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• Category: Board Expertise
  • Top fund fires warning shot at ‘laggard’ boards
  • Why we need to value whistleblowing
  • HR: How to build employee trust in corporate culture
  • Top companies dismiss concept of workers on boards
  • Boards want powerful CEOs in tough times
  • Risk: beware the leadership clique
  • How listening to workers can boost business
  • NEDs ‘needed more than ever’ in times of uncertainty
  • Why are ‘ethical’ executives still highly paid?
  • Companies lean towards hiring CEOs new to the C-suite
  • How to chair the board more effectively
  • ‘Poor’ proxy advisers ‘stifle’ investor stewardship
  • Every board needs a STEM professional
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Number of ‘ESG-engaged’ directors rises steeply
  • Governance must not stand in the way of innovation
  • Integrity as a means of internal control
  • Succession planning can calm the market
  • Boards must prepare for active political engagement
  • Culture fit: make or break for M&As
  • Let AI pick up the board’s admin only, experts advise
  • Boards advised to ‘act now to save auto sector’
  • Nominations open for this year’s Non-Executive Director Awards
  • Diversity statements are not all ‘cheap talk’, finds study
  • Why do narcissistic CEOs promise and fail?
  • Board veto of shareholder AGM resolution under scrutiny
  • Why D&I should top the board agenda
  • The X factor in crafting new CXO roles successfully
  • The Secret NED: whistleblowing and the board
  • What happens when a director resigns?
  • Psychology: the CEO on the couch
  • 3 things you can do to improve ESG
  • What the world can learn from Nordic boards
  • Business transformation is a priority now, say experts
  • US boards slow diversity with poor retirement policies
  • Has hybridity killed teamwork?
  • ESG communications: What boards need to know
  • How to be an effective chair during volatile times
  • Paying for sustainable performance
  • Half of corporate leaders reject pay as a main driver for ESG
  • Stakeholder pressure increases urgency on ESG
  • Many executives ‘fail to understand the role and value of boards’
  • 5 topics to improve the effectiveness of your board
  • Why emotional intelligence is essential for successful leadership
  • AI decision-making presents new ethical risks
  • The heavy cost of boardroom disasters
  • What Ukraine teaches us about effective leadership in a crisis
  • Board effectiveness in the new world of work
  • Selecting a direction: the six paths to leadership
  • Climate leadership: meeting the challenges of ESG
  • Investor interference: how should your board respond?
  • NED Awards 2022: a diverse range of nominees and outstanding winners
  • Audit committees and ESG: 10 key observations
  • Business concern over cyber attacks rises in wake of Ukraine conflict
  • Rethinking boards: what does the future hold for directors?
  • The Secret NED: if your board has problems, don’t be a hero
  • Boards have intensified their attention on employee well-being, survey reveals
  • Boards ‘face data challenge’ as digital tools transform governance
  • The hot seat: how chairs shape a positive board culture
  • ‘Purpose-driven’ leaders honoured at Modern Governance awards
  • What is ‘independent judgment’—and how should board directors use it?
  • How to onboard directors so they hit the ground running
  • Are you asking the right questions of your data team?
  • Diligent launches its third Modern Governance 100 awards
  • Leaders confident of Covid comeback but doubt their abilities in digital
  • Raise your digital game: strategy, governance and skills for transformation
  • The Secret NED: board compliance matters, even on the little things
  • The post-Covid recovery demands ‘context-conscious’ leadership
  • NED Awards 2021 winners praised for ‘commitment, care and competence’
  • The group dynamics that define well-functioning boards
  • Three ways for the board to enhance its climate competency
  • Firms need ‘two layers’ of AI governance
  • Why ESG strategy is a complex corporate challenge for boards
  • Prime problem: the challenge of founder CEO succession
  • Foreign audit committee members linked to low-quality financial reporting
  • The Secret NED: a non-executive is not just for Christmas
  • Top companies report problems with CEO succession planning
  • The Secret NED: Clinton, company email and a confidentiality dilemma
  • A checklist for boards in the new normal
  • Dame Alison Carnwath: ‘We’d all rather look into somebody’s eyes’
  • Dame Alison Carnwath on NEDs, nomcos and future-fit boards
  • Digital expertise in the boardroom ‘improves company performance’
  • Leadership in wicked times
  • The Secret NED: how can non-execs balance oversight and loyalty?
  • What does it take to be an effective non-executive director?
  • Interview: Tesco chair John Allan on the role of non-executive directors
  • Board directors ‘lack specific sustainability knowledge’
  • Gender diversity on boards pays dividends—but inequality persists
  • Shareholders happier with CEO pay levels in 2020 as revolts halve
  • S&P prefers its CEOs to be insiders
  • Tech skills in the boardroom and the race for survival
  • How we formed a strategy—and then adapted it to a global pandemic
  • Crisis leadership and the role of the board
  • How failed M&A can destroy a director’s credibility
  • How to grow your resilience at a time of uncertainty
  • Balancing the books: the challenges of chairing a library charity
  • Forget perfect: how to make decisions during uncertain times
  • Stream team: how to make your virtual board meetings a success
  • Remote possibilities: can you really learn leadership online?
  • The role of the board in times of distress
  • NED Awards 2020: ‘It’s the unexpected that really tests us’
  • How true leaders communicate in a crisis
  • Board leadership and culture will be a differentiator in this crisis
  • Questions non-execs should ask before joining the board
  • How boards can learn to talk about ‘unspeakable’ issues
  • How boards can help shape the future of capitalism
  • Five qualities for business leaders in an age of uncertainty
  • Survey launches to reveal boardroom risk thinking
  • Feeling drained? Why leaders must learn to manage their energy
  • Corporate activism: how CEOs should approach political issues
  • NED Awards 2020: ‘Think strategically about how your company adapts’
  • Sustainability and the five archetypes of boardroom behaviour
  • Boards under media influence
  • New threats to ‘diversity of thought’ despite better board composition
  • Rapid technological change ‘is disrupting leadership’
  • Cybersecurity: how to close the knowledge gap
  • The Secret NED: mind your boardroom language
  • Banking on better cybersecurity
  • Winners revealed of Non-Executive Awards
  • What boards need to know about whistleblowing
  • Sir Roger Carr: What makes a good non-executive?
  • Performance and accountability: the changing role of the chair
  • Why poor cybersecurity is a ticking time bomb
  • A disruptive influence: how new technology is challenging boards
  • The Secret NED: the long (long) list for choosing a new chair
  • Culture and intangibles top list of engagement concerns
  • Learning from and resolving boardroom conflict
  • Domino’s debacle poses questions for SIDs
  • A healthy balance for parent banks
  • Tax transparency: compliance burden or reputation booster?
  • Being prepared: The rise in internal investigations
  • Subsidiaries under scrutiny
  • Harnessing conflict for boardroom success
  • Tomorrow’s leadership, today: nurturing future leaders
  • NED Awards: what it takes to be great
  • Resilient leadership: how leaders can survive trauma
  • The chemistry of leadership: can hormone replacement therapy help?
  • Ten measures boards should take to protect against cybersecurity attacks   
  • Succession planning: Alibaba works its magic
  • Corporate photos reveal a minority report of directors
  • Public image a major concern for boardroom leadership
  • Preparation key for growing trend of corporate venture capital deals
  • Why it is time to take stock of governance in banking
  • A practical guide to executive onboarding
  • How automation and digitisation are driving an outsourcing rethink
  • Inside the minds of ‘athletic’ leaders
  • Board gender diversity requires a diversity of attitude
  • The Secret NED: time for the governance code to find its direction
  • The Five Qs – a recipe for effective leadership
  • Five attributes of successful board directors
  • Five steps to ensuring an effective board merger
  • The Secret NED: why boards must think seriously about sustainability
  • Non-execs need the right skills for effective integrated reporting
  • Twelve of the biggest mistakes boards make about culture 
  • The guardianship circle: praxis of governance and audit committees
  • Information asymmetry is good for effective boards
  • Give investors a greater say on executive pay
  • Non-executives and setting the right tone at the top
  • Twelve questions to determine board effectiveness
  • The Secret NED: how boards can keep RoboNed at bay
  • Board chair practices across the world: an INSEAD study
  • The three Es of effective board leadership: an INSEAD study
  • View from the chair: Kieran Moynihan on PE versus PLC board performance
  • FTSE100 CEO pay falls but much further to go, say governance experts
  • Research reveals route to resolving boardroom tension and conflict
  • The Secret NED: the trials of the remuneration chair
  • Eleven leadership guidelines for the digital age
  • Three crucial advantages of multicultural management teams
  • The right C-suite incentive structure makes firms smarter
  • Personal impact: making your presence felt in the boardroom
  • A happy engagement: The path to good investor relations
  • Do company boards need an expert in cybersecurity and technology?
