5 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2015/2106(INI)
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission’s Investment Package, including the Capital Markets Union (CMU); stresses that an efficient and effective financial services framework ensuring financial stability is a prerequisite in order to increase (long-term) investment and to foster growth in a competitive European economy; underlines furthermore that a core principle for building a capital markets union must be to bring greater focus on the end-users of capital markets, i.e. companies and investors, and to recognise that market exist for companies and investors; stresses the linkage between economic and financial stability;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that consumer protection does not necessarily entail large volumes of information; is concerned that the multiplicity of customer information might not ultimately serve real customer needs; points to the necessity of a European initiative for more and better financial education and to the need to enhance the availability of EU data and research by standardising and improving data collection, in order to enable both companies and investors to understand the comparative costs and benefits of different services provided by capital market participants;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the diversity of business models; calls for a differentiation in regulation and supervision regarding the nature, size, riskiness and complexity of entities; notes, however, that regulation should not create too high hurdles when moving from e.g. one size-category to another, or between listed and non-listed companies; is of the opinion, in this respect, that staged approach with gradually increasing requirements is to be preferred;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses the importance of exchanges within the financial system and the importance of a diverse and attractive funding base in European public markets for companies of all sizes; calls for the application of the concept of ‘Think Small First’ in EU financial regulation affecting Emerging Growth Companies and for revising EU financial regulation to reduce administrative costs of listing for companies by 30-50%;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Underlines the need to close the possible loopholes of the regulation and stresses that similar activities should be regulated in a similar manner, despite the form of the activity, (e.g. banking vs. shadow banking);