Regulation
NEWS: US corporate disclosure, 8 May, 2026
US proposes an end to mandatory quarterly reporting
The aim is for companies to choose the ‘reporting frequency that best serves their business needs’, says the US financial regulator.
NEWS: AGMs, 6 May, 2026
ICGN adds its resistance to online-only AGMs
The International Corporate Governance Network’s CEO has written to the EU to prevent ‘weakening shareholder rights’.
COMMENT: Internal audit, 5 May, 2026
The high cost of neglecting internal audit
When internal controls fail, the results are felt not only in heavy fines, but in the real economy and in people’s everyday lives.
NEWS: AI governance, 29 April, 2026
AI use in organisations is ‘uncontrolled’
Tech oversight of usage is lacking among many of the 70% of workers using AI weekly, according to a Lenovo global survey.
NEWS: Internal controls, 24 April, 2026
Internal controls failures see firms fined £1bn+
Organisations ‘are not getting the basics right’, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors.
NEWS: Cyber resilience, 22 April, 2026
Call for boards to sign government Cyber Resilience Pledge
The initiative, launched by cybersecurity minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra CBE, prompts ‘practical, achievable’ and ‘proven’ action.
NEWS: Sustainability reporting rules, 17 April, 2026
Large number of US companies caught by new EU sustainability law
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive still has ‘some of the world’s largest polluting companies’ in scope, say campaigners.
NEWS: Sustainability reporting rules, 14 April, 2026
EC may align sustainability reporting standards with ISSB
While the move is welcomed by many, some fear that it risks undermining ‘double materiality’ principle in European reporting.