  • Audit committees and the environment
  • What’s behind the rise in shareholder class actions?
  • Why women struggle with shorter boardroom tenure
  • The overstretched non-exec and balancing a portfolio
  • What leaders can learn from the rise of the outsider
  • Bye bye NED
  • The Secret NED: Welcome, newbie NEDs
  • Overconfident CEOs are less socially responsible
  • The need for engaged boards is more crucial than ever before
  • Courage ranked top boardroom trait
  • How conflict makes for effective boards
  • Limits to value in board diversity
  • 10 questions for building a board
  • Specialist deficit on boards
  • It’s all about attitude
  • Perceptions matter when it comes to investor relations
  • Critical distance
  • Societal costs of CEO hubris
  • Governing self-interest
  • Story telling
  • Pay pressure
  • Should it be lonely to be a CEO?
  • How to appoint the right auditor for your business
• Category: Board Moves
  • Whitbread appoints NED
  • British Honey Company appoints NED
  • Barclays announces board changes
  • Landsec names new chair
  • Young’s announces NED appointment
  • Permanent TSB appoints chair designate
  • Caroline Silver to be chair designate at Barratt Developments
  • Dame Karen Jones becomes Whitbread NED
  • TT Electronics makes NED appointments
  • New senior NED for easyJet
  • Samy Reeb joins Playtech as NED
  • Reach plc announces non-executive director appointment
  • Rio Tinto appoints NED
  • Stuart Lewis to join NatWest
  • Reckitt appoints NED
  • Santander nominates independent director
  • Fever-Tree raises toast to next chair
  • Geeta Nanda moves to Redrow as NED
  • Ryanair appoints NED
  • John Brewis to chair Games Workshop
  • Centrica appoints NED
  • New NED for Travis Perkins
  • Unbound Group appoints non-executive director
  • NextEnergy Solar Fund appoints next chair
  • PZ Cussons gains NED and future chair
  • Bob Iger returns as Disney CEO
  • Naked Wines announces NED
  • ICG appoints chair
  • Sage appoints non-executive director
  • Christine Ramon joins Vodafone
  • Schroder fund appoints NED
  • PUMA promotes Arne Freundt to CEO
  • Virgin Experience Days announces new chair
  • AO appoints a new NED
  • Barratt appoints non-executive director
  • Danske Bank UK announces new chair
  • Shell appoints NED
  • Ocado appoints non-executive director
  • Three new NEDs for Spire
  • On the Beach appoints executive director
  • Comptoir appoints CEO
  • Li Fanrong becomes chair of Pirelli
  • De Beers Group announces co-chair and new chief executive
  • New NEDs for Experian
  • NatWest announces NED appointment
  • Aston Martin Lagonda appoints NED
  • Satish Pai to join BP board as a non-executive director
  • Nationwide appoints Tracey Graham as independent non-executive director
  • Baroness Rock to chair Costain’s board
  • Tesco appoints non-executive director
  • DFS appoints non-executive chair
  • Shell confirms CEO transition
  • Serco announces CEO designate
  • Véronique Laury joins BAT board
  • Yahoo appoints independent director
  • Mary Dillon becomes Foot Locker CEO
  • McDonald’s elects new board members
  • Wizz Air creates deputy chair role
  • BNY Mellon’s Pershing appoints CEO of EMEA
  • New NED for Card Factory
  • Anand Aithal joins Saga as NED
  • Co-op appoints Shirine Khoury-Haq as CEO
  • AstraZeneca announces chair succession
  • Gwendoline Cazenave to be next Eurostar CEO
  • EasyJet reshuffles its board
  • Harland & Wolff gains NED
  • New CEO joins Joules
  • Scottish Building Society appoints chair
  • Philips announces CEO succession
  • Shaw healthcare appoints chair
  • Xerox appoints CEO
  • Alan Stewart to be NED at Burberry
  • ECB selects next chair
  • Amanda Blanc joins BP board
  • Matt Davies becomes Greggs’ chair designate
  • JD Sports appoints new CEO
  • FCA chair appointed
  • Volkswagen Group appoints next chair
  • Tourism Northern Ireland names new chair
  • Cressida Hogg to become chair of BAE Systems
  • Eoin Tonge to join ABF as finance director
  • Hyatt Hotels names CIO
  • Credit Suisse nominates new group chief executive
  • Alison Brittain is appointed Premier League chair
  • Rolls-Royce announces its next CEO
  • Lee Taylor to become CEO at Allianz UK
  • Cabinet Office makes key appointments
  • BNY Mellon names next chief financial officer
  • Jane Millichip to be CEO of BAFTA
  • René de Groot joins British Airways as COO
  • Mirriad Advertising appoints two NEDs
  • Deutsche Bank appoints chief sustainability officer
  • Graihagh Crawshaw-Sadler appointed CEO of Bookmark
  • Technology company SDI appoints its next CFO
  • Naureen Hassan to become president of UBS Americas
  • Nyetimber appoints chief executive
  • Hospice UK names Toby Porter as CEO
  • Chris Browne appointed as NED at Kier Group
  • Katie Murray to become chair of Phoenix board audit committee
  • McDonald’s nominates Ian Borden as chief financial officer
  • Jupiter Fund Management appoints next CEO
  • EasyJet’s chief operating officer resigns
  • Dominic Paul to return to Whitbread as chief executive
  • Sam Smith steps down from finnCap CEO position
  • The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity appoints new chair
  • TUI Group confirms new CEO and CFO
  • AkzoNobel announces new chief executive
  • Shaun McCabe to become CFO at Boohoo
  • Berkeley Group names Michael Dobson as next chair
  • Asos appoints new chief executive and chair
  • Santander nominates Héctor Grisi as CEO
  • Foxtons Group appoints Guy Gittins as chief executive
  • B&M names Alex Russo as its next chief executive
  • Simon Moore appointed as the next chair at LV=
  • Karen Witts joins Dunelm board as chief financial officer
  • JD Sports appoints interim CEO and non-executive chair
  • John Bason to join SSE board as non-executive director
  • New leadership team takes the helm at M&S
  • ANZ Banking Group appoints Jeff Smith as non-executive director
  • Lynne Weedall joins Greggs as non-executive director
  • National Grid appoints Iain Mackay as non-executive director
  • Stephen Carter to join Vodafone board as non-executive director
  • Susan McErlain joins Brickability as an independent non-executive director
  • Dalton Philips appointed as chief executive of Greencore
  • Ian Smyth named as next chief executive of Electricity North West  
  • IHG appoints Byron Grote as non-executive director
  • Delphine Cunci and Simon Segars to join Vodafone board
  • Aston Martin Lagonda appoints Amedeo Felisa as chief executive
  • United Utilities names Louise Beardmore as CEO designate
  • Carnival appoints Josh Weinstein as president and chief executive
  • Oxford Biomedica appoints Namrata Patel as non-executive director
  • Ann-marie Murphy joins The Gym Group board
  • Nokia appoints three new non-executive directors to the board
  • Mark Brooker joins Heathrow Airport board as non-executive director
  • Howard Schultz rejoins Starbucks board as interim CEO
  • Chet Patel and Salma Shah join Mitie board as non-executive directors
  • Shirine Khoury-Haq named as interim CEO at Co-operative Group
  • FirstGroup appoints Myrtle Dawes as non-executive director
  • Tracy Corrigan joins Domino’s Pizza as non-executive director
  • Raj Subramaniam named as chief executive of FedEx
  • Chris Smith and David Berry join Osler Diagnostics board
  • Credit Suisse proposes three new non-executive directors
  • Charles Allen appointed as non-executive chair of THG
  • Purplebricks names Helena Marston as its new chief executive
  • Doug Lafferty to join Aston Martin Lagonda as chief financial officer
  • Alan Keir joins Nationwide board as non-executive director
  • Dunelm appoints Kelly Devine as non-executive director
  • Sinead Gorman named as chief financial officer at Shell
  • Robert Maersk Uggla appointed as chair of A.P. Moller–Maersk
  • Smith+Nephew appoints Deepak Nath as chief executive
  • Jitesh Gadhia to join Rolls-Royce board as non-executive director
  • Financial Reporting Council appoints four new non-executive directors
  • Krishnan Anand joins British American Tobacco as non-executive director
  • Luca Maestri and Chris Leong nominated to join Nestlé board
  • Peloton appoints Angel Mendez and Jonathan Mildenhall to the board
  • LV= appoints Seamus Creedon as interim chair
  • Lyssa McGowan takes the lead at Pets at Home
  • Taylor Wimpey names Jennie Daly as chief executive
  • Jay Malave joins Lockheed Martin as chief financial officer
  • Jochen Eickholt appointed as chief executive of Siemens Gamesa
