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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

For a Consolidated Tape of Capital Market Trades that brings Value to Individual Investors

Available data and evidence shows significant increases in the trading and investing activity of EU households, sparked by a new wave of young, previously inactive, non-professional investors. Many EU retail ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), Securities Markets & Trading

BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission Consultation on Distance Marketing of Consumer Financial Services

In the 2017 EC Consumer Finance Action Plan, the Commission undertook to monitor the distance selling market of retail financial services in order to identify the potential consumer risks and ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Banking, FinTech, Supervision & Redress

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 EIOPA Public Consultation on Technical Advice on Pension Tracking Systems

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the establishment of Pension Tracking Systems (PTS) in each EU Member State as a pivotal step towards achieving pension adequacy. EU citizens, being able to easily monitor ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Life Insurance & Pensions

BETTER FINANCE Response to the Joint ESAs Consultation concerning Taxonomy-related sustainability disclosures

The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) - EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA issued a consultation paper setting out the proposed Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) setting out the content and presentation of the ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE’s feedback to the EU Commission proposal on a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence

The European Commission has proposed a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence act) and amending certain union legislative acts. The purpose of this regulation is to ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, FinTech, Robo-advice

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