Tag: EU finance
How the EU’s simplification agenda opens the door for greenwashing in finance
The EU’s ‘Sustainability Omnibus’ loosens sustainability rules for big businesses, but it’s not too late to introduce necessary guardrails to prevent greenwashing explains Tom Redmond from BEUC’s Financial Services team.
Me, myself and I(nsurance)
“I have lost 10 kilos over the last year”, an energetic insurance lobbyist told me last week. He told me that his smart watch had registered all the calories he had managed to shed. “Don’t I deserve a cut in...
Consumers deserve better security in electronic payments
It is a lesson from history that fraud always moves to the least secure form of payment available. The first credit card was launched in 1950 in the US. To authorise a payment, the consumer simply had to present it...