BETTER FINANCE Response to EFRAG Public Consultation on Development of the Exposure Draft for a Voluntary Standard for non-listed SMEs
BETTER FINANCE has submitted its response to the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group's (EFRAG) public consultation on the Voluntary Standard for non-listed SMEs (VSME ED). This standard aims to provide ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s Response to EIOPA’s Consultation on Prudential Treatment of Sustainability Risks
EIOPA analyses sustainability risks using both backward-looking historical data and forward-looking model assessments to evaluate the need for specific prudential treatment of transition risks. The analysis focuses particularly on equity ...
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BETTER FINANCE’s response to EIOPA’s consultation on Methodology on Value for Money benchmarks
BETTER FINANCE welcomes and supports EIOPA’s ongoing work on a supervisory toolkit to assess the value for money offered by unit linked and hybrid insurance products. Since its creation, BETTER ...
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BETTER FINANCE Opinion on Sustainability Claims and Greenwashing in the Insurance and Pensions Sectors
Sustainability claims refer to statements or representations about a product's or entity's sustainability profile, conveyed through text, visuals, or other media. These claims can be made across all stages of ...
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BETTER FINANCE answer to ESMA Discussion Paper on MiFID II investor protection topics linked to digitalisation
The document serves as BETTER FINANCE response to selected questions of ESMA's discussion paper on the implications of digitalisation for investor protection under MiFID II. The document “Discussion Paper on ...
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Targeted consultation on the implementation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR)
The Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) started applying in March 2021 and requires financial market participants and financial advisers to disclose at entity and product levels how they integrate sustainability ...
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BETTER FINANCE answer to SRDs’ Targeted Consultation – Shareholder Rights Directives (European Commission/CSES)
BETTER FINANCE's full Response to the Targeted Consultation on SRDs - Shareholder Rights Directives (SRD1 and SRD2) for the European Commission by the CSES — [15 December 2023]. BETTER FINANCE ...
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BETTER FINANCE feedback on the Open Finance Framework
BETTER FINANCE provided an initial feedback to the EC’s plans to create a system for accessing financial data (FIDA) to boost digital financial services by promoting competition. We suggest carefully ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the EIOPA consultation on Open Insurance
BETTER FINANCE strongly supports the intention to provide consumers with a clear and comprehensive view of their insurance policies, simplifying understanding and enabling easy product comparisons. BETTER FINANCE, however, has ...
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BETTER FINANCE Feedback to the European Commission’s Withholding taxes – FASTER Proposal
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the European Commission’s WHT FASTER Proposal that has the potential to bring procedural progress in addressing longstanding obstacles to tax recovery for investors dealing with their cross-border ...
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