Consultation Response on the Integration of EU Capital Markets
BETTER FINANCE Responds to the European Commission’s Targeted Consultation on the Integration of EU Capital Markets BETTER FINANCE welcomes the comprehensive examination that the European Commission is undertaking of the ...
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Consultation Response on Draft ITS on Alleviated Insider Lists
BETTER FINANCE Responds to Consultation Paper on the Draft Implementing Technical Standards on the Extension of the Use of the Alleviated Format of Insider Lists The European Commission argues that ...
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Response to ESMA Consultation on the Guidelines on Prospectus Supplements
BETTER FINANCE Responds to ESMA Public Consultation on the Guidelines on Supplements Which Introduce New Securities to a Base Prospectus BETTER FINANCE welcomes ESMA's initiative to clarify when a supplement ...
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Neobrokers – Trading Fractions Reinventing Retail Ownership and Challenging Regulation
A BETTER FINANCE Focused Paper on Fractional Investing The rapid expansion of neobrokers across the European Union has fundamentally reshaped the retail investment landscape by introducing mobile-first, low-cost platforms characterised ...
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BETTER FINANCE Open Letter to UniCredit Board of Directors
BETTER FINANCE expresses serious concerns over the abrupt and unilateral termination of the financial instruments custody agreement between Zagrebačka banka (UniCredit) and VZMD (Pan-Slovenian Stakeholders' Association). The termination has left ...
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BETTER FINANCE Answer to ESMA Consultation Paper on Draft RTS for the Establishment of an EU Code of Conduct for Issuer-Sponsored Research (Listing Act-MiFID)
Following the Listing Act Package, BETTER FINANCE strongly supports ESMA’s initiative to introduce an EU Code of Conduct (CoC) for issuer-sponsored research, developed under Article 24(3c) of MiFID II. The draft RTS ...
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SIU: Improve EU Economy Funding and Address the Pension Gap
Key Actions for Advancing the Savings & Investments Union – Presentation to ESMA's Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group Advisory Group This presentation, delivered during the ESMA Securities and Markets Stakeholder ...
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ESMA Reveals EU Individual Investors Still Losing Out: High Costs, Low Returns, and Ineffective Fund Management
Brussels | Press Release The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has just released its annual report on the costs and performance of EU retail investment products. While the report ...
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BETTER FINANCE Raises Alarm: Is the EU’s Push for Securitisation Revival Putting Financial Stability at Risk?
Brussels | Press Release BETTER FINANCE, the leading voice for EU savers and individual investors, opposes the political push to "revive" the securitisation market in the European Union. In its ...
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Targeted Consultation on the EU’s Securitisation Framework
BETTER FINANCE, the main organisation representing EU citizens in their capacity of savers and individual investors, wishes to express its concerns with the political support for a "relaunch" or "revival" ...
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