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Environment, 2 September, 2016

Feel the heat: climate change reporting

Campaign group ClientEarth has made formal complaints against two energy companies, claiming they failed to properly address climate risk in their annual reports. David Cooke, a lawyer with ClientEarth, explains why.

climate washing

Risk, 24 August, 2016

Climate change: the reporting debate

Formal complaints have been made that two companies failed to adequately report their climate-related risk. Climate as a boardroom issue is here to stay.

Sports Direct

BHS & Sports Direct, 17 August, 2016

Cleaning up the governance act

UK business has made "great strides" in corporate governance, but recent events at BHS and Sports Direct have prompted questions about the behaviour of some directors. David Doughty argues that business needs to clean up its act.

Diversity, 16 August, 2016

America’s boardroom diversity crisis

The US has failed to make the right progress on boardroom diversity. But the dominance of ageing, male directors cannot last.

Public policy, 13 July, 2016

Theresa May and the future of corporate governance

Theresa May's proposals for corporate governance promises radical change, moving closer to a European model. But the reforms also raise fundamental questions for governance.

Referendum, 4 July, 2016

Brexit waiting game

The Brexit waiting game is on and it won't be pleasant.

EU Referendum, 26 June, 2016

The future after Brexit

The UK has voted to leave the European Union. The country's leaders must now negotiate an exit. The uncertainties for corporate governance and company strategy are as great as they have ever been.

Audit committees, 21 June, 2016

New audit regs are here

The European Union's new Audit Directive is here and will present a significant change for audit committees and their responsibilities over auditor selection.

OECD

Disclosure, 10 June, 2016

Tax transparency is here to stay

Companies are volunteering more about their tax affairs. But it comes in the context of governments and regulators preparing to set higher demands on disclosures.

Retail, 6 June, 2016

The tragedy of BHS governance

BHS's demise reveals big questions for the purpose of governance.

European flag

Comply or explain in the EU, 6 January, 2016

Fostering the principle

High-quality explanations for deviation from corporate governance codes are needed if the "comply or explain" principle is to take root across the EU.

Appointments, 10 September, 2015

Two hats

Will Brian Moynihan survive as both chairman and chief executive of Bank of America after a vote later this month?

executive education

Executive education, 23 August, 2015

‘Guinea pigs’ or highly trained professionals?

Being a company director requires much more than simply knowing the law, says David Doughty.

Digital Image

Technology, 23 August, 2015

The great IT meltdown

There is little indication that banks are giving IT the kind of attention it undoubtedly needs.

risk management

23 August, 2015

Rethinking risk leadership

John Hurrell argues that a new approach to risk leadership is required in our more challenging business environment.

Diversity, 1 August, 2015

Anti-social behaviour

Socio-economic diversity may present a more complex problem than gender or ethnic diversity, but it makes commercial sense to sort it out.

European flag

26 June, 2015

Capital markets union and governance

Improving the landscape for small and medium-sized business is not just about moving capital, it is a vast governance project too.

RBS

Banking, 15 June, 2015

Banks, governance and selling RBS

The sale of RBS is as much a choice about governance as it is about economic value for the nation.

City of London

UK governance code, 20 March, 2015

Britain’s broken corporate governance regime

Tesco's accounting scandal helps demonstrate that continuous “improvements” underlying the UK Code of Corporate Governance have, over the past 23 years, amounted to little more than a minor facelift.

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