Categorie: ENGLISH AREA

Date: 24th August 2017 At the end of last year, the European Commission emphasised the potential high performance of green bonds, following a study it conducted on climate and environment investing. The Commission’s study revealed that the European green bond market developed rapidly since its launch in 2007, signalling growth

Date: 22nd August 2017 In 2016, the European Commission adopted the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) widening the Insurance Mediation Directive’s (IMD) scope with the aim of increasing transparency of price and costs of insurance products. The new directive introduces a simple, standardized insurance product information document (IPID) which provides clearer

Date: 17th August 2017 As more and more investors consider passive investing (and therefore lower management fees), the question whether active funds managers can stop this migration to passive funds looms large on the horizon. As alluded to by the Financial Times in one of its recent articles, a potential

Date: 9th August 2017 Saving Banco Popular… On the 7th of June, the European Commission approved the rules for the rescue plan of Banco Popular proposed by the Single Resolution Board under the EU bank recovery and resolution directive. The Bank was sold to Santander for a symbolic €1. The

Date: 4th August 2017 The fallout from Dieselgate continues to harm VW’s reputation and market value, thereby negatively impacting investor interests. After one year and half of investigation, VW stands accused by OLAF of fraudulently securing € 400 million in loans from the EIB to develop the engine (equipped with

Date: 19th July 2017 According to a Belgian law passed in 1980, only professionals can benefit from a tax deduction. An individual shareholder of a foreign company will first be taxed abroad on his financial assets and will then be taxed in Belgium. In its ruling handed down by the

Date: 18th July 2017 Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE spoke this morning at the Public Hearing on Sustainable Finance. He reminded that EU savers and individual investors are mostly long-term oriented (much more than institutional investors) and represent the main source of the long-term funding of the EU

Date: 14th July 2017 Sven Giegold, German MEP and member of the ECON Committee of the European Parliament will keep fighting to introduce a reform of regulation pertaining to performance fees as part of the Action Plan of the Capital Market Union. In July 2016, his proposal to introduce such