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Slovenian BETTER FINANCE Member, VZMD’s President Kristjan Verbi?: “Encouraging people with nearly €24 billion worth of deposits in the Slovenian banks to let their savings strengthen the Slovenian economy through the capital market would benefit them and the entire community!”

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A month before the International investor conference and the meeting of the European Federation of Investors and the Financial Services Users (BETTER FINANCE) and the World Federation of Investors (WFI) in Slovenia, the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) published an interview with the VZMD President, mag. Kristjan Verbi?. In it, mag. Verbi? touches

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Empower the new generations of EU citizens as pension savers to engage corporations into a Sustainable Corporate Governance

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BETTER FINANCE strongly supports the goals of the new initiative on Sustainable Corporate Governance launched by the European Commission in order to reconcile economic growth, social progress, corporate governance and environmental protection, which is a vital and very urgent necessity. But this has to be based on the right assumptions.

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Joint Press Release of Investors and Business Organisations on Sustainable Corporate Governance

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Business and individual investors organisations issue statement on the European Commission’s upcoming initiative on sustainable corporate governance. BETTER FINANCE joined ecoDa, European Family Businesses, EuropeanIssuers, Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), Invest Europe and SMEUnited in issuing this Joint Letter to the European Commission to convey our shared concerns regarding

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Commissioner McGuinness: “Putting people at the heart of the financial system is part of my vision”

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On 22 April at the BETTER FINANCE’s international conference, high-level speakers and over 350 registered participants debated “How to make the EU Capital Markets Union (‘CMU’) work for people?”. For the CMU to succeed, putting equities back at the heart of the EU economy funding and reducing the reliance on

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The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) re-appoints BETTER FINANCE candidate as only Board Member representing Retail Investors

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9 April 2021 – BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce that Jella Benner-Heinacher, the Deputy Chief Director of the Deutsche Schutzvereinigung für Wertpapierbesitz (DSW) and BETTER FINANCE Vice-President, was appointed to the Board of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) as an observer with speaking rights to be the only

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Capital Markets Union at Risk as European “Retail” Investors have less and less access to Equity Market Data

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Access to equity market data is essential for “retail” investors to make informed investment decisions. However, new research by BETTER FINANCE[1] found that the equity market data published by the four largest EU equity markets (in 2019, according to ESMA) on their websites are either totally or partially[2] de facto

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