Ensure a Level Playing Field for ELTIFs to Take Off
With merely 22 active funds, of which just a handful are marketed and distributed to individual, non-professional (“retail”) investors, the EU Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) market is still struggling to ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to the European Supervisory Authorities’ Survey on templates for Environmental and/or Social financial products under SFDR
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the the use of specific templates to standardise the disclosures of ESG information. We consider that to be comparable, the information disclosed must reach the highest degree ...
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BETTER FINANCE Position on the Impact of Monetary Policy on Global Challenges and the European Central Bank
BETTER FINANCE thanks the ECB for this initiative to reach out to EU citizens as users of financial services and to the “civil society” at large. We acknowledge the major ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to the EC Consultation on the new Consumer Agenda
Corporate social responsibility and pro-environmentalism has gained importance among consumers too often providing incentives for producers to brand unsustainable products as green or environmentally friendly. Research on product labelling suggests ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to the EC Consultation on EU Green Bond Standards
The green bond market has been growing rapidly in the recent years. But several issues are affecting this market and eroding investor confidence in this financial instrument. Ensuring transparency on ...
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BETTER FINANCE feedback to the European Commission on Sustainable Corporate Governance
BETTER FINANCE warmly welcomes the European Commission initiative to improve the EU regulatory framework on company law and corporate governance. We consider that it has become imperative to reinforce the ...
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All Talk, Little Action: European Commission releases watered down Capital Markets Union (CMU) Action Plan
24 September 2020 – The European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) published a third action plan to build a Capital Markets ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to the Joint ESAs Consultation Paper on ESG disclosures
This document contains the response of BETTER FINANCE to the European Commission’s online survey (public consultation) concerning the consultation on the renewed sustainable finance strategy. BETTER FINANCE considers that the ...
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Joint NGOs Position on the EU Ecolabel for Retail Financial Products and comments on the Technical Report 2.0
The Commission is currently developing the EU Ecolabel for Retail Financial Products within the framework of the Sustainable Finance Action Plan. The Joint Research Center (JRC) has presented a proposal ...
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BETTER FINANCE Reply to the European Commission’s Consultation on the renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy
BETTER FINANCE believes that the main challenges and opportunities for next 10 years will be:
- Reorienting the equity and bond funding towards sustainable investments.
- The identification of sustainable investments ...
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