Buying Crypto? You May Not Know What You’re Getting – or Who’s Responsible When Things Go Wrong
BETTER FINANCE calls on the EU to close dangerous gaps in crypto investor protection Buying crypto-assets has never been easier. But do investors really know what they are buying, what ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to Public Consultation on the Review of Regulation on the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the review of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), while offering preliminary views on the broader regulatory challenges arising from digitalisation, tokenisation ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to Targeted Consultation on the Review of Regulation on the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the review of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). We regard MiCAR as a sound foundation ...
EU Crypto Investors Still Struggle to Find Basic Information Despite MiCA
Researchers expose major gaps in disclosures as crypto becomes increasingly mainstream Crypto is going mainstream in Europe, but investors still cannot always find the essential information they need to understand ...
EU Sustainable Finance Rules Must Deliver Clarity, Credibility and Real Impact for Citizens, Says BETTER FINANCE
BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to revise the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), stressing that the reform must put ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to Commission’s Legislative Proposal on IORPs
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the Commission’s proposed amendments to the IORP II framework. Occupational pension schemes hold great potential to improve European citizens’ retirement income as well as to deepen the EU’s capital markets, ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to the Commission on the Proposed Revision of the SFDR
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to revise the SFDR and the move towards a clearer product categorisation framework. This is an important and necessary step towards improving legal ...
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 ...
BETTER FINANCE Welcomes Simplified EU Sustainability Standards, with a Note of Caution
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the submission of EFRAG’s revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) to the European Commission as part of the EU’s drive to simplify sustainability reporting. The amended standards ...
