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Date: 4th October 2017 The report by Corporate Europe Observatory (CE) on the external advisory groups to the European Central Bank (ECB) concludes that a very large proportion of its counselling on monetary policy comes from ‘representatives of some of the most influential global financial corporations’. The news item published

Date: 27th September 2017 Author: BETTER FINANCE Following the adoption of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) [1], which was meant to improve the ‘protection of consumers and retail investors buying insurance products or insurance-based investment product’ [2] by ‘increasing transparency of price and costs of insurance products’ [3], by disclosing

Date: 26th September 2017 Fully in line with BETTER FINANCE’s 2017 Briefing Paper on mis-selling of financial products as well as its study into the issue of Closet Indexing at the beginning of the year, the European Parliament’s ECON committee is now commissioning a study into the mis-selling of financial

Date: 26th September 2017 World Investor Week (WIW) is a week-long, global campaign promoted by IOSCO to raise awareness about the importance of investor education and protection and highlight the various initiatives of securities regulators in these two critical areas. From 2-8 October 2017, IOSCO securities regulators and other IOSCO

Date: 20th September 2017 In spite of the June 2016 UK referendum to leave the EU, British professional associations continue to show support for the Community method and for deeper economic integration. In the context of financial services, following the IRSG proposal to the British Government for the mutual access

Date: 7th September 2017 “Whistle-blowing“ is one of the most important tools to fight singular or structural breaches of law in EU Member States.[1] According to the European Commission, whistle-blowing is a form of reporting or disclosing acts or omissions that ‘represent a threat or harm to the public interest

Date: 31st August 2017 Traditionally, the dichotomy of investment models consists of active investing and passive investing, also known as indexing. To these two, financial researchers are striving to add a new category, which is commonly referred to as evidence-based investing. In the active investment sector, brokers and fund managers

Date: 25th August 2017 The European Securities and Markets Authority announced its annual Conference on ‘The State of European Financial Markets’, to be held on the 17th of October in The Westin Grand Paris – Vendôme. The Conference is set to address the most important topics in the field of