  • The Home Depot names Ted Decker as chief executive
  • SMS appoints Tim Mortlock as chief executive officer
  • Kevin Parry takes up chair role at Nationwide
  • Simon Dingemans joins WPP as non-executive director
  • Shawn Purvis named as president and CEO of QinetiQ US
  • Kraft Heinz appoints Andre Maciel as global chief financial officer
  • Veolia board names Estelle Brachlianoff as next chief executive
  • Asos appoints Patrick Kennedy as senior independent director
  • Anne E. Robinson joins National Grid board as non-executive director
  • InterContinental Hotels Group names Deanna Oppenheimer as next chair
  • Credit Suisse Group appoints Axel Lehmann as new chair
  • David Blackwood and Dominic Lavelle join the Go-Ahead board
  • Facebook owner Meta names Tony Xu as board director
  • Lee Williams appointed as chief financial officer at Seraphine Group
  • Dirk Van den Berghe joins The Very Group as chair
  • Foxtons Group appoints Chris Hough as chief financial officer
  • Henry de Zoete joins Hornby board as non-executive director
  • Volvo Cars appoints Jim Rowan as CEO and president
  • Roisin Currie named as next chief executive of Greggs
  • Amber Rudd joins Centrica board as non-executive director
  • Jan du Plessis lined up as next chair of the Financial Reporting Council
  • Susan Arnold becomes first female chair of Walt Disney
  • Pearson appoints Omid Kordestani as chair designate
  • Rio Tinto names Dominic Barton as next chair of the board
  • Apurvi Sheth and Kelly Kuhn join SSP Group as independent NEDs
  • Oxford Biomedica appoints Catherine Moukheibir as non-executive director
  • Robert Isom named as next chief executive of American Airlines
  • Lyft appoints Elaine Paul as chief financial officer
  • Angela Lockwood joins Mears Group as non-executive director
  • Lisa Fretwell joins Santander UK as independent non-executive director
  • TSB boss Debbie Crosbie named as next chief executive of Nationwide
  • Fashion group Inditex gives its leadership team a makeover
  • Twitter names new chief executive and chair
  • Patrick Coveney appointed as group CEO of food travel firm SSP
  • KPMG UK extends Bina Mehta’s term as chair
  • Burberry appoints Danuta Gray as non-executive director
  • Lord Stuart Rose and Dame Alison Carnwath join Asda board
  • Zheng Yin to join Informa board as non-executive director
  • Alexander Wynaendts chosen as next chair of Deutsche Bank
  • UBS nominates Colm Kelleher and Lukas Gähwiler as chair and vice-chair
  • Nick Bate named as chair of Redcentric board
  • Alan Ralph joins DCC board as non-executive director
  • Jason Liberty to take the helm at Royal Caribbean Group
  • Holly Elliott joins City Pub Group as chief financial officer
  • Wizz Air appoints Anna Gatti as non-executive director
  • Duncan Wanblad named as next CEO of Anglo American
  • Graham Allan appointed as senior independent NED at IHG
  • Gillian Sheldon and Tom Delay join Severn Trent board
  • Barclays appoints C.S. Venkatakrishnan as group chief executive
  • Dr Harry C. Dietz to join GSK board as independent non-executive director
  • Direct Line Group appoints Tracy Corrigan as non-executive director
  • Arlene Isaacs-Lowe and Sundar Raman to join Compass Group board
  • Monique Melis named as senior independent director at Metro Bank
  • ReNeuron appoints Catherine Isted as chief financial officer
  • Ian Tyler to join Anglo American as non-executive director
  • Versace boss Jonathan Akeroyd appointed as Burberry CEO
  • Ian Dyson named as new chair of the board at Asos
  • Informa appoints Joanne Wilson and Louise Smalley as non-executives
  • Vijay Talwar joins Dunelm board as non-executive director
  • 3i Group appoints David Hutchison as chair
  • Deborah Kerr to join Vodafone board as non-executive director
  • Linda Marston-Weston joins Playtech as non-executive director
  • Sebastian Coe scoops board role at lottery firm Sazka
  • Glencore appoints David Wormsley as independent non-executive director
  • Paul Manduca takes the wheel as chair of Eurowag
  • Kevin Davidson named as CEO of Norman Broadbent
  • Biffa appoints Linda Morant as non-executive director
  • Mike Coupe joins fashion brand New Look as chair
  • John Flint named as CEO of the UK Infrastructure Bank
  • Afonso Reis e Sousa becomes chief financial officer at Petrofac
  • Elmar Schnee takes on chair role at pharma firm Clinigen
  • Stephen Hester appointed as next chair of easyJet
  • New deputy CEO, COO and non-executive director at AJ Bell
  • Joanne Curd joins Dillistone Group as chief financial officer
  • James Saralis named as chief executive of NAHL Group
  • Nicky Morgan joins Santander UK as independent non-executive director
  • Adam Crozier appointed as chair of BT Group
  • Naked Wines appoints Darryl Rawlings as its new chair
  • Philip Hourquebie takes over chair role at Investec Group
  • ANZ appoints Christine O’Reilly as non-executive director
  • Mark Anderson and Dan Nicholson to join board of Great Portland Estates
  • Argo Blockchain board welcomes three new independent non-execs
  • Schroders appoints Dame Elizabeth Corley as its next chair
  • FirstGroup chair David Martin to take on temporary executive role
  • Kathryn Mikells joins ExxonMobil as chief financial officer
  • Paul Lewis takes over as firmwide managing partner at Linklaters
  • Watkin Jones appoints new chair and chief financial officer
  • Barbara Staehelin appointed as senior independent director at ReNeuron
  • Aston Martin accelerates board diversity with new NEDs
  • Tony Wood and Martha Wyrsch join National Grid as non-execs
  • David Wells appointed as next chair of the board at Wise
  • Kalidas Madhavpeddi named as new Glencore chair
  • Andy Jassy becomes CEO of Amazon as Jeff Bezos moves to chair role
  • Gymshark founder Ben Francis takes back CEO role
  • Matthew Ashley joins Micro Focus as chief financial officer
  • Kantar names Chris Jansen as its new chief executive officer
  • Elish Angiolini and Debbie Crosbie to join SSE as non-executive directors
  • Southwest Airlines appoints Bob Jordan as chief executive officer
  • Pamela B. Jackson joins the board at TTM Technologies
  • RBG appoints Patsy Baker and David Wilkinson as independent NEDs
  • Lord Livingston joins National Grid as non-executive director
  • GameStop scores new CEO and CFO for ‘refreshed board’
  • Heathrow appoints climate expert Joan MacNaughton to its board
  • Anita Frew named as first female chair at Rolls-Royce
  • Ben Wyatt to join Rio Tinto as non-executive director
  • AstraZeneca appoints Aradhana Sarin as chief financial officer
  • Eytan Uliel moves into CEO role at Challenger Energy
  • Smiths Group appoints Paul Keel as chief executive officer
  • Dan Janki joins Delta Airlines as chief financial officer
  • EssilorLuxottica names new CEO, chair and board in governance overhaul
  • L Brands appoints new CFOs at Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works
  • ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming hands over to co-founder Liang Rubo
  • Lutz Schüler and Patricia Cobian to take CEO and CFO roles at merged mobile firm
  • George Farmer named as new chief executive of Parler
  • Steve Priest appointed as eBay’s new chief financial officer
  • Mark Breuer named as next chair of the board at DCC
  • Danone appoints Antoine de Saint-Affrique as CEO
  • Charles Wilson joins Menzies Distribution as non-executive director
  • Neil Manser confirmed as chief financial officer at Direct Line Group
  • Dr Anne Beal joins GlaxoSmithKline board as a non-executive director
  • Linklaters elects Aedamar Comiskey as senior partner
  • Mary O’Connor to leave KPMG after being overlooked in CEO vote
  • Michel Doukeris appointed as chief executive of AB InBev
  • Shouzi Chew named as new chief executive of TikTok
  • Peter Sjölander joins Superdry as chair of the board
  • Matt Puckett named as new chief financial officer at VF Corporation
  • Pearson appoints Annette Thomas as independent non-executive director
  • Sacha Sadan joins the Financial Conduct Authority as ESG director
  • Duncan Tatton-Brown and Anne Wojcicki to join Cazoo board
  • Lyca Group appoints Navanit Narayan as chief executive
  • Satoshi Tsunakawa takes over as Toshiba president and CEO
  • Les Thomas joins board of Jersey Oil & Gas as independent NED
  • Jon Holt elected as new chief executive of KPMG UK
  • Sarah Sands scoops board role at Berkeley Group
  • Four new non-executive directors join Indivior board
