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BETTER FINANCE calls on EU legislators to stop helping the expansion of large (mostly non-EU) dark traders and to protect retail investors instead

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10 February 2023 | As EU policymakers continue their negotiations on the MiFIR review, BETTER FINANCE is increasingly alarmed that the regulation could severely hurt retail investors, by putting in place a market structure further benefitting dark Systematic Internalisers (SIs). Ignoring the previous plea from BETTER FINANCE and going against

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Great Returns for Great Values: the “Gateway to Responsible Investing” goes LIVE

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BETTER FINANCE is excited to announce the launch of its much-needed “Gateway to Responsible Investing”, responding to the lack of independent, transparent and clear information on how to invest in a climate-aligned and sustainable way! Besides providing educational information on matters such as ESG, impact investing and greenwashing, the gateway

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Ce a facut AURSF pentru romani in 2022

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Dragi prieteni, Anul 2022 a adus multe noutati in activitatea Asociatiei Utilizatorilor Romani de Servicii Financiare (AURSF), dar am continuat si proiectele incepute anterior. La nivel national, in 2022 AURSF a devenit membra a Consiliului Consultativ de pe langa Autoritatea Nationala pentru Protectia Consumatorilor (ANPC) si ne-am continuat activitatea in

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Potential ban on inducements reduced to false choice between “advice gap” and “biased advice”

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In response to warnings about an “advice gap” if inducements – or rather sales commissions – were to be banned, BETTER FINANCE stresses that there can be no “advice gap” if there’s no “advice”: biased advice is not really advice. The discussion in Brussels between advocates and opponents of bias-free

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Interventia AURSF a facut diferenta – Testimonial Cristinel Rizea

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Sunt beneficiarul unui credit imobiliar „Prima Casa” din anul 2019, la Raiffeisen Bank. La data semnarii contractului, dobanda creditului se calcula conform indicelui ROBOR 3M. In baza OUG 19/29.03.2019 pentru modificarea si completarea unor acte normative, se precizeaza ca dobanda creditului se poate schimba si calcula conform indicelui IRCC, in

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Joint Letter: Upcoming Retail Investment Strategy: debunking the “advice gap”

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On 28 November 2022, BETTER FINANCE together with BEUC and Finance Watch, published a public letter addressed to Vice-President Dombrovskis, and Commissioners McGuinness and Reynders, to encourage them to continue with an ambitious approach with regards to the Retail Investment Strategy and the stated goal of creating bias-free advice. Download

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Background: „EU Pensions seem doomed with ‘Financial Repression’ as the only game in town”

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Date: 10th October 2022 Author: BETTER FINANCE Type: Press Releases Eurozone inflation mushroomed from 3.4% to 10% in one year, further deepening Europe’s cost-of-living crisis, yet the best the European Central Bank (ECB) could muster is a late and timid hike of interest rate from 0 to 0.75%. Financial repression

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BETTER FINANCE Applauds and Supports Proposed Ban on Sales Commissions Paid to Retail Distributors of Investment Products

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Date: 25th October 2022 Author: BETTER FINANCE Type: Press Releases BETTER FINANCE considers the recent proposal to ban “inducements” (commissions) in “retail” investment services to be a very significant milestone in investor protection and firmly urges EU Member States to also support it. EU authorities are currently working on the

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