The European Commission has published a roadmap concerning its forthcoming Green Paper on retail financial services and insurance. The roadmap notes that the Green Paper, when published, will seek stakeholders’ views on how to bring about better outcomes for consumers and firms in terms of better access, more transparent markets, increased competition as well as greater consumer choice and improved consumer protection (on a domestic and cross-border level) in an increasingly digital environment. In particular, the paper will seek to identify the barriers in the market and investigate the means, including the state of the art technological and innovative solutions, to further improve the functioning of the EU Single Market for providing, purchasing and using retail financial services and insurance.
See Commission roadmap on Green Paper on retail financial services and insurance, 2 September 2015.