BETTER FINANCE feedback to the Regulation on charges on cross-border payments in the EU and currency conversion charges
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this proposal to extend the Regulation on cross-border transactions to non-euro Member States for cross-border transactions in Euros sent or received within the EU. Transactions in Euros ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s feedback on a Simplified prospectus for companies and investors in Europe.
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this opportunity to comment on the European Commission’s roadmap on a “Simplified prospectus for companies and investors in Europe”. As representative of individual investors and savers, we ...
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BETTER FINANCE-Feedback on a directive on representative actions for the protection of collective interest of consumers FINAL 7.05.2018
An EU-wide collective redress mechanism for all financial services users such as savers, retail investors, life insurance policy holders, pension fund participants, small and individual shareholders or employee shareholders is ...
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BETTER FINANCE s feedback- IR on minimum requirements in the transmission of information for the exercise of shareholders rights
BETTER FINANCE congratulates the Expert Group on Technical Aspects of Corporate Governance Processes for their work. The Implementing Regulation (IR) takes important steps towards facilitating cross-border voting and ensures a ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s answer to the Public Consultation on the Fitness check on supervisory reporting
As a general remark, BETTER FINANCE sees values in ESAs being empowered with the collection of data from market players. However, under the present framework, ESAs do not have the ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the KPMG Survey on the functioning of the AIFMD
Private investors suffer from a plethora of funds in Europe compared to the US, the induced very small average size of EU domiciled funds is a key driver for fees ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the Consultation Paper on draft RTS under the new Prospectus Regulation
As a representative of individual investors and savers, we believe that the main concern is to provide investors with clear and concise information in order to give them a true ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s answer to the European Commission Fitness Check on Public reporting by companies
As a general comment, BETTER FINANCE believes that the current legislative framework regarding the reporting on ESG should be reviewed to introduce more standardisation in the disclosure process. Under the ...
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BETTER FINANCE answer to the EC Suitability Questionnaire on ESG Disclosure
As a representative of individual savers and investors in Europe, we believe that further ESG information in the Prospectus, Summary Prospectus, in the KIID (investment funds), in the KID and ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s feedback on a Proposal for a Directive amending Directive (EU) 2016/97 on Insurance Distribution
BETTER FINANCE regrets this postponing of the date of application. In our view, the industry had plenty of time since February 2016 to prepare for this new legislative framework which ...
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