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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

National Supervisory Authorities Reject Rules for Key Information Documents for Retail Investment Products: it is high time to implement the European Commission’s High-Level Forum’s recommendations

Brussels, 31 July 2020 – In a letter to the European Commission’s Directorate General in charge of Financial Stability, Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) dated 20 June 2020, ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress

Q&A Catalogue for Wirecard Investors

BETTER FINANCE's German member organisation, Deutsche Schutzverein für Wertpapiersitz (DSW), published a series of Q&As for duped individual investors and pension savers in light of the outrageous Wirecard AG scandal ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

The EU Capital Markets Recovery Package should take Individual Investors and the Wirecard case into account

Brussels, 31 July 2020 – On 24 July 2020, the European Commission (EC) announced the “Capital Markets Recovery Package”, as part of the its overall coronavirus recovery strategy, aimed at ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

EU Citizens as Users sidelined in favour of Financial Industry in European Financial Policymaking and Supervision

Brussels, 20 July 2020 – The new composition of the European Supervisory Authorities’ (ESAs) “Stakeholder Groups” is a step backwards with regard to a balanced representation between industry and consumers ...
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/ Press Releases, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE Reply to the European Commission’s Consultation on the renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy

BETTER FINANCE believes that the main challenges and opportunities for next 10 years will be:
  • Reorienting the equity and bond funding towards sustainable investments.
  • The identification of sustainable investments ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Sustainabe Finance

Best Practices in Relation to Relief Measures Offered to Consumers and Businesses in the Context of the Covid-19 Crisis

European Commission Press Release - This document reflects the outcome of the high level dialogue between all participants of two round-tables on best practices organised in May and June 2020 ...
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/ Press Releases, Banking, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE Feedback to the European Commission Consultation on obligations for investment firms to advise clients on social and environmental aspects of financial products

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the introduction of requirements for firms providing investment advice and portfolio management to ask clients about their non-financial objectives and preferences. This is an important step forward ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE – Annual Report 2019

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/ Annual Reports, Other

DSW: Compensation for Wirecard investors only via legal action

Düsseldorf, 01 July 2020 – DSW, the leading shareholder association in Germany, repeatedly criticised Wirecard in the last years for its lack of transparency and weak Corporate Goverance structures. „The ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Reporting & Audit, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

Wirecard AG: an outrageous case of corporate governance, external auditing and supervisory failures, once again at the expense of investors and pension savers

It is with surprise that BETTER FINANCE and its member organisations representing financial services users read the headline on 18 June 2020 that Wirecard AG (“WD”), one of Europe’s FinTech ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Other, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress