Autor: Dan Cristian

Date: 10th November 2017 Applied since 2007, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) constituted the EU regulatory basis for practicing investment services and trading financial instruments within the Common market. This legislative instrument has regulated the markets based on the four principles of integration, transparency, efficiency and fairness. In

Date: 8th November 2017 European and national competent authorities are moving towards adopting more stringent rules on transparency for IORPs, UCITs and life-insurance products, and conducting closer supervision of the activities of private financial institutions. A first move by the European Commission came in the shape of the Insurance Distribution

Date: 8th November 2017 In line with the Commission’s proposal to introduce a Pan-European Pensions Product to supplement the low pension replacement rate for European citizens (see the BETTER FINANCE Pensions Report 2017), the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) proposed a single framework allowing for regular reporting requests

Date: 8th November 2017 Author: BETTER FINANCE Madrid – Today BETTER FINANCE’s Managing Director, Guillaume Prache, addressed the Santander International Banking Conference and called on the industry and regulators for more transparency on performances and fees as well as decent and higher returns for pension savings products: a requisite for

Date: 3rd November 2017 In September 2015, the European Commission (EC) proposed a Regulation on Securitisation, along with the Regulation on Capital Requirements, as part of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) action plan. Under the objective of increasing banks’ lending capacity, the regulation for simple, transparent and standardised (STS) securitisation

Date: 25th October 2017 In a press release on 24 October 2017 the French Financial Markets Supervisor (Autorité des Marchés Financiers, AMF) announced that, in light of the transposition of the new Shareholders Rights Directive (EU 2017/828), it will establish a Working Group to continue research on, and enhance, voting

Date: 23rd October 2017 In November 2015, the European Commission (EC) proposed a regulation for a common system within the Single Market to guarantee savings in case of a bank defaults. This system, the European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS), is meant to complement the common banking supervision mechanism and the

Date: 13th October 2017 Funds Europe reported that financial services markets are expected to generate higher returns in the forthcoming year, according to ‘[a]lmost half (48%) of UK financial advisers’. The financial forecast is based on the Advisers Attitude Report 2017 of Aegon, a company that provides life insurances, pension