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 ...
Transition Investing 2026 | From Commitments to Outcomes
Our 2026 analysis finds encouraging progress has been made, whereby capital is supporting some sectors and technologies central to the transition, however, significant challenges remain:
- Differences in reporting methodologies ...
EU Crypto Investors Still Struggle to Find Basic Information Despite MiCA
Researchers expose major gaps in disclosures as crypto becomes increasingly mainstream Crypto is going mainstream in Europe, but investors still cannot always find the essential information they need to understand ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to ESMA’s Consultation on Simplifying the EU Taxonomy Disclosure Framework
BETTER FINANCE supports ESMA’s efforts to simplify EU Taxonomy reporting. The current framework can be complex and, in some areas, requires significant reporting effort without always providing investors with equally ...
European shareholders call time on “postcode lottery” AGMs
New BETTER FINANCE survey reveals fragmented rules, persistent barriers, and risks of weakening individual shareholder voice across Europe A new Europe-wide survey by BETTER FINANCE members and coordinated by its ...
Evidence from AGMs: Fixing Europe’s Fragmented Shareholder Rights Framework (2025-2026)
BETTER FINANCE and IVA surveyed retail investor representatives across 15 European jurisdictions (13 EU Member States, together with the UK and Switzerland) to examine how shareholder rights work in practice ...
