European Commission Consultation: Improving the Situation of EU Citizens as Taxpayers for Direct and Indirect Tax
Following its Action Plan for Fair and Simple Taxation Supporting the Recovery Strategy, the Commission is taking stock of taxpayers' existing rights under EU law and issuing a Recommendation to ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to ESMA’s Consultation on Guidelines on certain aspects of the MiFID II appropriateness and execution-only requirements
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the initiative of ESMA to clarify certain aspects related to the application of the MiFID II provisions on the appropriateness test and requirements for execution-only services. In ...
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Commissioner McGuinness: “Putting people at the heart of the financial system is part of my vision”
On 22 April at the BETTER FINANCE’s international conference, high-level speakers and over 350 registered participants debated “How to make the EU Capital Markets Union (‘CMU’) work for people?”. For ...
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Capital Markets Union at Risk as European “Retail” Investors have less and less access to Equity Market Data
Access to equity market data is essential for “retail” investors to make informed investment decisions. However, new research by BETTER FINANCE [1] found that online equity market data published by the ...
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Consumer Access to EU Equity Trade Data
Access to equity market data is essential for “retail” investors to make informed investment decisions. However, new research by BETTER FINANCE found that online equity market data published by the ...
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BETTER FINANCE Position on Crypto Assets and Distributed Ledger Technology
Regulations on Markets in Crypto Assets and the EU Pilot Regime for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) based market infrastructures BETTER FINANCE welcomes the initiatives and efforts of EU public authorities ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s feedback to the European Commission Consultation on the Establishment of a European Single Access Point (ESAP)
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the Commission’s initiative to create a unique digital platform - a European Single Access Point - for investors to access all information about issuers of financial instruments ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the EC Public Consultation on the Review of European Long-term Investment Funds
The EU regulates two main mutual fund types: UCITS (undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities, the most “popular” among EU individual investors) and AlFs (alternative investment funds). AIFs are ...
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Joint BETTER FINANCE and CFA Institute Statement on the overdue PRIIPs Regulation review and UCITS funds’ exemption
EU authorities should prioritise the long overdue full PRIIPs Regulation review, and the UCITS funds’ exemption should be extended until this review is completed, as intended by EU Law. The ...
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