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An early blow to the CMU initiative?

BETTER FINANCE's press release on the plenary vote of the new EU Shareholders Rights’ Directive, as amended by the Parliament’s JURI committee, on June 10 is available here ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Commissioner Hill: “Effective consumer and investor protection will need to be at the heart of the CMU”

BETTER FINANCE believes that the CMU is about attracting household savings to put them to work for the long term financing of the European economy. Therefore, we invited several high-level ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

BETTER FINANCE welcomes two new members!

BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce the affiliation of two new member organisations: the Bulgarian Financial Forum (BFF), active in the protection of consumers in the financial area in Bulgaria, ...
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/ Press Releases, Other

Return Capital Markets to their natural participants

BETTER FINANCE expressed its views on the CMU project and what it needs to succeed following its International Conference on "“A Capital Market Union for Growth, Jobs and Citizens” ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

A successful “Capital Markets Union” initiative must involve and attract individual investors

BETTER FINANCE shares its first thoughts on the long-waited European Commission Green Paper on Building a Capital Markets Union (CMU). Our press release is available here ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

French Pension Fund Victims sacrificed again

400 000 French pension savers who have been the victims of an irresponsible and misleading strategy are being sacrificed once again. The French mutual UMR announced measures to try and ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions

“Relevant players” in the long term capital market excluded from the policy debate?

BETTER FINANCE notes with concern that the panel on “relevant players in the market for long term capital” at the upcoming Conference by the European Commission and the Italian Presidency ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

New EU legislation on shareholders rights: Many European shareholders will still not be able to vote whilst others will still have to pay to vote

The European Commission’s review of the shareholders rights directive is a good step forward, but, if not amended and improved upon by the European Parliament, will fail to fix the ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

New European Commission: important issues such as shareholder rights, corporate governance and employee share ownership at risk of relegation

BETTER FINANCE for all stands fully behind the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES) - one of its member organizations - in its response to the European Commission’s proposed ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Beware! Saving for your pensions may be losing you money.

The outlook for European citizens saving money for their pensions is far from encouraging. A new report on the gloomy status of private pensions in Europe was released today by ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions