BETTER FINANCE’s response to ESMA’s Consultation on the review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive
Executive Summary BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, welcomes the work undertaken by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) towards reviewing the UCITS Eligible ...
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BETTER FINANCE answer to SRD Follow-up consultation (CSES/European Commission)
BETTER FINANCE continues to provide input to shareholders' rights consultations. We had previously highlighted the need for enforcing shareholders' rights, intermediary's chain transparency, streamlining of engagement process (such as voting ...
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BETTER FINANCE answer to ESMA Consultation Paper on the draft guidelines on reverse solicitation under the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA)
BETTER FINANCE supports ESMA’s broad approach to guiding prudential regulation concerning the solicitation of EU clients by third-country firms, which is essential to protect European consumers from non-MICA compliant entities ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to EFRAG Public Consultation on Development of the Exposure Draft for a Voluntary Standard for non-listed SMEs
BETTER FINANCE has submitted its response to the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group's (EFRAG) public consultation on the Voluntary Standard for non-listed SMEs (VSME ED). This standard aims to provide ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s response to EIOPA’s consultation on Methodology on Value for Money benchmarks
BETTER FINANCE welcomes and supports EIOPA’s ongoing work on a supervisory toolkit to assess the value for money offered by unit linked and hybrid insurance products. Since its creation, BETTER ...
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BETTER FINANCE answer to ESMA Discussion Paper on MiFID II investor protection topics linked to digitalisation
The document serves as BETTER FINANCE response to selected questions of ESMA's discussion paper on the implications of digitalisation for investor protection under MiFID II. The document “Discussion Paper on ...
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Targeted consultation on the implementation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR)
The Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) started applying in March 2021 and requires financial market participants and financial advisers to disclose at entity and product levels how they integrate sustainability ...
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BETTER FINANCE answer to SRDs’ Targeted Consultation – Shareholder Rights Directives (European Commission/CSES)
BETTER FINANCE's full Response to the Targeted Consultation on SRDs - Shareholder Rights Directives (SRD1 and SRD2) for the European Commission by the CSES — [15 December 2023]. BETTER FINANCE ...
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BETTER FINANCE feedback on the Open Finance Framework
BETTER FINANCE provided an initial feedback to the EC’s plans to create a system for accessing financial data (FIDA) to boost digital financial services by promoting competition. We suggest carefully ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the EIOPA consultation on Open Insurance
BETTER FINANCE strongly supports the intention to provide consumers with a clear and comprehensive view of their insurance policies, simplifying understanding and enabling easy product comparisons. BETTER FINANCE, however, has ...
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