SERVICES

• Private reports on legal and commercial issues arising in negotiations and disputes with financial service providers in the areas of capital investment, loans and payment transactions
• Calculation service for the scrutiny of financial service products
• Consultancy on product development, testing the quality of advice and the design and marketing of consumer-friendly products for financial service providers
• National and international conferences on financial services for providers and consumer organisations; Seminars in policy and theory for banking professionals and for financial, money and consumer advisors; Seminars for consumers and providers
• Research and processing of information on behalf of business, non-profit organisations and public authorities
• Advice for advisors (iff does not offer consumer advice to private individuals)
• Expert advice to the courts
• iff training in money advice (e.g. for Caritas)
• Conduct of consumer and product testing for magazines (e.g. Stern, Capital, WISO)
• Creation of "service networks" to provide a swift and effective response in newsletter form on legal and economic issues arising in the course of day-to-day practice
• Consultancy on international and European law, Analysis of the current legal situations and the practice of consumer protection in different countries
• Drafting Law for future and current EU-Member States, giving an overview about new approaches and practice in different countries all over the world