BETTER FINANCE Response to the Review of the EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act Technical Screening Criteria

The EU Taxonomy plays a central role in the EU sustainable finance framework by providing a common classification system for environmentally sustainable economic activities. Its purpose is to help investors, companies and ...

BETTER FINANCE Response to the Review of the EU Taxonomy Environmental Delegated Act Technical Screening Criteria

The EU Taxonomy plays a central role in the EU sustainable finance framework by providing a common classification system for environmentally sustainable economic activities. Its purpose is to help investors, ...

BETTER FINANCE Responds to Commission’s Legislative Proposal on PEPP

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the Commission’s proposals to amend the Regulation on a Pan-European Personal Pension (PEPP) product. As longtime supporters of the PEPP, we are pleased to see that the Commission remains committed to ensuring that a simple, cost-efficient ...

BETTER FINANCE Responds to Commission’s Legislative Proposal on IORPs

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the Commission’s proposed amendments to the IORP II framework. Occupational pension schemes hold great potential to improve European citizens’ retirement income as well as to deepen the EU’s capital markets, ...

BETTER FINANCE Responds to the Commission on the Proposed Revision of the SFDR

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to revise the SFDR and the move towards a clearer product categorisation framework. This is an important and necessary step towards improving legal ...

BETTER FINANCE Responds to the Commission’s Call on the Application of the “Do No Significant Harm” Principle

As the JRC found, DNSH is currently implemented through different methods, legal designs and assessment approaches across EU instruments. Public funding instruments use DNSH in different ways: to exclude harmful ...

BETTER FINANCE Feedback to the SIU | EU Rules to Foster Market Integration and Efficient Supervision (Master Regulation)

BETTER FINANCE supports the direction of the Master Regulation to integrate EU capital markets, with less cross-border friction and a stronger supervisory architecture. From our perspective, its value should lie ...

BETTER FINANCE Feedback to ​​the SIU | EU Rules to Foster Market Integration and Efficient Supervision (Master Directive)​

BETTER FINANCE supports the objectives of the MISP package and broadly welcomes the effort to remove barriers to cross-border activity and liquidity, streamline distribution, and reduce unnecessary intermediation, while preserving ...

Consultation Response to the Commission on European Venture and Growth Capital Funds Reform

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the Commission’s continued efforts towards deeper, better integrated financial markets, where individual investors can find a greater diversity of cost-efficient investment opportunities. ​The Commission’s intention to review ...

Consultation Response on Draft Revised Guidelines on Reporting and Public Disclosure – Solvency II Review

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published a Consultation Paper on the revised Guidelines on reporting and public disclosure. The proposals aim to keep the Guidelines fit for ...