BETTER FINANCE’s Open Letter on ESRS Sent to Commissioner Albuquerque
Dear Commissioner Albuquerque, I am writing to you in my capacity as Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users. We are the EU-level ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to the European Commission’s Citizens Omnibus Initiative on Reducing Administrative Burdens
BETTER FINANCE supports the Citizens' Omnibus initiative as an opportunity to ensure that EU financial services rules and markets work more effectively for individual investors, savers and pension beneficiaries. While ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to the European Commission’s Revised Sustainability Reporting Standard for Voluntary Use (VSME)
BETTER FINANCE supports efforts to reduce disproportionate reporting burdens and recognises the importance of ensuring that sustainability reporting frameworks remain proportionate and operationally feasible. Simplification can contribute to the competitiveness ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to the European Commission’s Revised Mandatory Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the substantial simplification already achieved through EFRAG’s revised ESRS and supports efforts to reduce disproportionate reporting burdens. BETTER FINANCE also welcomes the retention of important principles including ...
BETTER FINANCE Responds to Commission’s Consultation on the Update of the Rules on Shareholder Rights
For individual investors, a reviewed European shareholder rights framework (moving from SRDII towards an SRDIII, or best, in part as an SRR regulation) must finally make AGM participation – or ...
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 ...
Transition Investing | Key Challenges and Opportunities | 2025 Report
Transition investing, or investing in emission-reducing activities, has not become obsolete in 2025. Global investment amounted to about $2.1 trillion in 2024, led by renewables, electric vehicles, and grids. China ...
BETTER FINANCE Warns Against Counterproductive Outcomes from the SFDR Review
As the European Commission prepares to publish its review proposal of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, calls for ...
BETTER FINANCE Welcomes the European Parliament’s Decision on the Omnibus File
This week’s decision by the European Parliament not to forward the Omnibus I Package to trilogue negotiations marks both a moment of opportunity and of caution for the future of ...
