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Date: 27th August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), in accordance with their mission to enhance investor protection and promote stable and orderly financial markets, announced today that they have agreed to renew the prohibition of the marketing, distribution or sale of binary options to
Date: 28th August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE We are delighted to announce that Judith Hardt joined the BETTER FINANCE team in August 2018. With a substantial track record in leading European associations specialized in financial services, she joined BETTER FINANCE as Senior Advisor. Until June 2018, Judith was the Managing
Date: 21st August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE In last week’s extensive article entitled Pressures on Slovenia, Which Are Not Discussed Publicly (www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/pritiski-na-slovenijo-o-katerih-se-na-glas-ne-govori-81803.html), the leading newspaper (Delo) disclosed the continuous and ever greater pressures on Slovenia to withdraw from the investigation of these acts, despite reasonable grounds for suspecting that in
Date: 20th August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE It is with sadness that BETTER FINANCE learned that Soner Bahcuvan recently passed away. He was a great friend of our organisation and, apart from his close involvement with the European Federation of Investors, instrumental in involving Boryad – the Turkish Exchange Traders
Date: 1st August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE With its Communication of July 19, the European Commission reaffirmed the illegality of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties(intra-EU BITs) and stated that ”EU investors cannot invoke intra-EU BITs, which are incompatible with Union law and no longer necessary in the single market’’. Intra-EU BITs
Date: 1st August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) initiated a peer review and published a report that found that six national competent authorities (NCAs) need to enhance their supervision of Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS) operating with Efficient Portfolio Management Techniques
Date: 30th July 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE On the 13th of July the Dutch Court of Appeal endorsed the agreement between Ageas, the legal heir of Fortis, and the organisations representing the abused shareholders. A deal has been reached ten years after the dismantling of Fortis, with a sum of
Date: 30th July 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE In June 2018 the ECON committee of the European Parliament published a study titled “Subordinated Debt and Self-placement: Mis-selling of Financial Products”. After five years of very diverse interpretations and applications of so-called “burden sharing” in bank recovery and resolution, also known as