- AFM: Funeral insurers do not act sufficiently in the interests of their clients when selling insurance
02-12-2011The 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...
Read more - AFM: There is a need for clear auditor independence rules
06-10-2011Today, the AFM presented its report "Incentives for Audit Quality" to the Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants (Nederlandse Beroepsorganisatie van Accountants, or NBA). The...
Read more - The AFM points out defects in disability insurance products to insurers
16-06-2011The 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...
Read more - The AFM seeks to reverse the trend of declining numbers of notifications of market abuse
11-05-2011The 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...
Read more - The AFM investigation report entitled 'The costs of pension funds deserve more attention'
12-04-2011Better 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...
Read more - AFM evaluates use of high-frequency trading (HFT) in European financial markets
18-11-2010The 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...
Read more - Five years of regulating market abuse: price-sensitive information published sooner, international level playing field increasingly important
03-11-2010The AFM has put regulation of market abuse firmly on the map during the last five years. While the initial years were mainly devoted to explaining the rules, the standard for prompt...
Read more - Complexity of pensions leads to errors in UPO's and uncertainty for consumers
08-10-2010The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) calls on trade unions and the employers' organisations to simplify existing and new pension schemes, and to avoid transitional...
Read more - AFM inspections highlight need for fundamental improvement of audits
01-09-2010The quality of audits must fundamentally improve, according to the AFM, following its inspections of the quality of audits and of quality control monitoring at the four largest audit...
Read more - Quality of half-yearly financial reports has improved but room for further improvement in some areas
17-05-2010The transparency of the information presented in half-yearly financial reports of listed companies has significantly improved in comparison to 2008, according to the review published by...
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