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Euroshareholders

As part of BETTER FINANCE and through the EuroVote platform, Euroshareholders represents the interest of individual shareholders and seeks to improve corporate governance in the European Union.

EuroInvestors

BETTER FINANCE represents individual investors other than shareholders and keeps a close eye on crucial developments in terms of sustainable finance and the development of a Capital Markets Union.

EuroFinUse

BETTER FINANCE represents all other users of financial services across the European Union and works to improve horizontal issues such as supervision, enforcement and investor education.

Publications

BETTER FINANCE response to the call for feedback to the Platform on Sustainable Finance’s draft report on social taxonomy

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the horizontal and vertical dimensions represented in the objectives of the taxonomy. Furthermore, we would like to suggest expanding the horizontal dimension based on the promotion of ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the EU Strategy for Retail Investors

BETTER FINANCE welcomes this consultation from the EC on a much-awaited and needed strategy for retail investors, and fully supports its clearly stated objectives, as defined in the EC CMU ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), FinTech, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the EU Strategy for Retail Investors – Annex 1

In our view, the Strategy for Retail Investors (the topic of this consultation) and the Capital Markets Union project are strongly interlinked as both share the aim to promote more ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), CMU Barometer, Financial Education, FinTech, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the EU Strategy for Retail Investors – Annex 2

Annex 2: Individual investor behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis in selected jurisdictions In the first edition of the half-annual report on Trends, Risks, and Vulnerabilities (no. 1, 2021) on EU ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), Financial Education, FinTech, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE feedback to ESMA’s call for evidence on Digital Finance

Technological innovation is transforming financial services at an unprecedented speed, by facilitating new business models and services and the entrance of new market participants. Covid-19 is accelerating this shift and ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), FinTech

BETTER FINANCE response to the FCA Consultation on a New Consumer Duty

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the FCA's proposal on consumer duty. We consider the general duty of care to be at the core of investor protection in securities markets. In fact, in ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE reply to EIOPA’s Public Consultation on a ‘Framework to address value for money risk in the European unit-linked market’

BETTER FINANCE welcomes this unique initiative from EIOPA as an example of best practice in terms of supervision and investor protection, not only at the EU level but on the ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations

BETTER FINANCE feedback on Corporate Sustainability reporting

In May 2018, The European Parliament called for further developments of reporting requirements in the framework of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD). In December 2020, a resolution on Sustainable Corporate ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Financial Reporting & Audit

Taxonomy Delegated Act Article 8 – Obligation for certain companies to publish non-financial information

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the Delegated act obligations for certain large undertakings to publish non-financial information. The rules set out in the delegated act clarify and allow for the translation of ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations

European Commission Consultation: Improving the Situation of EU Citizens as Taxpayers for Direct and Indirect Tax

Following its Action Plan for Fair and Simple Taxation Supporting the Recovery Strategy, the Commission is taking stock of taxpayers' existing rights under EU law and issuing a Recommendation to ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU)