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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EU Ecolabel for Financial Products: 1st Stakeholder Questionnaire on the product scope and criteria definition
BETTER FINANCE's response to the questionnaire on the development of EU Ecolabel criteria for financial products ...
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MERCK Wins the EUROSHAREHOLDERS’ Awards Thanks to most Shareholder-friendly Director’s Pay System
28 November 2018 - Yesterday evening Euroshareholders, the shareholders branch of BETTER FINANCE, announced the winners of the 2018 Euroshareholders Awards at a ceremony in Wiesbaden, Germany. This year, the ...
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Reservations regarding the proposed Market in Financial Instruments Act (ZTFI-1)
We are alarmed that for the second time in less than two years the Republic of Slovenia moves to curtail the options available to minority shareholders to mitigate the burden ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s feedback on a Simplified prospectus for companies and investors in Europe.
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this opportunity to comment on the European Commission’s roadmap on a “Simplified prospectus for companies and investors in Europe”. As representative of individual investors and savers, we ...
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BETTER FINANCE s feedback- IR on minimum requirements in the transmission of information for the exercise of shareholders rights
BETTER FINANCE congratulates the Expert Group on Technical Aspects of Corporate Governance Processes for their work. The Implementing Regulation (IR) takes important steps towards facilitating cross-border voting and ensures a ...
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Shareholders rights directive implementing acts last chance to ensure rights of individual shareholders taken into account
Over the last few years, the European Union (EU) has been trying to facilitate the exercise of shareholders’ rights by updating the Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II). The revised Directive ...
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‘NEW DEAL FOR CONSUMERS’ – AN IMPORTANT BREAKTHROUGH FOR MANY FINANCIAL SERVICES USERS BUT NOT FOR EU CITIZENS AS INDIVIDUAL SHAREHOLDERS
Many financial services providers already operate across borders in different Member States. Like for other sectors, the case for EU-wide collective redress for financial services is clear and in the ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the Consultation Paper on draft RTS under the new Prospectus Regulation
As a representative of individual investors and savers, we believe that the main concern is to provide investors with clear and concise information in order to give them a true ...
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WILLINGNESS OF EU MEMBER STATES CRUCIAL FOR ENDING DOUBLE TAXATION OF INVESTMENT INCOME WITHIN THE EU
Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, was invited to address the European Commission’s (EC) ‘Public Hearing on a simpler Withholding Tax procedure for Europe’. The EC just released a ...
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