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Date: 5th December 2017 Characterised by low interest rates for credit and low yields for debt instruments, the past year as well as 2016 were not very fruitful for institutional investors (especially insurers and credit institutions), reason for which professionals who offer financial products have been searching for financial assets

Date: 5th December 2017 he Greens/EFA Parliamentary Group took a firm position on taxation rules for any future FTA or Brexit deal with the United Kingdom. Following a report released ahead of the December negotiations, the political group argues that one of the issues that must be at the forefront

Date: 5th December 2017 The 2017 budget law that approved the creation of a new tax-exempted individual savings account (in Italian, piani individuali di risparmio) has started to payoff for the national economy. The individual savings account (hereafter PIR) provided by Italian asset managers for investments with a maturity period

Date: 27th November 2017 On 22 November 2017, EIOPA hosted its 7th Annual Conference in Frankfurt. The opening address by EIOPA’s Chair, Gabriel Bernadino, focused on the current challenges the insurance and occupational pensions industry faces. It stressed the four main strategic priorities of EIOPA, addressing technical and regulatory gaps

Date: 17th November 2017 In the Single Market, retail investments are lagging behind as EU savers lack understanding of financial products and confidence in investment intermediaries as well as being put off by an overall lack of attractive results from the industry. With this in mind, the European Parliament (EP)

Date: 14th November 2017 On November 14th, Advocate General Bobek responded negatively (in the case of Schrems v. Facebook[1]) to the referring court’s question on whether Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 44/2001 should be interpreted as allowing a consumer to also introduce the claims of other consumers (collective redress). The

Date: 13th November 2017 n November 2015, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) started an investigation into the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) loan of €400mln to Volkswagen in the context of the Dieselgate scandal. While the company is still calling back vehicles (at a slower rate now – see article here)

Date: 13th November 2017 There is nothing like the aftermath of a double financial crisis to motivate stakeholders to rethink models, concepts and strategies in investments, especially when there are signs that the next crisis could very well be triggered by the finance industry itself. Dark clouds are building up