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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

Date: 11th October 2017 On 11 October, Sven Giegold (member of the European Parliament’s ECON Committee) reacted to the European Commission’s (EC) communication on the completion of the Banking Union (BU) in a Post on his blog. In particular, Giegold criticises the proposed interim steps to be taken in order

Date: 6th October 2017 For the first time a major asset manager will make performance fees that take investors’ interests into account and don’t just benefit providers. Fidelity announced that it will lower the basic charges applying to its fund range whilst at the same time introducing a performance fee

Date: 4th October 2017 I&P Europe reported today that the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will launch a new consultation with the British stakeholders concerning the main elements of the code of conduct it envisages for asset managers in the investment sector. The first report of the FCA, launched in