European Financial Regulator fails to recognise the mounting losses hitting European savers and investors
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the new "Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities" report released today by the European Securities & Markets Authority (ESMA). But the ESMA press release does not say a word ...
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EIOPA Chair: «We created a monster»
Gabriel Bernardino, the Chairman of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), gave an impassioned and encouraging speech on « EIOPA’s priorities for consumer protection » at the BETTER ...
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London, 4 June 2014: the European financial consumer exclusion day?
BETTER FINANCE and other European organisations representing savers and financial users were quite disappointed by today’s «Consumer Protection Day » jointly organised by the three European financial Supervisory Authorities (Securities ...
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Widespread support for the protection of financial end-users across the european political spectrum
Despite declaring that households are the main source of funds to finance long term investment in the European economy, the majority of MEPs who responded to the Questionnaire on the ...
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Review of the Shareholder Rights Directive: BETTER FINANCE asks for free of charge voting rights for individual EU shareholders
During a debate on the European Commission’s proposal to amend the Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD) held on the 12th of May in Brussels, Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, ...
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BETTER FINANCE requests for better shareholders rights
BETTER FINANCE generally strongly supports the Commission’s proposals for amendments to the Shareholders Rights Directive regarding long-term Shareholder engagement. Read here the concrete BETTER FINANCE requests to further improve the ...
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PRIIPs – Better little than nothing
Read here BETTER FINANCE press release following the ECON Committee of the European Parliament approval of the Regulation on key information that small investors should be given before putting money ...
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