognises the importance of ensuring that sustainability reporting frameworks remain proportionate and operationally feasible. Simplification can contribute to the competitiveness ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to the European Commission’s Revised Mandatory Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the substantial simplification already achieved through EFRAG’s revised ESRS and supports efforts to reduce disproportionate reporting burdens. BETTER FINANCE also welcomes the retention of important principles including ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to Commission’s Consultation on the Update of the Rules on Shareholder Rights
For individual investors, a reviewed European shareholder rights framework (moving from SRDII towards an SRDIII, or best, in part as an SRR regulation) must finally make AGM participation – or ...
EU Pension Reform: BETTER FINANCE Welcomes Improvement But Warns Savers Still Lack Power, Transparency, and Fair Returns
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the European Commission’s new “Supplementary Pensions Package”, which includes proposed reforms to occupational pensions (IORP II), the Pan-European Personal Pension (PEPP), and new recommendations on pension tracking ...
BETTER FINANCE’s Key Positions on the Commission’s Proposals on Supplementary Pensions
BETTER FINANCE warmly welcomes the European Commission’s legislative proposals amending the EU’s framework on supplementary pensions—the IORP II Directive and the PEPP Regulation—as well as the set of recommendations it ...
Annual Report 2025
2025 was a year of sustained engagement for BETTER FINANCE. The federation increased its efforts in advocacy, research, and outreach activities on behalf of individual savers, investors, and financial services ...
BETTER FINANCE Response to the Review of the EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act Technical Screening Criteria
The EU Taxonomy plays a central role in the EU sustainable finance framework by providing a common classification system for environmentally sustainable economic activities. Its purpose is to help investors, companies and ...
BETTER FINANCE Response to the Review of the EU Taxonomy Environmental Delegated Act Technical Screening Criteria
The EU Taxonomy plays a central role in the EU sustainable finance framework by providing a common classification system for environmentally sustainable economic activities. Its purpose is to help investors, ...
EU Sustainable Finance Rules Must Deliver Clarity, Credibility and Real Impact for Citizens, Says BETTER FINANCE
BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to revise the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), stressing that the reform must put ...
