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Independent EU Financial Policy Insights

REPORT | BETTER FINANCE has published the second edition of the Transition Investing report. The 2024 edition offers an in-depth exploration of how individual investors can play a critical role in driving Europe’s transition to a sustainable economy. Through this comprehensive analysis, BETTER FINANCE addresses the unique opportunities and significant challenges

Better Finance: European Commission releases watered down Capital Markets Union (CMU) Action Plan

24 September 2020 – The European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) published a third action plan to build a Capital Markets Union (CMU) – this time for “people and businesses” – which sets 16 policy and regulatory objectives in order to

EUROPEAN COMMISSION PROVIDES GUIDANCE ON THE PROTECTION OF CROSS-BORDER EU INVESTMENTS IN LIGHT OF THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPITAL MARKETS UNION

Date: 1st August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE With its Communication of July 19, the European Commission reaffirmed the illegality of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties(intra-EU BITs) and stated that ”EU investors cannot invoke intra-EU BITs, which are incompatible with Union law and no longer necessary in the single market’’. Intra-EU BITs

Animated Discussion on Retail Conduct Supervision at the Joint ESAs Consumer Protection Day

Date: 23rd June 2017 Today, Alin Iacob, Chairman of the Association of Romanian Financial Services Users, vice chair of the EBA Banking Stakeholder Group and Board Member of BETTER FINANCE, participated in a Panel Discussion on Retail Conduct Supervision at the Joint ESAs Consumer Protection Day 2017. He brought the