Q&A Catalogue for Wirecard Investors
BETTER FINANCE's German member organisation, Deutsche Schutzverein für Wertpapiersitz (DSW), published a series of Q&As for duped individual investors and pension savers in light of the outrageous Wirecard AG scandal ...
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The EU Capital Markets Recovery Package should take Individual Investors and the Wirecard case into account
Brussels, 31 July 2020 – On 24 July 2020, the European Commission (EC) announced the “Capital Markets Recovery Package”, as part of the its overall coronavirus recovery strategy, aimed at ...
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BETTER FINANCE recommendations for the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee’s report on the Further Development of the Capital Markets Union (CMU): Improving Access to Capital Market Finance, in particular by SMEs, and Further Enabling Retail Investor Participation
BETTER FINANCE – one of the only two individual user side members of the European Commission’s “High Level Forum on the CMU” - firmly advocates for a Capital Markets Union ...
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DSW: Compensation for Wirecard investors only via legal action
Düsseldorf, 01 July 2020 – DSW, the leading shareholder association in Germany, repeatedly criticised Wirecard in the last years for its lack of transparency and weak Corporate Goverance structures. „The ...
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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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European Commission Reply to Joint Open Letter “EU Investors against any postponement of the implementation of the Shareholder Rights Directive II”
Below please find the European Commission Reply to the Open Letter by BETTER FINANCE and its members against any postponement of the implementation of the Shareholder Rights Directive II ...
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BETTER FINANCE urges to put Employee Share Ownership at the core of efforts to tackle the Corona-induced financial crisis
Brussels, 22 May 2020 - With the current crisis calling for a tightening of the link between employees and their companies, especially in the case of SMEs, BETTER FINANCE’s member ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission Public consultation on the review of the MiFID II/MiFIR regulatory framework
Summary: General comment The review of the MiFID II framework is timely and should be coordinated with the other ongoing actions and policy areas, i.e. PRIIPs and the work done ...
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Open Letter to the European Commission – EU Investors against any postponement of the implementation of the Shareholder Rights
The heads of European and Member State organisations representing individual shareholders across Europe sent an Open Letter to the European Commission opposing lobbying attempts by powerful financial intermediaries to postpone the ...
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BETTER FINANCE welcomes the new European Guidelines on Funds’ “Performance” Fees
On 3 April the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its final guidelines on performance fees in investment funds, applicable to Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) ...
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