  • General Motors appoints Meg Whitman and Mark Tatum to the board
  • Jim Mintern to join board of CRH as group finance director
  • Marc Rowan takes over as CEO of Apollo Global Management
  • Cineworld appoints Ashley Steel as independent non-executive director
  • Helena Morrissey and Evelyn Bourke to join the board of AJ Bell
  • Simon Kirkpatrick appointed as group CFO at Mitie
  • Habib Annous to join Hammerson board as non-executive director
  • Gilles Schnepp takes over from Emmanuel Faber as chair of Danone
  • Merit Janow nominated for election to Aptiv’s board of directors
  • Lodewijk Hijmans van den Bergh set to join ING supervisory board
  • Marston’s CEO Ralph Findlay calls time on current role
  • HSBC appoints Rachel Duan as independent non-executive director
  • Bob Sternfels elected global managing partner at McKinsey
  • Sir Andrew Mackenzie named as new chair of Shell
  • Reddit appoints Drew Vollero as its first chief financial officer
  • Vin Murria joins M&C Saatchi as deputy chair of the board
  • Rio Tinto chair Simon Thompson to step down in 2022
  • Michael Angelakis and Jeffrey Ubben join ExxonMobil board
  • Sensyne Health appoints new CFO and two non-executive directors
  • BT chair Jan du Plessis to step down later this year
  • Fuel retailer EG Group appoints Dame Alison Carnwath to the board
  • Daniela Barone Soares and Richard Anderson join IHG board
  • Stella David joins Domino’s Pizza as independent non-executive director
  • Stripe appoints Mark Carney to its board of directors
  • Adriane M. Brown joins the board of American Airlines
  • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala named director-general of the WTO
  • ABN AMRO nominates Lars Kramer as chief financial officer
  • Anglo American appoints Elisabeth Brinton as non-exec
  • Dame Carolyn Fairbairn to join HSBC as independent NED
  • Olaf Swantee set to join Vodafone as non-executive director
  • KPMG appoints Bina Mehta as temporary chair
  • Valérie Baudson appointed as chief executive of Amundi
  • John Barker named as chair of ITI Capital
  • Cynthia Carroll joins Glencore as independent NED
  • Prudential appoints Chua Sock Koong and Ming Lu as NEDs
  • Tony Quinlan joins Costain as non-executive director
  • Rosalind Brewer named CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance
  • Tate & Lyle appoints Vivid Sehgal as chief financial officer
  • UBS announces nomination of two new board members
  • WH Smith appoints Kal Atwal as non-executive director
  • Simon Wolfson takes up non-exec role at Deliveroo
  • Rio Ferdinand joins The Gym as independent non-exec
  • Hammerson’s CFO James Lenton announces his departure
  • Direct Line Group CFO Tim Harris takes leave of absence
  • Board moves: David Smith named as non-executive chair of Kavango Resources
  • Board moves: M&G chair to take temporary leave of absence
  • Board moves: Simply Biz Group appoints Imogen Joss as non-exec
  • Board moves: BHP announces board changes as Susan Kilsby steps down
  • Board moves: Adrian Joseph appointed to board of Direct Line Group
  • Board moves: Sir Ian Cheshire to step down as chair of Barclays Bank UK
  • Board moves: Tamara Ingram to chair new M&S ESG committee
  • Board moves: new chair for National Grid nominations committee
  • Board moves: LandSec announces changes to executive leadership team
  • Board moves: David Howell to leave chair role at Countryside Properties
  • Board moves: Burberry appoints Antoine Bernard de Saint-Affrique as NED
  • Bernard Meunier and David Rennie to join Nestlé board
  • Board moves: Sir Peter Bonfield joins Imagination Technologies as NED
  • Board moves: Michael Macdonnell to join Sensyne Health as chief operating officer
  • Board moves: Jane Fraser to take over as Citigroup CEO
  • Rio Tinto CEO resigns following Aboriginal caves scandal
  • Board moves: Domino’s delivers on gender diversity after industry pressure
  • Board moves: Andy Bird appointed CEO at education publisher Pearson
  • Rio Tinto revamps board after criticism over lack of diversity
  • Board moves: Tristel appoints Bruno Holthof as chair
  • Board moves: Lookers signs tech non-exec Heather Jackson
  • Board moves: Rightmove completes on new chair
  • Board moves: Andrew Coppel named as chair of Arcadia
  • Board moves: Katrina Cliffe appointed SID at HomeServe
  • Board moves: Millennium & Copthorne Hotels and Nyrstar
  • Board moves: Heathrow Airport Holdings, Network International and WPP
  • Board moves: London Stock Exchange Group, AB InBev and British Land
  • Board moves at Marks & Spencer; Huntsworth; and RBS
  • Board moves: Unilever and Rathbone Brothers
  • Board Moves: Derwent London; Serco; and Idox
  • Board moves: IG; Sensyne Health; and Pendragon
  • Board moves: BT; ASOS; and appScatter
  • Elon Musk drops Tesla chairman role; and IG CEO leaves board
  • Hellawell leaves Sports Direct as Ashley lambasts City and media
  • Stobart appoints first female executive in board overhaul
  • Uber boosts IPO plan after long-awaited CFO appointment
  • Board moves at YouGov, Direct Line, and Silence Therapeutics
  • ITV finance head to chair ITN
  • Board moves at Fiat Chrysler/Ferrari; GAME Digital; and Smiths
  • Board moves at Speedy Hire; Barclays; and BTG
  • Brexit could increase European voices on UK boards, says report
  • Stobart chairman wins pyrrhic AGM vote as board overhaul looms
  • Board moves at Sainsbury’s; TP ICAP; and Ocado
  • Crozier to take ASOS chairmanship
  • Ex-Olympics minister takes Camelot chair in board evolution
  • Board moves at TP ICAP; Standard Life Aberdeen; Ashtead Group; & Northgate
  • Board moves for comparethemarket.com; Drax; and Abcam
  • Board moves at Domino’s Pizza Group and Stanley Gibbons
  • Board moves at RBS; BP; and Safestyle
  • Air France-KLM appoints interim governance structure
  • Board moves at Halfords; St. James’s Place; and C&C Group
  • Board moves at Centrica, Whitbread, GSK and National Grid
  • Board moves at Sainsbury’s/Asda; Tesla; and Cabot Energy
  • Board moves at Safestyle; Hurricane Energy; and Citi
  • Board moves at Tullow Oil; Deutsche Bahn and Mothercare
  • Board moves at Zurich and Toshiba
  • Telecom Italia executives quit, as investor Elliott calls move ‘stalling’
  • Board moves at Euronext and Latham & Watkins
  • Board moves at TUI Group and Mondi
  • Former easyJet CFO takes IoD chair during Lady Judge case
  • Board moves at AkzoNobel, Euromoney and Telit Communications
  • Board moves at Standard Life Aberdeen and Rolls-Royce
  • Lufthansa irks Belgians with restructuring of Brussels Airlines management
  • Board moves at Helical, Victrex and Future
  • Hargreaves Lansdown appoints Oppenheimer as new chair
  • Board moves at Haynes Publishing, Findel and Interserve
  • Meller quits Department for Education role over Presidents Club scandal
  • Board moves at Countrywide, Inchcape and Capita
  • Major board moves for British Land and insurance firm esure
  • Dixons Carphone CFO to join M&S as retailer steps up transformation plan
  • Tyler becomes chairman at Amey
  • Eric Schmidt steps down as chairman of Google owner
  • Rio Tinto appoints Simon Thompson as chairman
  • Long-serving Fransson takes chair at Net Insight
  • London Stock Exchange struck by leadership crisis after CEO quits
  • Investor ire sees Sir Mick Davis’s Rio Tinto chairmanship plan shelved
  • Olisa lined up for Interswitch; Whitman to leave Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Activist investor set for Procter & Gamble board after dramatic vote recount
  • Conservative Party CEO lined up for mining return with Rio Tinto
  • LSE clashes with shareholders over governance of CEO departure
  • Deutsche Börse CEO quits amid insider dealing investigation
  • Former AA chairman Bob Mackenzie faces bonus repayment demand
  • Hornby’s interim chairman sets departure time; Pettigrew quits Crest Nicholson
  • BP leadership set to change in search for new chairman
  • Sainsbury’s said to begin search for new chairman
  • Novartis appoints new chief executive as Jimenez retires
  • Air France-KLM hunts for female director after shareholder protest
  • Institutions oppose Sports Direct chairman’s reappointment
  • Infosys board cites ‘founder criticism’ as reason for CEO’s departure
  • Paddy Power Betfair CEO Corcoran to leave, while non-exec steps up
  • Major investors ditch Sports Direct holdings as governance concerns continue
  • The AA removes executive chairman citing ‘gross misconduct’
