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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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The Report of the High-Level Forum on the European Capital Markets Union (CMU): European Savers one step closer to getting Sustainable Value for their Money

PRESS RELEASE The Report of the High-Level Forum on the European Capital Markets Union (CMU): European Savers one step closer to getting Sustainable Value for their Money Brussels, 10 June ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

Initiatives taken to try and help EU Savers and Investors navigate the Economic Fallout from the Coronavirus epidemic

Brussels, 7 April 2020 - The continued spread of the COVID-19 virus around the world and the emergency confinement measures have severely disrupted capital markets. EU Citizens in their capacity ...
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/ Press Releases, Banking, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s Public consultation on an EU framework for markets in crypto-assets

Digitalisation and new technologies are significantly transforming the European financial system and the way it provides financial services to Europe’s businesses and citizens. Key areas of reflection include deepening the ...
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/ Consultations, FinTech, Supervision & Redress

ROBO ADVICE: A LOOK UNDER THE HOOD 2.0.

For the fourth year in a row BETTER FINANCE took a closer look at the emerging robo-advisory business from the perspective of individual investors and savers. This year 16 platforms ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), FinTech, Securities Markets & Trading, Sustainabe Finance

A Look Under the Hood 2.0.: Robo-Advice Holds Great Promise but Disappoints on Suitability

For years now BETTER FINANCE has been calling for Capital Markets to be returned to their natural participants: European households and EU Citizens as individual long-term savers and investors. Robo-advice ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), FinTech, Securities Markets & Trading, Sustainabe Finance

Presentation of the Key Priorities 2019-2024 & Response from EU Political Parties

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/ Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

EU Elections: Are politicians willing to help citizens to improve the long-term value of their savings?

With the European elections around the corner, BETTER FINANCE took stock of the developments over the last five years in matters of financial policy at the European level. Although some ...
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/ Press Releases, Banking, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

2019 European Elections: EU Citizens as Investors and Financial Services Users want A NEW DEAL

BETTER FINANCE asks EU Politicians about their Key Priorities for the Next Five Years Press Release – Next May nearly 450 million Europeans across the EU will be called to ...
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/ Press Releases, Banking, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

INVESTING IS NOT A FULL-TIME JOB FOR CITIZENS

With fewer individual investors investing directly in equities and bonds and households being sold packaged products instead, the products EU citizens invest in are becoming increasingly complex. As a result ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), FinTech

ROBO-ADVICE: EUROPEAN INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS TAKE A LOOK UNDER THE HOOD

For the third year in a row BETTER FINANCE took a closer look at the emerging Robo Advisory business from the perspective of individual investors and savers. Considering that new ...
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/ Research papers, FinTech