BETTER FINANCE Responds to ESMA Call for Evidence on the Market Structure of European Equity Markets
BETTER FINANCE welcomes ESMA’s Call for Evidence on the market structure of European equity markets. While the questions are technical in nature, the key issue for retail investors should not ...
A New Route to Private Markets? Evaluating ELTIFs for Retail Access
This paper evaluates whether European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs) are the most appropriate vehicle for expanding retail investor access to private markets under the EU’s Savings and Investments Union (SIU) ...
Reykjavík Conference Highlights Need for Fairer Taxation to Protect Savers and Strengthen Retail Investment in Europe
On Thursday 18 June, policymakers, economists, investor representatives and market experts gathered at Harpa Conference Centre in Reykjavík for BETTER FINANCE's international conference Protecting Purchasing Power: Taxation, Inflation and Investments ...
BETTER FINANCE Feedback to the SIU | EU Rules to Foster Market Integration and Efficient Supervision (Master Regulation)
BETTER FINANCE supports the direction of the Master Regulation to integrate EU capital markets, with less cross-border friction and a stronger supervisory architecture. From our perspective, its value should lie ...
BETTER FINANCE Feedback to the SIU | EU Rules to Foster Market Integration and Efficient Supervision (Master Directive)
BETTER FINANCE supports the objectives of the MISP package and broadly welcomes the effort to remove barriers to cross-border activity and liquidity, streamline distribution, and reduce unnecessary intermediation, while preserving ...
Consultation Response to the Commission on European Venture and Growth Capital Funds Reform
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the Commission’s continued efforts towards deeper, better integrated financial markets, where individual investors can find a greater diversity of cost-efficient investment opportunities. The Commission’s intention to review ...
Financial Advice in the EU | Mapping the Rules Protecting Individual Investors
As announced in the Communication on the Savings and Investments Union (SIU)1, the European Commission aims to give European citizens broader access to capital markets and companies better financing options. This renewed policy agenda builds on the still incomplete Banking Union (BU) but also, ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to the European Commission Feedback for Short-Form Prospectuses
BETTER FINANCE supports the EC’s objective to operationalise the Listing Act with shorter, reduced-burden prospectuses. We acknowledge the proposal to align further the “Follow-on” and the “Growth prospectuses” with the sequence of ...
When Companies Leave the Market | Strengthening Investor Protection in Europe’s Delisting Landscape
Listing and delisting are the entry and exit doors of public equity markets, yet only the former has meaningfully shaped EU policymaking. Recent reforms — most notably the 2024 Listing Act — focused on ...
BETTER FINANCE & FESE Joint Statement: Urgent Call to Make EU Capital Markets Deeper and More Attractive
A renewed vision for Europe’s capital markets Mario Draghi’s Report highlighted that Europe’s capital markets should finance growth and innovation, yet they remain fragmented and underperforming. A year later, European ...