  • Drax builds sustainability credentials with Nussbaum appointment
  • MacKenzie set to face shareholders after taking the chair at BHP
  • ITV’s Crozier takes board role at Whitbread
  • Ethical ‘lapses’ driving more CEO departures, says study
  • New appointments this week
  • Legal & General man joins board of FRC
  • Mark Tucker to chair HSBC
  • Merger created between Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management
  • Tullow’s CEO to become chairman
  • ITV boss Adam Crozier to join Whitbread board as non-executive
  • Ghosn to chair Mitsubishi
  • DFS chairman to step down
  • Cobham chairman to step down
  • OECD committee gains new president and two new VPs
  • William Hill in board shake-up
  • Land Securities appoints Cadbury as NED
  • Tata replaces Mistry with interim chair
  • Cath Kidston names Wikstrom as NED
  • The Exeter appoints new NED
  • Chairman and NED to leave OneSavings
  • Dawson joins Lancashire as NED
  • Hampton joins Great Portland Estates
  • Fulham Shore appoints former Conran CEO
  • Mitchells & Butlers brings in Browne
  • Andalas hires oil and gas veteran Arnott
  • Hikma brings in Henderson
  • Thomson Reuters appoints Peck
  • Punch appoints Fox
  • Larmon joins Bodycote
  • Sinha travels to Verona
  • Electrocomponents plc picks Pryce
  • Jack Tai joins HSBC board
  • Ramsay joins Standard Life
  • Co-founder leaves Paddy Power Betfair
  • McGuire crosses the line for Sportech
  • Smile man joins Personal Group
  • Smurfit to chair John Menzies board
  • Tesco appoints Golsby
  • Shoe Zone chief executive takes on chairman’s role
  • EG Solutions appoints Payne
  • De La Rue appoints Bray
  • Soap maker banks on Silver
  • Griffiths joins Johnson Matthey board
  • Atkins has designs on Watkins
  • Glaxo signs Cox for responsibility role
  • Worldpay charges Karen Richardson with board duties
  • Parry joins Nationwide
  • Clemett joins Restaurant Group
  • John Menzies chairman steps down
  • Diageo reveals Ferran as new chairman
  • Sir Michael Peat joins M&C Saatchi
  • Edginton joins Elixirr
  • Jimmy Choo hires Elisabeth Murdoch as NED
  • Morrisons appoints Vennells
  • HSBC hires new non-execs
  • Stock Spirits appoints private equity adviser to board
  • Grimstone joins Barclays
  • Pearson makes Taurel chairman
  • Broderick joins Lombard
  • X5 makes DuCharme chairman
  • Bolloré becomes chairman at Canal+
  • Pötsch to head VW supervisory board
  • Dallaglio joins board of Wasps
  • Sara Mathew joins Shire
  • Henry Boot brings in new boardroom trio
  • Grafton appoints former Travis Perkins exec
  • Ryanair appoints Leahy and Millar
  • Pheonix appoints WH Smith chairman
  • Ruijter moves to chairman at Delta Lloyd
  • Rank bets on Hooper
  • BT dials up Mike Inglis
  • Esure’s remco hooks Pike
  • ARM signs two new non-executives
  • John Menzies delivers new senior non-exec
  • New non-execs stride into Jimmy Choo
  • Freestone joins Smith & Nephew and moneysupermarket.com
  • Richards checks in to Morrisons audit committee
  • Easyjet’s strategy guru joins Persimmon
  • Coke serves up new non-execs
  • Essien signs to Old Mutual
  • Standard Chartered bumps up Kheraj
  • Booker Group serves up Stewart Gilliland as chairman
  • New chairman at Charles Taylor plc
  • Domino’s audit committee cooks up new member
  • Shire appoints Olivier Bohuon
  • LSE brings Schapiro to the board
  • Peter Long to chair Royal Mail
  • HSBC signs two new non-execs
  • Cineworld brings in Warner Brothers star
  • Bichsel joins Petrofac
• Category: Board Resources & Advisers
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • ESG reporting all-important in stakeholder engagement
  • BDO now biggest auditor in the UK by number of listed clients
  • PwC loses top spot in the FTSE 100 audit rankings to KPMG
  • Relationship audit: how to maximise the benefits of your AIM auditors
  • BDO client increase sees it overtake KPMG in UK auditor rankings
  • Accountants must help business confront the challenge of climate change
  • Board performance evaluation: ticking a box or making a difference?
  • New SEC guidance increases pressure on proxy advisers over disclosures
  • Top proxy advisers sign up to new code of practice
  • How accountants can help build a culture of sustainability
• Category: Career
  • Meaning at work: the value of workplace rituals
  • Women hold only 13.7% of executive director roles in FTSE 100
  • New CEO appointments reflect ‘multi-dimensional role’ amid the pandemic
  • The new hybrid workplace will need organisational glue
  • Forced CEO turnover can damage the reputation of board directors
  • Executive gender pay gap diminishes over time—but doesn’t disappear
  • More than money: the evolving role of the chief financial officer
  • Diligent launches search for top 100 governance professionals 2020
  • Real deal: the advantages of being (seen as) authentic at work
  • Poor mental health ‘associated with greater CEO turnover’
  • Heartache to headache: why workplace relationships are a problem
  • CEOx1Day: ‘Valuable perspectives and a fresh way of looking at things’
  • What makes a successful non-executive director?
  • CEOx1Day: Giving future leaders a taste of the top job
  • Unconscious bias is keeping women out of senior roles
  • There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to boosting diversity and business growth  
• Category: Comment
  • A week of business moving to the centre of human rights
  • Why we need audit reform right now
  • Sustainability and climate change: the other energy crisis
  • Can ESG be saved?
  • The rise of corporate democracy
  • Are cyber disclosure demands too high?
  • ESG is not a ‘distraction’
  • The 30-year itch: time to ditch the UK Corporate Governance Code
  • The UK needs a code of conduct for company directors
  • Why risk perception is vital
  • What’s a company for? Milton Friedman responds
  • How to sink a reputation: lessons from the P&O Ferries crisis
  • BP and Shell windfall tax row reveals lack of progress on purpose
  • Could dual-class shares resuscitate the London Stock Exchange?
  • Are UK corporate governance rules leading to market malaise?
  • Executive pay, sustainability KPIs and the climate crisis
  • How to build strong governance ahead of an initial public offering
  • Predictable pay-outs expose the charade of performance-related pay
  • Good governance relies on gut instinct, not just rules
  • A remixed roadmap for the future of board leadership
  • Corporate purpose: reasons for optimism, but vigilance is required
  • Accountancy professionals can help boards to rethink risk
  • We need clearer, more consistent information on ESG
  • The UK has gone from leader to laggard on business and human rights
  • Why remote board meetings will survive the Covid pandemic
  • Workforce voice in corporate governance: where are we now?
  • Boardroom coup at ExxonMobil is a global governance earthquake
  • Why we need to redesign AGMs for the era of ESG
  • Activists set their sights on underperforming AIM boards
  • The new reality of ransomware attacks: better targeted, more damaging
  • Organisational culture is the key to rebuilding trust in audit
  • Fraud vigilance should be bolstered with the aid of technology
  • Dual-class shares threaten shareholder democracy and good governance
  • Audit and assurance policies: innovative ideas for change
  • What scandal is waiting to be exposed at your company?
  • Winning the case for sustainable corporate governance
  • The purpose and practice of independent board evaluations
  • Is it inevitable that the FTSE 350 is ahead on boardroom diversity?
  • Six key areas of brand activism—and how your company can speak out
  • Why directors should make compliance a strategic exercise
  • Why 2021 is a year of opportunity for boards to build business resilience
  • Why Covid-19 is driving action on climate, biodiversity and social justice
  • ‘A systemic risk’: investors demand greater ethnic diversity in boardrooms
  • CEO pay incentives reflect board priorities—and its still shareholder returns
  • Australian parliamentary report slams Rio Tinto board and culture
  • Corporate purpose: elevating performance from board to brands
  • New ISS benchmarks increase the pressure for diverse boards
  • From A to Zero: how to build a credible corporate net zero strategy
  • How 2020 has sparked acceleration to a comprehensive reporting system
  • Can business leaders be more effective human rights advocates?
