BETTER FINANCE Response to ESMA MiFID II/MiFIR Consultation Paper

BETTER FINANCE presents its response to ESMA MiFID II/MiFIR Consultation Paper and addresses two main problems: the sale and distribution of unsuitable, inappropriate or toxic products to retail investors and ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to EIOPA Discussion Paper on Conflicts of Interest in PRIIPs sales

BETTER FINANCE published its comments to EIOPA's Discussion Paper on Conflicts of Interest in direct and intermediated sales of insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the EC DG TRADE’s public consultation on modalities for investment protection and ISDS in TTIP

BETTER FINANCE published its response to the EC DG TRADE's public consultation on modalities for investment protection and ISDS in TTIP. Please find it here ...
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IOSCO 2020 Questionnaire

BETTER FINANCE published its review of work carried out by IOSCO ...
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/ Consultations, Other

EIOPA Chair: «We created a monster»

Gabriel Bernardino, the Chairman of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), gave an impassioned and encouraging speech on « EIOPA’s priorities for consumer protection » at the BETTER ...
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London, 4 June 2014: the European financial consumer exclusion day?

BETTER FINANCE and other European organisations representing savers and financial users were quite disappointed by today’s «Consumer Protection Day » jointly organised by the three European financial Supervisory Authorities (Securities ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to the Informal Consultation of 14 May 2014 by OECD

BETTER FINANCE welcomes this informal consultation by OECD and congratulates the OECD Task Force on Financial Consumer Protection, as the “draft effective approaches to support the G20/OECD high-level principles on ...
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/ Consultations

Widespread support for the protection of financial end-users across the european political spectrum

Despite declaring that households are the main source of funds to finance long term investment in the European economy, the majority of MEPs who responded to the Questionnaire on the ...
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/ Press Releases

Review of the Shareholder Rights Directive: BETTER FINANCE asks for free of charge voting rights for individual EU shareholders

During a debate on the European Commission’s proposal to amend the Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD) held on the 12th of May in Brussels, Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, ...
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/ Press Releases