Open Letter: “MiFID II rules for ‘Systematic Internalisers’ will hurt European investors”

In principle, European individual Investors welcome the introduction of the new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). However, given BETTER FINANCE’s priority to ensure the protection of individual European ...
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Banco Popular – AEMEC announcement

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL SHAREHOLDERS OF BANCO POPULAR: protect your investment in Banco Popular ...
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Open Letter to the European Commission on Closet Indexing

A PRIIPs Regulation that contradicts or fails to take into account disclosure requirements in other Directives and Regulations will simply add confusion for all stakeholders involved and significantly undermines investor ...
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Support for the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders’ Association (VZMD) to oppose Slovenian Government legislative proposals against the interests of small Slovenian shareholders

It has been brought to our attention by the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders’ Association (VZMD), which is one of our most engaged and dedicated members, that the Republic of Slovenia intends to ...
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Joint EFAMA – BETTER FINANCE letter on the implementing rules for the PRIIPs KID

BETTER FINANCE and EFAMA have always been strong supporters of the “PRIIPs” Key Information Document (“KID”), seeing it as a powerful instrument for retail investors to enable sound investment choices ...
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Open letter in response to the EC letter on Romanian financial legislation

A letter by the European Commission to the Romanian Minister of Public Finance, Ms Anca Dragu, was very critical of the adoption of the "datio in solutum" law aimed at ...
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Letter to the EC and Government of Slovenia regarding the bail-in of subordinated bondholders

In December 2013 the subordinated bondholders in five Slovenian banks (NLB, NKBM, Abanka, Probanka and Factor Banka) were bailed-in to refinance these struggling institutions. Subordinated bonds in a sixth bank ...
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Letter to DG FISMA regarding closet indexing disclosure

In 2014, the Danish financial supervisor revealed it had found that almost a third of Danish equity funds were in effect expensive clones of the indices, or « closet indexers ...
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FSUG Letter to the EC on the elimination of past performance in the contents of the Key Information Document

The FSUG is of the view that eliminating standardised, easily comparable data on past performance will be a regressive step for investors and will reverse some of the partial progress ...
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BETTER FINANCE letter to MEP Brian Hayes: Key and comparable information to EU pension savers eliminated from IORP II

BETTER FINANCE wrote a letter to MEP Brian Hayes regarding the ECON vote on IORP II. The letter expresses BETTER FINANCE’s concern regarding the proposed Amendments in the ECON draft ...
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