  • ‘Tech emperors’ need effective checks and balances in the boardroom
  • How understanding AI can help the board to boost business
  • Companies should embrace Europe’s roadmap to stakeholder capitalism
  • Audit keeps failing—here’s why a fundamental change is needed
  • What’s a company for? An answer from Ancient Greece
  • Three teamwork trends that may not survive this crisis
  • Business looks to automation in the wake of Covid-19
  • Working from home? Stay alert to the risk of cyber-attacks
  • How will Covid-19 impact diversity in UK business?
  • What Covid-19 data can—and can’t—tell us about leadership
  • Will Covid-19 accelerate the shift towards stakeholder governance?
  • What every business can do to help during this crisis
  • Auditing global progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • What’s in your hand? How businesses can create social value
  • Who is an ‘essential worker’ at times of crisis?
  • Regulators must grant boards flexibility during Covid-19 crisis
  • Boards must harness tension to succeed in a time of disruption
  • Putting more women at the helm of corporate boards
  • Covid-19 is a new systemic risk. What are the implications for governance?
  • Section 172 reporting is an opportunity to increase transparency
  • Company purpose and profit are not mutually exclusive
  • Better sustainability disclosures require clear reporting boundaries
  • Stakeholder debate should not be used to weaken shareholder rights
  • The stakeholder capitalism era could mean more UK governance reform
  • How does your board deal with sexual misconduct?
  • How to hold businesses to account on carbon? Include their supply chains
  • New UK regulator should be freed to focus on audit
  • Why stakeholder capitalism is dominating the global business agenda
  • Why every company needs a chief fun officer
  • Five myths and five realities about the role of shareholders
  • Global leadership on sustainability requires greener boards
  • Be proactive with shareholder engagement to avoid damaging disputes
  • Designing a suitable taxonomy for a sustainable future
  • Integrating climate reporting is key to effective risk management
  • A manifesto for UK leadership on corporate governance
  • Organisations are still falling short on staff mental health
  • McDonald’s upheaval is a stern reminder to CEOs about ethics
  • Shareholder activism might sound good, but it won’t change much
  • When fighting social injustice clashes with shareholder demands
  • TCFD summit confirms climate risk should be your board’s priority
  • Due diligence in recruitment requires the human touch
  • Corporate reporting best practice
  • How corporate governance can drive a sustainable economy
  • Strategic shifts are needed to ensure due diligence in global supply chains
  • A new agenda for Europe: capital markets union, sustainability and IPOs
  • Company data: balancing transparency with privacy
  • Why insecure leaders trust algorithms over advisers
  • Audit and technology: not a panacea, but a catalyst for improvement
  • Better Alignment Project maps the road to sustainability
  • If you want employees to speak up, show that you will listen
  • Board preparation is key to fighting the ransomware threat
  • Imbalance of power: loyalty shares threaten ‘one share, one vote’
  • Integrated reporting: a framework for a more sustainable future
  • Financial risk: questions the board should ask in uncertain times
  • Shaping the boards of the future
  • Revised EU Shareholder Rights Directive puts engagement in the spotlight
  • Broadening board diversity is good corporate governance
  • Social media: when personal beliefs clash with corporate values
  • How many chairships is too many?
  • The changing face of activism
  • Boardroom lessons from Brexit
  • Nissan’s governance report is a warning for all boards
  • Promoting SME growth markets
  • Why boards need to support whistleblowers
  • The growth of impact investing and the role of boards
  • Business minister’s intervention on board diversity is long overdue
  • King IV code change favours quantity over quality
  • How to accelerate gender diversity
  • Separation of powers makes for healthy board dynamics
  • Dim prospects for employees on boards
  • Gender diversity on UK boards in need of a ‘step change’
  • Balancing act: stock exchanges and dual-class shares
  • How strong investor relationships stem from enhanced dialogue
  • Workforce disclosure – on the agenda and here to stay
  • Sink or swim: board leaders must go on a journey of discovery
  • Opinions of the code: The good, the bad and the missed out
  • Action needed now on banking fraud and the erosion of trust
  • Next-generation thinking on governance can’t be ignored
  • Why serious investors demand more than just climate disclosure
  • Making a difference through diversity in the boardroom
  • How business can recognise the true value of people and communities
  • The audit market concentration ratchet strengthens case for reform
  • The gloves are off: gender pay gap reporting and dirty tricks
  • How boards can use technology to retain a competitive edge
  • Grant Thornton’s decision throws a cloud over audit market
  • Will a private company governance code really duck executive pay?
  • Facebook makes data ethics the big governance issue
  • Stepping up supply chain protection
  • Share buybacks: a question of governance?
  • Want gender diversity on corporate boards? Try a diversity of tactics
  • Why modesty is king when it comes to CEO remuneration
  • Twenty-five years of the UK Corporate Governance Code
  • Is British business behaving more ethically, or does it just look that way?
  • UK’s draft new governance code has a social mission
  • Are directors courting legal action by keeping quiet on climate risk?
  • Every board has a role in the transition to a low-carbon economy
  • There’s still everything to gain from having workers on boards
  • Origins of investor stewardship and the Japan code
  • The Bored: Higgins on (un)sustainability
  • Sustainable development means securing the future of business
  • South Africa needs a stepped-up approach to governance
  • View from the chair: Ken Olisa on good governance
  • Female directors positively influence firms’ corporate social performance
  • Governance concerns the whole organisation, not just the board
  • Why every board should care about their working carers
  • The Bored: Higgins on digital non-transformation
  • Digital revolution: how business can address the impact
  • Directors must do more to restore public trust
  • Inclusive capitalism and total stakeholder value: the ideal marriage
  • Human capital disclosure – resist, comply or exploit?
  • Governance: collective wisdom applied to complex uncertainty
  • Sustainable Finance report: implications for investors and directors
  • World of uncertainty for governance as need for change intensifies
  • France: Macron and the future of corporate governance
  • Good governance should start with boards’ own performance
  • What’s next for corporate reporting: the technology question
  • Doubts for governance reform in hung parliament
  • Giving out perks doesn’t necessarily lead to results
  • Long-term thinking: a key principle of 21st-century governance
  • General election creates uncertainty for governance reform
  • Barclays’ whistleblowing debacle will affect public perception of governance
  • Governance should aim at investment for greater good
  • Integrated thinking can create long-term value
  • Brexit: a strategic risk that makes scenario-planning a priority
  • Why one share, one vote is the best long-term investment option
  • Time to focus on reputation
  • Why women and men too easily accept the gender pay gap
  • Purpose at the heart of business and how to achieve it
  • Untangling corporate governance
  • That was the governance week
  • Trump puts business values to the test
  • Trump’s travel ban and the challenge to governance
  • Why the pay debate refuses to go away
  • Bringing stakeholder comms online
  • Davos: Debunking the myth of shareholder primacy
  • Executive pay battle: a futile stomp over old ground
  • The Bored
  • Mind the (pay) gap
  • Beyond the boardroom
  • Director performance and the ‘expectations gap’
  • Let’s keep integrated reporting voluntary
  • Reasons to be cheerful: ICGN/IIRC conference
  • Build your company’s future on trust
  • FTSE not just delivering value for shareholders
  • Rebuilding trust, going beyond compliance
  • Workers on boards make sense and add value
  • Trump is here. What of governance?
  • Will Theresa May transform business?
  • Why contract theory won the Nobel economics prize
  • Claw backs, CHOICE and governance
  • Feel the heat: climate change reporting
  • Climate change: the reporting debate
  • Cleaning up the governance act
  • America’s boardroom diversity crisis
  • Theresa May and the future of corporate governance
  • Brexit waiting game
  • The future after Brexit
  • New audit regs are here
  • Tax transparency is here to stay
  • The tragedy of BHS governance
  • Fostering the principle
  • Two hats
  • ‘Guinea pigs’ or highly trained professionals?
  • The great IT meltdown
  • Rethinking risk leadership
  • Anti-social behaviour
  • Capital markets union and governance
  • Banks, governance and selling RBS
  • Britain’s broken corporate governance regime
• Category: ESG
  • Threat to stakeholder governance from Twitter sale ‘overstated’
  • Elon Musk weighs in against ISS and Glass Lewis
  • Climate litigation: how 2022 will shape 2023
  • Activist investor campaigns rise back up to pre-Covid levels
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Companies ‘will face growing climate litigation’
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Retail’s ethical failures top the 2022 list
  • Say-on-climate voting is on the up, but investor support falls
  • D&O insurance looks to ESG liability
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Board priorities 2023: tact, trust and transparency
  • Biodiversity crisis: pressure builds on companies
  • How to ensure stakeholders trust your sustainability reporting
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Fall in number of firms doing well on climate disclosures
  • Call to reform ‘comply-or-explain’ element of governance
  • Stakeholder engagement: it’s time to ditch public vs private
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Most investors believe annual reports contain greenwashing
  • 5 questions to help boards walk the green talk
  • Last-minute appeal to strengthen due diligence directive
  • US moves to link ESG and executive pay
  • OneLove, but not at the World Cup
  • Board focus is essential to improving human rights
  • Twitter’s sale to Elon Musk leaves stakeholder governance high and dry
  • US companies face governance issue over abortion rights
  • ESG: what happened at the 2022 proxy season?
