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Our Research & Policy Aim

As a public interest organisation, BETTER FINANCE is committed to advancing the interests of individual investors and users of financial services throughout the European Union.

Our Goal

Our goal is to promote transparency, long-term value, and consumer protection in financial markets, ensuring that retail investors have a strong voice in policy discussions.

Our Approach

Working collaboratively with our member organisations, BETTER FINANCE undertakes rigorous analysis and research, engages in stakeholder consultations, and solicits expert contributions, resulting in well-informed, data-driven policy recommendations.

This approach ensures that EU financial regulations align with the interests of European citizens.

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New measures to ensure MiFID II capital market structures

In view of the most recent European Council Presidency progress report, EuroFinUse - the European Federation of Financial Services Users -identified room for improvement before the final MiFID II text ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

Response by EuroFinUSe to the AMF Consultation on the prevention of creeping takeovers and the promotion of mid and long term shareholder engagement

EuroFinUse directs the attention of the French public authorities to the serious defects of regulatory governance and financial supervision in France. EuroFinUse opposes to takeovers when small shareholders are deprived ...
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/ Consultations

EuroFinuse Presentation on “What can the Audit Committee do better?”

EuroFinUse participated on the FEE Roundtable on the functioning of audit committees and Jella Benner-Heinacher presented shareholders's perspectives. The board acts as the agent of all shareholders and the quality ...
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/ Position Papers

EuroFinUse Position Paper on the Reform of EU banking structures

On an EPFSF event in January 2013, Guillaume Prache, EuroFinUse's Managing Director, called for a real separation of commercial banking from market and investment banking; stressed that the financial crisis ...
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/ Position Papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

European individual investors support the proposals of the European Parliament Rapporteur on Packaged Retail Investment Products

MEP Pervenche Beres, ECON Committee rapporteur for the PRIPs Regulation has just released her report and amendment proposals for this Regulation proposed by the Commission. The amendments match the main ...
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EuroFinuse Position Paper on performance fees (UCITS V)

EuroFinuse, the European Federation of Financial Services Users, is closely following the debate on the “UCITS V Directive” that is currently focusing on depositories’ liabilities and asset managers’ remuneration. These ...
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/ Position Papers

EuroFinUse Position Paper on PRIPs Regulation

EuroFinUse shows its concerns on the long awaited Regulation on Key Information Documents for investment products that will unfortunately, and contrary to the original aim, only address the harmonization and ...
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/ Position Papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

EuroFinUse Response to the Third Pillar Retirement Products Questionaire

EuroFinuse is extremely concerned by the urgently needed development of second and third pillar pension products in the European Union, in view of the current restraints for welfare policies due ...
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/ Consultations, Life Insurance & Pensions

Consultation on the Regulation of Indices

EuroFinuse welcomes the consultation from the EC on the regulation of indices. Individual financial services users are indeed using indices a lot either willingly or unwillingly: As investors and savers ...
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/ Consultations

Response to the EC Consultation on the recommendations of the Liikanen Group on reforming the structure of the EU banking sector

EuroFinuse agrees with the general recommendation of the Expert Group on the necessity of legal separation between risky financial activities from deposit-taking activities within a banking group. We agree as ...
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/ Consultations

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