15 May, 2021

2018: A year in governance

This past year has been packed with governance events from the launch of new codes, executive pay debates, and leadership behaviour debacles to climate change, cybersecurity scandals and the Khashoggi murder.

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Senior officials at the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) may believe Scrooge has stepped off the pages of A Christmas Carol. In his recent oh-so-close-to-festivities report, Sir John Kingman said, “Bah, humbug!” to the UK’s governance watchdog and recommended the regulator for financial reporting, audit and actuaries be shut down. It must be said however, that Sir John was being less like Charles Dickens’ most famous miser, and more like a rational soul calling time on an institution that has long since lost its lustre with many close observers of corporate governance. But the demise of the FRC is just one in many significant e

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