Financial companies consider The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) is becoming increasingly more effective. However, they believe there is also room for improvement....

Pension participants can find an overview of their pension details via mijnpensioenoverzicht.nl. But it takes more to get consumers to check whether their financial position after...

Today, the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) has offered its analysis of the proposals from the European Commission to the minister of Finance. On balance, the AFM...

The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) has published a Guideline for Shareholders, which replaces its previous Information Brochure for Shareholders.

The five largest funeral insurers can and should do more to focus on the interests of their clients when selling their insurance products. The AFM is of the opinion that funeral insurers...

Today, the AFM presented its report "Incentives for Audit Quality" to the Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants (Nederlandse Beroepsorganisatie van Accountants, or NBA). The...

The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) started an investigation into the payment behaviour of insurers in August 2010, which investigation focused specifically on the...

The number of notifications of a reasonable suspicion of market abuse has dropped since 2007. This is evident from data of the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). In...

Better cost management will allow small and medium-sized pension funds in particular to increase their pension assets significantly in time. Most pension funds currently have insufficient...

The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets [Autoriteit Financiële Markten, or “AFM”] sees no grounds for restricting the use of ”high-frequency trading” (HFT). The AFM sees HFT...