Risk
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NEWS: Investor relations, 17 January, 2023
Top fund fires warning shot at ‘laggard’ boards
Norges Bank chief executive warns boards of investor pressure on climate proposals and challenges ‘corporate greed’.
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INSIGHT: Whistleblowing, 16 January, 2023
Why we need to value whistleblowing
Encouraging staff to speak up and stop harm can reduce legal and reputational risk—both for the organisation and its board members.
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NEWS: ESG risk, 9 January, 2023
D&O insurance looks to ESG liability
Insurers’ growing interest in corporate governance may drive companies to improve management of ESG risk, research finds.
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NEWS: Climate risk, 19 December, 2022
Biodiversity crisis: pressure builds on companies
As COP15 in Montréal strives to protect ecosystems, investors are already showing concern about the risks to business of biodiversity loss.
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NEWS: Climate disclosure, 15 December, 2022
Fall in number of firms doing well on climate disclosures
There are fewer top-scoring organisations than last year and little improvement overall, finds Climate Disclosure Project survey.
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NEWS: Governance, 13 December, 2022
UK boards face internal controls shake-up
The government’s reform proposals include seeking disclosures from many non-financial public interest entities.
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INSIGHT: Climate-related risk, 5 December, 2022
5 questions to help boards walk the green talk
It may sometimes take courage, but asking questions is the most effective thing a board director can do to address climate-related risk.
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INSIGHT: Risk management, 5 December, 2022
Listen up—and get a feel for future risk
In a world rife with conflict, boards can develop valuable strategic opportunities from the geopolitical knowledge of their general managers.
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INSIGHT: Risk management, 1 December, 2022
Risk: beware the leadership clique
The rapid collapse and bankruptcy of huge cryptocurrency exchange FTX carries a salutary lesson about the need for challenge on every board.
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NEWS: Risk analysis, 30 November, 2022
Embrace data analytics to boost risk assessment, advises CIIA
Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors’ report cites a lack of skills, resources and time as organisational barriers to effective analysis.
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NEWS: Governance, 25 November, 2022
News round-up: this week in governance
Shared audit's £1bn cost; failed UK energy firms had no internal audit; governance rules for all; is climate risk reporting an SEC matter?
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COMMENT: Audit reform, 25 November, 2022
Why we need audit reform right now
There is an "urgent need" for reform to the audit landscape as well as internal audit, the Chartered IIA argues.
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COMMENT: Climate change, 16 November, 2022
Sustainability and climate change: the other energy crisis
The world is addicted to cheap energy. We need to admit this and have the courage to put oil, gas, and coal into stewardship.
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INSIGHT: ESG-related risk, 4 November, 2022
ESG and your supply chain
Businesses looking overseas for innovative solutions to supply chain disruption need to be aware of the potential for ESG-related litigation.
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INSIGHT: Governance and innovation, 27 October, 2022
Governance must not stand in the way of innovation
As regulation increases, innovation suffers—but a diverse, savvy board can promote a corporate culture open to change.
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NEWS: Succession planning, 20 October, 2022
Succession planning can calm the market
When a good CEO announces their departure, revealing a succession plan eases the pain in more ways than one, finds research.
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NEWS: Governance, 18 October, 2022
MPs demand jail time for directors who fail to prevent fraud
MPs are tabling an amendment to the economic crime and corporate transparency bill to address ‘outdated and ineffective’ liability laws.
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INSIGHT: Greenwashing liability, 13 October, 2022
Greenwashing: are directors ultimately liable?
Directors who pay lip service to climate-related risks may be exposed to breach of duty claims for failing to protect firms’ interests.
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NEWS: Governance, 6 October, 2022
Meta faces US lawsuit over its corporate governance
A Meta stockholder alleges that the company’s business model failed to consider the risks to society and to ‘diversified stockholders’.
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INSIGHT: Board behaviour, 20 September, 2022
Why do narcissistic CEOs promise and fail?
A new study reveals that narcissistic chief executives tend to announce more share repurchases, yet not follow this course of action through.