BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission Consultation on the review of suitability and appropriateness assessments
The European Commission proposes to replace the current suitability-appropriateness duality in the MiFID II and insurance distribution Directives, with a new, unique, and standardised suitability regime for all categories of ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the EC Public consultation on strengthening the quality of corporate reporting and its enforcement
BETTER FINANCE and its member organisations representing individual, minority shareholders see the framework for sound functioning and trustworthy listed issuers as comprising three key dimensions: first, sustainable corporate governance (corporate ...
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Solvency Reports (SFCR) 2020 under examination Disruption of European Insurers in times of Financial Repression
In June 2021, the German Association of Insured (BdV), together with the analyst Carsten Zielke and the European consumer organisation BETTER FINANCE, presented the results of their analysis of the ...
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BETTER FINANCE feedback on Corporate Sustainability reporting
In May 2018, The European Parliament called for further developments of reporting requirements in the framework of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD). In December 2020, a resolution on Sustainable Corporate ...
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BETTER FINANCE Input for the Research Project by EFRAG, ICAS & EFFAS on the Production and Consumption of Information on Intangibles: An Empirical Investigation of CFOs and Investors
Intangibles are critical to the business model of many companies, and fundamental for explaining the value creation process particularly as we continue to move towards a knowledge-based economy. Notwithstanding their ...
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Commissioner McGuinness: “Putting people at the heart of the financial system is part of my vision”
On 22 April at the BETTER FINANCE’s international conference, high-level speakers and over 350 registered participants debated “How to make the EU Capital Markets Union (‘CMU’) work for people?”. For ...
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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 - a European Single Access Point - for investors to access all information about issuers of financial instruments ...
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BETTER FINANCE Position on the EC Proposal for an EU Recovery Prospectus
The BETTER FINANCE welcomes the proposal put forward by the European Commission to simplify Prospectus disclosure rules for equity issuers in order to stimulate equity financing by companies in need ...
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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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BETTER FINANCE response to the Consultation from the European Commission on the Review of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD)
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the initiative of the European Commission (EC) to review the non-financial reporting directive. Currently, there are significant problems regarding the non-financial information disclosed by companies pursuant to ...
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