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Our Research & Policy Aim

As a public interest organisation, BETTER FINANCE is committed to advancing the interests of individual investors and users of financial services throughout the European Union.

Our Goal

Our goal is to promote transparency, long-term value, and consumer protection in financial markets, ensuring that retail investors have a strong voice in policy discussions.

Our Approach

Working collaboratively with our member organisations, BETTER FINANCE undertakes rigorous analysis and research, engages in stakeholder consultations, and solicits expert contributions, resulting in well-informed, data-driven policy recommendations.

This approach ensures that EU financial regulations align with the interests of European citizens.

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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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/ Consultations, Banking, FinTech, Supervision & Redress

Expropriation of Investors in Slovenian Banks ruled a Violation of Property Rights by European Court of Human Rights

BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, joins its Slovenian Member, the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD), in welcoming the recent ruling by the European Court of ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

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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/ Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), FinTech, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

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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/ Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, FinTech, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

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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/ Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, FinTech, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE response to the FCA Consultation on a New Consumer Duty

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the FCA's proposal on consumer duty. We consider the general duty of care to be at the core of investor protection in securities markets. In fact, in ...
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/ Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE reply to EIOPA’s Public Consultation on a ‘Framework to address value for money risk in the European unit-linked market’

BETTER FINANCE welcomes this unique initiative from EIOPA as an example of best practice in terms of supervision and investor protection, not only at the EU level but on the ...
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/ Consultations, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Product governance & disclosures, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE Response to the EC Consultation on Supervisory Convergence and the Single Rulebook

There has been considerable progress on both supervisory convergence and the single rulebook since the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) were created in 2011. Nevertheless, both require continued and appropriately ...
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/ Consultations, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE Response to the European Commission consultation on the review of the crisis management and deposit insurance framework

In response to the global financial crisis, the EU started working towards a safer financial sector for the EU single market, triggering changes to European financial legislation and to the ...
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/ Consultations, Banking, Supervision & Redress

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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/ Consultations, Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

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