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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

The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) re-appoints BETTER FINANCE candidate as only Board Member representing Retail Investors

BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce that Jella Benner-Heinacher, the Deputy Chief Director of the Deutsche Schutzvereinigung für Wertpapierbesitz (DSW) and BETTER FINANCE Vice-President, was appointed to the Board of ...
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/ Press Releases, Other, Supervision & Redress

Capital Markets Union at Risk as European “Retail” Investors have less and less access to Equity Market Data

Access to equity market data is essential for “retail” investors to make informed investment decisions. However, new research by BETTER FINANCE[1] found that the equity market data published by the ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Consumer Access to EU Equity Trade Data

Transparent and consolidated trading venues are the foundation of efficient capital markets for individual investors, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the economy as a whole. From a retail investors’ ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

BETTER FINANCE Position on Crypto Assets and Distributed Ledger Technology

Regulations on Markets in Crypto-Assets and the EU Pilot Regime for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) based market infrastructures BETTER FINANCE welcomes the initiatives and efforts of EU public authorities to ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), FinTech, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE feedback to the European Commission’s Proposal for a Common Digital Plan – Europe’s Digital Decade – 2030 Digital Targets

The Covid-19 crisis showed how digitalization can play a useful role for consumers and businesses. However, digitalization and new emerging technological trends do not come without risks, scams, and fraud ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, FinTech

BETTER FINANCE’s feedback to the European Commission Consultation on the Establishment of a European Single Access Point (ESAP)

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the Commission’s initiative to create a unique digital platform for investors to access all information about issuers of financial instruments and manufacturers of investment products. For a ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress

GameStop Case Highlights Discrimination of “Retail” Investors in Stock Markets

In January, the market value of American video game and electronics retailer GameStop, driven by an “army” of “retail” investors[1], shot up from $1.4 billion to $33.7 billion.  This dramatic ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, FinTech, Securities Markets & Trading

Spanish lawyer José F. Estévez appointed in Paris as member of the Advisory Committee of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)

16 February 2021 - José F. Estévez, Managing Partner of CREMADES & CALVO-SOTELO ABOGADOS, has been appointed as a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Corporate Finance ...
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/ Press Releases, Other

European Financial Users further increase Participation in European Financial Policymaking

BETTER FINANCE is happy to announce that The European Banking Authority’s Banking Stakeholder Group (BSG) selected one of its previous vice-chairs, Alin Iacob, to join the BSG again. Alin Iacob ...
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/ Press Releases, Other, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE response to the EC Consultation on Sustainable Corporate Governance

BETTER FINANCE considers the aim of the EC Commission to establish a European framework on Sustainable Corporate governance in order to better hold directors accountable to long-term oriented stakeholders praiseworthy ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Sustainabe Finance