BETTER FINANCE Position Paper on the Intra-EU Investment Facilitation Initiative
With the termination of the intra-EU bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in 2020 – which received significant criticism for overlapping with the EU single market rules – the EC launched an ...
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Comments from the Coalition of NGOs on the EU Ecolabel criteria for Retail Financial Products – Technical Report 3.0
While the aim of the EU Ecolabel should be to guide retail investors towards truly sustainable financial products, and at the same time avoid the greenwashing of unsustainable investments, the ...
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BETTER FINANCE Position on the EC Proposal for an EU Recovery Prospectus
The BETTER FINANCE welcomes the proposal put forward by the European Commission to simplify Prospectus disclosure rules for equity issuers in order to stimulate equity financing by companies in need ...
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BETTER FINANCE Position on the Impact of Monetary Policy on Global Challenges and the European Central Bank
BETTER FINANCE thanks the ECB for this initiative to reach out to EU citizens as users of financial services and to the “civil society” at large. We acknowledge the major ...
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BETTER FINANCE Position Paper on Digital Finance Strategy
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the ECON’s legislative own-initiative report on Digital Finance assessing the regulatory and supervisory challenges on the digital financial market in order to guarantee a resilient digital financial ...
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Joint NGOs Position on the EU Ecolabel for Retail Financial Products and comments on the Technical Report 2.0
The Commission is currently developing the EU Ecolabel for Retail Financial Products within the framework of the Sustainable Finance Action Plan. The Joint Research Center (JRC) has presented a proposal ...
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BETTER FINANCE Position paper on the New Consumer Agenda
The EU Commission intends to update the current Consumer Agenda (2012), which expires in 2020, to address the role of consumers in the post-crisis economic recovery, as expressed in the EU’s ...
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BETTER FINANCE recommendations for the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee’s report on the Further Development of the Capital Markets Union (CMU): Improving Access to Capital Market Finance, in particular by SMEs, and Further Enabling Retail Investor Participation
BETTER FINANCE – one of the only two individual user side members of the European Commission’s “High Level Forum on the CMU” - firmly advocates for a Capital Markets Union ...
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BETTER FINANCE Position Paper on Digital Finance Strategy
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the ECON’s legislative own-initiative report on Digital Finance to assess the regulatory and supervisory challenges on the digital financial market in order to guarantee a resilient digital ...
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BETTER FINANCE PEPP Position Paper L2
BETTER FINANCE published its Position Paper on the implementing measures (level 2) for the Pan-European Personal Pension (PEPP) product. These measures will be based on the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) ...
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