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • OECD governance code review falls short of expectations
  • ESG and your supply chain
  • BlackRock to test shareholder democracy in the UK
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Share schemes could make employees ‘better off’ during cost of living crisis
  • Watchdog aims to clamp down on greenwashing
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Investors call for sustainability standards to take in ‘double materiality’
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Experts clash over ESG investment ‘agenda’
  • Greenwashing: are directors ultimately liable?
  • Investors seek clarity from firms on net zero pledges
  • Leadership in ESG: take part in our survey
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Meta faces US lawsuit over its corporate governance
  • Improve reporting of boardroom ethnic diversity action, says FRC
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Executive remuneration through the ESG lens
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Corporate efforts to define their ‘purpose’ fail to convince employees
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • BlackRock defends its ESG position
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • The long and winding road to financial reporting standards
  • Campaigners protest against EU due diligence proposals
  • Companies fail to credibly commit to net zero pledges
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • UK leads as say-on-climate voting grows across Europe
  • Climate change gets up close and personal for board members
  • ESG legislation: What are the FRC proposals?
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • The ESG debate needs to be more nuanced
  • Companies urged to dig deeper on climate change reporting
  • Virtual AGMs fall out of favour
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Investors influence ESG performance, study reveals
  • Norges Bank backs mandatory US climate risk reporting
  • Meta publishes first human rights report
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Business Roundtable takes aim at SEC climate risk reporting
  • Regulator to review impact of ESG ratings on firms
  • Focus on the ‘G’ of ESG
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Supreme Court ruling ‘may derail SEC’s climate reporting rules’
  • Greenwashing threatens shareholders’ interests
  • Companies ‘may inflate ESG performance’ to boost ratings
  • Technology, cyber risk and ESG top list of business leaders’ concerns
  • Unilever CEO defends company’s focus on sustainability
  • Government confirms commitment to sustainability disclosure requirements
  • Growing backlash against ‘inflexible dogma’ of ESG
  • Landscape for retail boards ‘more challenging and complex than ever’
  • Battle of the boards: risk, ESG and two-tier board structures
  • EU’s human rights and sustainability law faces criticism from academics
  • ClientEarth’s climate case against Shell ‘likely to fail’
  • Corporate sanctions against Russia indicate a new level of social responsibility
  • Directors need to ‘up their game’ on ESG strategy
  • AGMs 2022: a focus on logistics, ESG and executive pay
  • SEC unveils plan for mandatory climate reporting
  • Investment managers hesitant to embrace ethics as part of ESG
  • Amazon shareholders call for tax transparency
  • Stewardship goals: creating value, responsibly, with a sense of purpose
  • EU publishes proposals for human rights due diligence law
  • UK shareholder pay revolts increase by 56% in 2021
  • Audit committees and ESG: ‘It’s a difficult journey to navigate’
  • Climate risk and supply chains revealed as AGM hot topics for 2022
  • Companies cut emissions after earnings calls that mention climate
  • Rio Tinto report reveals culture of sexual harassment, bullying and racism
  • Why the right sponsors are crucial to women’s leadership progress
  • GE whizz: Jack Welch’s focus on corporate culture was ahead of his time
  • Ethics in the technology sector remains a headline issue
  • Stakeholder capitalism ‘won’t work’—but investors need to do more
  • BlackRock CEO letter: stakeholderism ‘is not woke’, it’s capitalism
  • It’s time for boards to make new resolutions on ESG performance
  • Annual survey reveals 42% of the public consider business ‘unethical’
  • PwC CEO survey reveals climate strategy challenges
  • US corporate governance improvements ‘slowed or stagnated’ in 2021
  • High Pay Day reflects slight fall in FTSE 100 CEO pay
  • Financial reporting must show real impact—and costs—of ESG activities
  • Greater board diversity drives company climate action
  • Good ESG ratings make firms more attractive to long-term investors
  • Companies must put equality at the heart of the race to zero
  • Executive pay—buying virtue
  • Leading change: the board’s role in driving business transformation
  • Does diversity deliver? We don’t know yet—and here’s why
  • In extreme times, we need new priorities for corporate governance
  • What really determines CEO compensation?
  • What works? Achieving gender balance on executive teams
  • The challenges of balancing purpose with performance
  • Company purpose is more than a marketing slogan—it’s a new philosophy
  • The ‘G’ in ESG: what needs to be reported on governance
  • Why boards should address value preservation at a strategic level
  • AGM season will see focus on reporting, remuneration and communication
  • Beyond Covid: risk and resilience among governance trends for 2021
  • The ICGN Global Stewardship Principles: 2020 revisions
  • Responsible innovation: implications for corporate governance
  • ICGN issues guidance for investors amid Covid-19 pandemic
  • How companies can develop more diverse boardrooms
  • Why workforce disclosure is a governance issue
  • ESG catalysts: how consumers can change corporations
  • ESG reporting: what is the endgame?
  • Special report: Future-proofing financial services
  • Prepare for the transition to a zero-carbon, digital economy
  • Ten mistakes boards can avoid on human rights
  • Follow the rules of corporate obligation, and reap the rewards
  • Solving deep problems with corporate governance requires more than rearranging deck chairs
  • ESG: is it truly being integrated with investment decisions?
  • Facebook’s fail: the ‘story’, the risks and the role of the board
  • Sustainable expectations: how the ESG investment agenda is shifting
  • Reporting directive paves way for improved accountability
  • Ethical turn: the welcome marriage of risk management and ethics
  • European survey: boards struggle with culture
  • Sense in sustainability: the changing focus for boards
  • Non-Financial Reporting Directive: embracing the challenge
• Category: Ethics
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • EU under fire over sustainability reporting reforms
  • US passes clawback rules
  • MPs demand jail time for directors who fail to prevent fraud
  • Renewed call for human rights due diligence law
  • Ethics, ‘shareholder wealth’ and Twitter drove companies to quit Russia
  • Pressure renewed for human rights due diligence
  • Ben & Jerry’s governance tested in court
  • Consumers judge a company by its ‘morality’
  • Regulator fines KPMG £14.4m
  • CEO Covid pay cuts merely ‘symbolic’
  • FRC launches probe into professional exams
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Corporate world urged to show its ‘ethical credentials’
  • Into the mind of white-collar criminals
  • Why big firms are rarely toppled by corporate scandals
  • Companies protest delay in EU human rights due diligence legislation
  • UN calls for ‘culture change’ to improve human rights in supply chains
  • Gen Z investors’ focus on ethics and ESG poses a challenge for boards
  • CEOs who post on social media ‘more likely to trade in their own stocks’
  • Calls grow for tougher rules on human rights in supply chains
  • Rise of the machines requires a ‘stakeholder approach’ from boards
  • Ethical investor Trillium issues warning to Alphabet over whistleblowing
  • Survey reveals lack of policies and procedures for corporate ethics
  • Ethics survey reveals global pandemic of misconduct
  • Furlough cash adds to ethical dilemmas around executive pay
  • Pandemic shows ‘broader range of expertise’ is needed on boards
  • If you get on with your boss you’re more likely to lie for them
  • Boohoo board in the firing line over governance failings
  • Four principles to keep your business’s social purpose goals on track
  • Three cognitive biases perpetuating racism at work—and how to overcome them
  • Covid crisis could lead employees to ‘compromise ethical standards’
  • Equality pays: the economic and social benefits of women on boards
  • Governance week: Covid business models, CEO pay, CSR, McDonald’s scandal
  • From codes to committees: the institutionalisation of business ethics
  • Is human rights risk monitoring a weak link in your supply chain?
