AI and global disruption have brought ‘tumultuous uncertainty’ to organisations, says the CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre.

Investors choose sides after a campaign group challenged BP’s exclusion of shareholder proposals on sustainability.

With AI regulation not yet in place, the stewardship function could ‘amplify its impact by engaging investors’, research suggests.

Even if no one in the organisation planned their arrival, AI agents are already present and working in the systems you trust.

ESG disclosures, until recently focused on reputational risk and stakeholder expectations, are now becoming legal evidence.

Watchdogs issue guidance on AI in the audit process but warn that auditors remains accountable for the quality of their work

Not-for-profit Follow This says it will consider legal action if BP excludes shareholder resolution focused on 'decline' in demand for oil and gas.

Some defended the ‘scrutiny’ that face-to-face AGMs present, seeing online-only meetings as a bid to beat the ‘awkward squad’.

More than 70% of boards fail to give enough attention to artificial intelligence oversight, survey reveals.

What happens when an organisation’s general counsel resigns? Effective succession planning is key to good governance.

AGM proposals related to sustainability garner hardly any support among US shareholders, new research shows.

A UK bill, currently under debate, will not create liability for boards that fail to make cyber resilience a core responsibility.

Although it is a major piece of legislation, campaigners say it falls short now that its scope has been extensively reduced.

Black swan events—unforeseen but monumentally impactful incidents—demand from boards actionable strategies and organisational resilience.

In jurisdictions affected by the climate emergency, companies pay more to acquire debt capital, research finds.

Governance ‘needs to be completely rewritten’ because time is of the essence during a cyber-attack, according to an expert.

Organisational trust and board members’ reputations increasingly need safeguarding in a digital, algorithm-driven world.

But investment is not keeping pace with strategy, and focus is moving to ‘resilience’ and ‘credibility’, a survey of top companies suggests.

Academics call for ‘informed stewardship’, so boards ‘document the rationale for relying on machine-generated insights’.

In 2021, there were only eight female CEOs in the FTSE 100—a figure that is still the same, survey reveals.