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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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CESR Technical Advice in the Context of the MiFID Review – Investor Protection and Intermediaries

Investor protection is one of the key objectives of the MiFID Directive. EuroFinuse is pleased that CESR has launched a consultation on this critical issue, especially after more than two ...
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Changes to the Capital Requirement Directive

We do not believe a regulatory initiative such as the changes to the Capital Requirements Directive really addresses the major issue revealed by the financial crisis. The roots of the ...
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“Packaged” Retail Investment Products (PRIPs)

We strongly support the new “horizontal” approach of the EC, which is the right way to look at the distribution of retail investment products, as most of them are “substitute” ...
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/ Position Papers, Packaged Investment Products, Product governance & disclosures

La premiere alliance europeenne de tous les epargnants

Pour la première fois, toutes les catégories d’épargnants (actionnaires individuels, souscripteurs de fonds de placement (OPCVM), assurés vie, épargnants bancaires, participants des fonds de pension et autres utilisateurs de services ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions

CESR’s technical advice at level 2 on the format and content of Key Information Document disclosures for UCITS

We have worked extensively on the KID project over the last two years, and feel that CESR is now getting close to fulfilling the mandate given by the European Commission ...
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/ Consultations, Packaged Investment Products, Product governance & disclosures

First European Alliance for all individual investors

For the first time, all types of individual investors such as shareholders, fund investors, insurance policy holders, bank savers, pension funds participants and other financial services users have teamed together ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions

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