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BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, joins its Slovenian Member, the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders’ Association (VZMD), in welcoming the recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that the wipe-out of shares and bonds (the “bail-in”) held by shareholders and junior bondholders of the leading Slovenian banks in 2013-2014,

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 Verbič. In it, mag. Verbič touches on the main topics of

BETTER FINANCE and its member, the Lithuanian Investors Association (LIA) took note of the Lithuanian Parliament report shedding light on the responsibility of major Scandinavian banks in the 2009-2010 financial crisis in the Baltic States. In Lithuania, where GDP fell by almost 15% as of 2009, the parliamentary investigation reflects LIA’s position on the role

The European Central Bank (ECB) extended its recommendation for European banks to withhold the payment of dividends until, at least, 1 January 2021. This might seem like a logical step in the middle of one of the biggest crisis of the century, in an attempt to keep the force of financial establishments expected to absorb

BlackRock, one of the world’s largest investors in banks and fossil fuel companies, has been hired by the EU to work on potential new environmental rules for banks. Campaigners raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest, given BlackRock’s widespread financial interests in sectors that could be directly impacted by new environmental rules. […] Katrin Ganswindt,

As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread around the world and emergency confinement measures have disrupted markets, bankers on both sides of the Atlantic have called for a relaxation of accounting standards introduced in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, known as “expected credit loss provisioning”. These calls, like much bank lobbying attempting to influence capital regulation,

The European Union’s antitrust authority has sent a formal statement of objections to eight unnamed banks suspected of operating a cartel in trading euro zone government bonds between 2007 and 2012, in the middle of the financial crisis that seriously affected banks and entire countries. According to the European Commission’s statement, some traders at the

In last week’s extensive article entitled Pressures on Slovenia, Which Are Not Discussed Publicly (www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/pritiski-na-slovenijo-o-katerih-se-na-glas-ne-govori-81803.html), the leading newspaper (Delo) disclosed the continuous and ever greater pressures on Slovenia to withdraw from the investigation of these acts, despite reasonable grounds for suspecting that in the fall of 2013 the then heads of the Bank of Slovenia

On the 2nd of February 2017, the European Banking Authority published its report on high earners in EU banks.  According to its report, the total number of high earners increased from 3.865 in 2014 to 5.142 in 2015, representing a 33.04% increase compared to 2014 (a 61.8% increase from 2013).  The Capital Requirement Regulation (CRR)

Analysis conducted by UK consumer group Which? shows that 9 out of 10 UK banks did not fully pass on last year`s interest rate rise from the Bank of England to consumers. The numbers presented by Which? were outlined in a recent article published by The Times, showing annual losses of £600 million to British

This new statement follows on an earlier case where VZMD, the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders Association, opposed pressure on its ‘Share SUPPORT’ programme by a brokerage industry  player, harming the minority, individual shareholders it aims to represent. Today, VZMD pointed to further shortcomings and misleading claims made by the ATVP (The Slovenian Securities Market Agency) against its

On 25 September 2020, BETTER FINANCE released the eighth edition of its research report on the Real Return of Long-Term and Pension Savings. More than a month later, on 5 November, PensionsEurope (PE), the lobbyist for the European Pensions Industry, issued a press release levelling unwarranted and unsubstantiated criticism against the findings in the Bulgarian

MEP Mairead McGuinness from the Irish Party Fine Gael has been appointed commissioner for financial services, stability and capital markets union as Ireland loses the key trade portfolio following the resignation of Phil Hogan, a fellow Fine Gael polititian. At a press briefing on Tuesday this week, the president from the European Commission Ursula von der

DATE Publication and Article Title (with links) 26/01/2018 FT – Slippage causes confusion in Mifid II fund rules row 05/02/2018 Les Echos – La réforme de l’épargne-retraite divise les professionnels 08/02/2018 La Libre – PRIIPs  Un règlement qui trompe linvestisseur 14/02/2018 Law360 – Blocwide Pensions Don’t Prevent Dangers, Groups Warn 04/03/2018 Financial News – Asset

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 the cheating software) at the heart of the Dieselgate

VW’s situation is going from bad to worst. Following the outbreak of the emissions cheating scandal in September 2015, the German carmaker is now declared personae non-grata in Luxembourg pension fund.  The Grand Duchy’s Compensation Fund (set up to hold Luxembourg’s excess pension revenues) has added VW to its exclusion list due to the company’s

“Volkswagen and its former chief executive Martin Winterkorn must face a US lawsuit brought by American investors who allege the company improperly inflated its share price by cheating on emissions tests, a judge in California has ruled. […] The investors allege that VW committed securities fraud both through the cheating and by failing to tell

Better Finance has long denounced the disproportionate influence by financial institutions on the policy making process though the use of strong financial lobbies who seek to limit financial regulation or adjust it to their advantage. Over the last years BETTER FINANCE has repeatedly called for a more balanced representation in the European Commission’s advisory system

The European Central Bank (ECB) has been accused by 200 Italian investors of violating its “equal” creditor status in the Greek debt restructuring. A group of Italian investors is claiming damages worth more than € 12mn from the ECB over its purported unfair role and preferential treatment in Greece’s debt deal which allegedly resulted in considerable

On Tuesday, 19 September from 15:00 to 16:30 in the European Parliament in Brussels, a public hearing on the “New EU common system for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of tax abuse in the area of withholding taxes” will take place. The hearing aims to address the burdensome withholding tax refund procedures for

Individual, non-professional (“retail”) investors are significantly demotivated or hampered from investing cross-border within the EU due to: The widespread de facto double taxation of investment income within the “Single Market” (for example the so-called Belgian-French Tax Treaty to avoid double taxation is in reality organizing the double taxation of Belgian residents holding shares of French-domiciled

At the beginning of February 2018, in support of the Capital Markets Union initiative, the European Commission released a Code of Conduct on Withholding Tax (WHT) aimed at reducing barriers hampering cross-border investments for investors by reducing the double taxation whereby the investor is taxed both at the source of the dividend as well as

Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, was invited to address the European Commission’s (EC) ‘Public Hearing on a simpler Withholding Tax procedure for Europe’. The EC just released a Code of Conduct on withholding tax aimed at improving the refund and/or relief at source of current withholding taxes (WHT) charged by Member States within

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 Cour de Cassation, the Belgian judge pointed out that this law

As it stands Belgian taxpayers holding French shares are doubly taxed on their dividends. This double taxation is limited by a bilateral agreement between Belgium and France (and other countries), but it exists. Now a decision by the French highest administrative court regarding a case involving a Belgian holding Frenchshares could set a precedent throughout the European Union by challenging the current principles of doubletaxation.  This could even have consequences for the budgets of the EU member states, since this free movement of capital could be invoked in similar

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