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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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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

‘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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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

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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/ Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

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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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Individual Shareholder Representative Selected by EC to Advise on Implementation SRD

BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce that Christiane Hölz will represent BETTER FINANCE and DSW, BETTER FINANCE’s German member organisation, at the Commission Expert Group on Technical Aspects of Corporate ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Banca MPS and Individual Shareholders: Damage Mock And Guilty Conscience

BETTER FINANCE supports Azione MPS's position in BANCA MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA rescue plan ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

Banco Popular – AEMEC announcement

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL SHAREHOLDERS OF BANCO POPULAR: protect your investment in Banco Popular ...
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/ Public Letters, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

CHECKYOURFUND.EU GOES LIVE – RESULTS OF CLOSET INDEXING STUDY NOW SEARCHABLE ONLINE

A little more than a week ago, BETTER FINANCE announced the results of its replication of the ESMA investigation into Closet Indexing. Following up on this announcement, today BETTER FINANCE ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

BETTER FINANCE Replicates and Discloses ESMA Findings on Closet Indexing

BETTER FINANCE helps investors identify potential falsely active funds (“closet indexers”), and asks regulators to investigate further: It replicated the ESMA study on closet indexing and identified up to 165 ...
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/ Position Papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Closet Indexing Study – Annex 1.E. – Potential Closet Indexers 165 funds

ANNEX 1E BETTER FINANCE helps investors identify potential falsely active funds (“closet indexers”), and asks regulators to investigate further: It replicated the ESMA study on closet indexing and identified up ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance