Better Finance

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BETTER FINANCE is an independent centre of expertise advocating & defending the interests of end-users of financial services vis-à-vis EU institutions.

Geschiedenis

Better Finance not only represents “investors”. Several member organisations are more involved with financial services users other than “investors”. Nevertheless, the objectives and activities of our organisation have not changed.

Key Priorities
Since the creation of our organisation in 2009 our main objective has been to restore the confidence individual investors and other users of financial services. In order to do so, we are focusing on four key priorities:
• Better protection of users of financial services including fair and clearly comparable information, unbiased and competent advice, elimination of tax discrimination against individual savers and investors and consistent rules for financial consumer protection.
• More transparency, liquidity, integrity and efficiency of capital markets in order to primarily serve the investors’ and issuers’ interests, before those of the financial institutions.
• More responsible and competitive lending with banks returning to their core business of collecting deposits and lending to the real economy, with real competition, and without using money from central banks, depositors and taxpayers to fund high margin but risky investment and trading activities.
• Better governance of financial supervision by the European Authorities in order to put an end to the imbalance of the representation of interests between players from the financial industry and the users of financial services and other stakeholders independent from the finance industry.

"BETTER FINANCE The European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users acts as an independent financial expertise center to the direct benefit of European financial services users. Those include individual and small shareholders, fund and other retail investors, savers, pension fund participants, life insurance policyholders, borrowers, and other stakeholders who are independent from the financial industry. As such, BETTER FINANCE provides independent expertise and advocacy for EU citizens in general."