Are Robo-advisors sufficiently intelligent to provide suitable advice to individual investors?
BETTER FINANCE continued its research series into Robo advice with this sixth annual edition, mapping start-up platforms that provide Robo-advisory and investing services, and analysing their user-friendliness, transparency, costs, portfolio ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission Consultation on Distance Marketing of Consumer Financial Services
In the 2017 EC Consumer Finance Action Plan, the Commission undertook to monitor the distance selling market of retail financial services in order to identify the potential consumer risks and ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s feedback to the EU Commission proposal on a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence
The European Commission has proposed a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence act) and amending certain union legislative acts. The purpose of this regulation is to ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the EU Strategy for Retail Investors
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this consultation from the EC on a much-awaited and needed strategy for retail investors, and fully supports its clearly stated objectives, as defined in the EC CMU ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the EU Strategy for Retail Investors – Annex 1
In our view, the Strategy for Retail Investors (the topic of this consultation) and the Capital Markets Union project are strongly interlinked as both share the aim to promote more ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the EU Strategy for Retail Investors – Annex 2
Annex 2: Individual investor behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis in selected jurisdictions In the first edition of the half-annual report on Trends, Risks, and Vulnerabilities (no. 1, 2021) on EU ...
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BETTER FINANCE feedback to ESMA’s call for evidence on Digital Finance
Technological innovation is transforming financial services at an unprecedented speed, by facilitating new business models and services and the entrance of new market participants. Covid-19 is accelerating this shift and ...
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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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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 ...
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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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