BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission consultation on the Listing Act
Unfortunately, EU action through the listing act aimed at incentivising businesses and companies to go public and for individual, non-professional investors to invest in these companies, did not achieve its ...
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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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BETTER FINANCE response to ESMA’s Call for Evidence on Retail Investor Protection Topics
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this call for evidence from ESMA on retail investor protection topics but regrets that it is confined to securities markets (MiFID II) topics only as these financial ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s response to the ESA’s Call for Evidence on the PRIIPs Regulation
The EU offers pre-contractual information to non-professional investors before purchasing its investment products. Since 2018, the same Key Information Document (KID) has been used for these Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Products (PRIIPs). The European Commission asked ...
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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 response to the call for feedback to the Platform on Sustainable Finance’s draft report on social taxonomy
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the horizontal and vertical dimensions represented in the objectives of the taxonomy. Furthermore, we would like to suggest expanding the horizontal dimension based on the promotion of ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to EIOPA Public Consultation on Technical Advice on Pension Tracking Systems
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the establishment of Pension Tracking Systems (PTS) in each EU Member State as a pivotal step towards achieving pension adequacy. EU citizens, being able to easily monitor ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to the Joint ESAs Consultation concerning Taxonomy-related sustainability disclosures
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) - EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA issued a consultation paper setting out the proposed Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) setting out the content and presentation of the ...
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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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