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Date: 22nd February 2023 Author: BETTER FINANCE Type: Press Releases BETTER FINANCE, The European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, joins forces with Stichting Investor Loss Compensation (SILC), assisting Airbus shareholders recover losses resulting from Airbus’ involvement in bribery practices and other wrongful conducts. Largest ever penalty on global
10 February 2023 | As EU policymakers continue their negotiations on the MiFIR review, BETTER FINANCE is increasingly alarmed that the regulation could severely hurt retail investors, by putting in place a market structure further benefitting dark Systematic Internalisers (SIs). Ignoring the previous plea from BETTER FINANCE and going against
BETTER FINANCE is excited to announce the launch of its much-needed “Gateway to Responsible Investing”, responding to the lack of independent, transparent and clear information on how to invest in a climate-aligned and sustainable way! Besides providing educational information on matters such as ESG, impact investing and greenwashing, the gateway
In response to warnings about an “advice gap” if inducements – or rather sales commissions – were to be banned, BETTER FINANCE stresses that there can be no “advice gap” if there’s no “advice”: biased advice is not really advice. The discussion in Brussels between advocates and opponents of bias-free
On 28 November 2022, BETTER FINANCE together with BEUC and Finance Watch, published a public letter addressed to Vice-President Dombrovskis, and Commissioners McGuinness and Reynders, to encourage them to continue with an ambitious approach with regards to the Retail Investment Strategy and the stated goal of creating bias-free advice. Download
Date: 10th October 2022 Author: BETTER FINANCE Type: Press Releases Eurozone inflation mushroomed from 3.4% to 10% in one year, further deepening Europe’s cost-of-living crisis, yet the best the European Central Bank (ECB) could muster is a late and timid hike of interest rate from 0 to 0.75%. Financial repression
Date: 25th October 2022 Author: BETTER FINANCE Type: Press Releases BETTER FINANCE considers the recent proposal to ban “inducements” (commissions) in “retail” investment services to be a very significant milestone in investor protection and firmly urges EU Member States to also support it. EU authorities are currently working on the
Better Finance has just launched two videos: “Engage to counter Greenwashing!”, and “The Real Return: 10 years of reporting on the state of long-term & pension savings in Europe”. As you know, BETTER FINANCE is committed to fight Greenwashing. In this video, we aim to inform about greenwashing in finance,