  • Stakeholderism: study finds evidence in short supply
  • How the impact of Covid-19 could cause an epidemic of misconduct
  • Social factors ‘now key to good corporate governance’ says ICGN
  • Investors call for mandatory human rights due diligence
  • Businesses ‘must consider human rights’ amid pandemic response
  • Fall in number of boards that ‘discuss ethics on a regular basis’
  • Big data ‘poses biggest ethical challenge’ for businesses
  • Moral leadership has a positive impact—if you tread carefully
  • Public confidence in ethical business behaviour falters
  • UK CEOs ‘not incentivised’ to focus on their environmental impact
  • Anti-bribery and corruption efforts ‘compromised’ by poor procedures
  • Norway pushes for mandatory human rights due diligence
  • Companies need to grow the pie, not worry about how to split it
  • Norges Bank excludes G4S from portfolio over human rights concerns
  • Mind the gap: enabling productive thinking to develop gender balance
  • Campaigners call for German supply chain law to protect human rights
  • Debate over ‘shareholder’ or ‘stakeholder’ primacy goes global
  • Human rights due diligence push ‘could turn boards into legal departments’
  • Financial watchdog moves to strengthen audit ethics
  • Ethics body issues warning to boards over AI accountability
  • Executives: the new social leaders
  • Ethical business in the age of AI
  • Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal ‘a failure of governance’
  • Data security poses growing ethics risk
  • Battling climate change boosts stock performance
  • Sustainability, creating value & the role of the board
  • 2018: A year in governance
  • Portuguese workers lead on ethics
  • How the Google walkout was no ordinary employee protest
  • BlackRock’s sustainable investment ambition
  • The Khashoggi crisis and the role of business
  • Sustainable Development Goals: which comes first?
  • Rise in firms taking responsibility for ESG
  • Business ethics and building a strong ethical culture
  • Opinion split over the rise of the integrity officer
  • Ethics: Must have, not nice to have
  • Responsible business conduct: the OECD way
  • Enforcement activity of City watchdog FCA increases
  • MPs call for extension of gender pay gap reporting
  • Gender diversity in Singapore’s boardrooms makes progress
  • When doing good garners bad press
  • Pressure increases on European employees to compromise ethics
  • Business ethics: Why do good people do bad things?
  • Pension fund trustees to report on climate change policies
  • LGIM names companies performing badly on climate change
  • Research reveals executives’ views on the ethics of high pay
  • OECD publishes guidance on responsible business due diligence
  • Facebook under scrutiny by ESG funds as shares plummet
  • Whistleblowing: the problem with speaking out
  • Corporate culture: concept into focused action
  • Confidence high in harassment and misconduct policies after Weinstein
  • Artificial Intelligence: the ethical dimension
  • Ethics institute reveals principles for safe use of AI
  • Lessons from Sweden in sustainable business
  • Lead by example: the many benefits of ethical leadership
  • Opinion of business ethics rallies, but stays lower than 2015 level
  • Industrial strategy calls for improved reporting of capital allocation
  • Campaigners call on EU to back mandatory human rights due diligence
  • Call for more corporate reporting on UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Rolls-Royce executives plead guilty to bribery charges
  • US watchdog raises hurdle for shareholder votes
  • Businesses lack commitment to ethics, say UK and Irish workers
  • Personal moral values key to ethical corporate governance
  • PwC reveals BAME pay gap of 12.8% in bid to ‘shine spotlight on ethnicity’
  • Ethics must be ‘front and centre’ as non-executives check financial reports
  • Corporate culture: five questions for the boardroom
  • PR agency expelled from professional body for ‘racially divisive’ work
  • Ethical principles vital as digital age recasts business environment
  • A partner for society: Alice Steenland
  • A matter of principle: Fiona Reynolds
  • Whistleblowers should not be incentivised with payments, says ecoDa
  • Reward whistleblowers, says Lib Dem peer
  • All employees should be given digital skills
  • Speak up: how to encourage whistleblowing in your organisation
  • Why UK companies cannot ignore modern slavery reporting
  • A good investment: Steve Waygood
  • Watchdog worried climate disclosures will lead to ‘checklist mentality’
  • Trump will not derail ESG investment, say experts
  • Trump inauguration prompts questions over business ethics
  • Norwegian oil fund to focus on ‘unacceptable emissions’
  • VW: restoring confidence
  • Compliance: why it pays to stay on the right side of the law
  • Weighing up the new standard on anti-bribery
  • Patagonia: the business of virtue
  • Empowerment, not punishment, fuels ethical behaviour
  • GSK pays $20m to settle China bribery charges
  • Slavery Act: UK companies under fire over statements
  • Non-executives ‘influential’ on corporate culture but worried by information
  • Race and ethnicity perceived as barrier to boardrooms
  • Tokyo’s governance revolution
  • World exchanges push ESG agenda
  • Climate of change
  • The plague of VW
  • Agents for positive change
  • Prioritising mental health
  • Investors take a stand on climate change
  • Diversity’s strategic imperative
• Category: Finance
  • Audit reform in the UK risks ‘losing momentum’
  • FRC unveils new audit committee standards
  • Years after Carillion’s collapse, the UK still waits for audit reform
  • How to beat short selling activism
  • BlackRock expands voting choice in response to investor demand
  • Company credit ratings ‘negatively associated with CEO narcissism’
  • Global minimum corporate tax rate negotiations ‘need a fairer forum’
  • Why CFOs need to engage with external stakeholders
  • Internal auditors sound alarm over corporate culture
  • UK sanctions on Russia reveal risk of complex corporate structures
  • Language used in financial press releases ‘reveals M&A prospects’
  • Audit committee chairs ‘are confusing quality of audit and quality of service’
  • Jan du Plessis gives first insights into FRC governance and audit reform
  • Anglo-Saxon CEOs ‘increase a firm’s risk profile through their decisions’
  • What the decline of General Electric can teach us about M&As
  • Elliott Advisors calls for restructuring of the SSE board
  • Investor activism set to enter ‘golden age’ as firms emerge from pandemic
  • FRC warns over climate disclosures ahead of COP26 summit
  • UK green finance report puts focus on transition plans
  • Climate disclosures ‘unlikely to drive a green transition’
  • Dual-class shares ‘would enhance investor protection’
  • Corporate disclosures and investor relations ‘impaired by Covid-19’
  • Going green benefits businesses—and should be central to their recovery
  • Blockchain, supply chains and the post-Covid world
  • How blockchain can create more resilient supply chains in the post-Covid recovery
  • Establishing vision and values in financial services
  • Conflicts of interest: the global fight over dual-class shares
  • Lawful impediment: company law and insider control
• Category: Governance
  • Top stories of 2022: corporate governance gets political
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • UK boards face internal controls shake-up
  • How companies are hosting AGMs now
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Can outsourcing improve governance?
  • Auditors press for internal controls law
  • Law experts defend Nasdaq in board diversity battle
  • Fresh detail for reforming Section 172
  • How Nasdaq’s board diversity rule creates potential for real change
  • Twitter drops due diligence bombshell
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • How to ensure governance of artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Cyber security reporting falls short
  • Governance code reforms will ramp up internal controls
  • Why do boards fail?
  • Companies that make political donations are ‘less risky’
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • 5 reasons for boards to implement a whistleblowing solution
  • IoD calls for voluntary code of conduct for board directors
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Gender diversity warning for FTSE All-Share Index
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • EU proposes 40% quota for female non-executives
  • Is there a Machiavellian CEO in your boardroom?
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Disaster or disruption? Crisis management requires clear definitions
  • Government publishes response to audit reform proposals
  • Women take 54% of FTSE 350 board roles but fail to win ‘top jobs’
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • World Economic Forum issues business guidance on human rights
  • Average FTSE 350 pay ratio ‘almost doubles’ in 2022
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Age-diverse boards associated with less corporate misconduct
  • Politics in the Magic Kingdom: Disney, DeSantis and LGBTQ+ rights
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Directors’ social networks reduce risk of corporate failure
  • Parker Review: progress update and priorities for change
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Most CEO ‘resignations’ may actually be terminations
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Executive pay rebounds as pandemic recedes
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Is Elon Musk trolling Twitter?
  • The diversity narrative: a strategy for improved performance
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • When did your board last review CEO performance?
  • Companies made ‘fake cuts’ to CEO pay during pandemic
  • Ericsson faces shareholder ire over Iraq investigation
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • BlackRock CEO: War ends globalisation, but we’ll still get to net zero
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Shell faces shareholder litigation over climate risk
  • SEC set to issue proposals on US climate change disclosures
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Research reveals Silicon Valley’s growing appetite for dual-class shares
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Senator Marco Rubio calls for workers to sit on US boards
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Steps for a smooth and successful CEO transition
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Board priorities 2022: a checklist for directors
  • TUC urges change to company law that prioritises shareholders
  • Governance 2022: multidimensional landscape brings board challenges
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Boards must ‘keep momentum going’ to improve ethnic diversity
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Boards ‘lack the right knowledge’ to set effective climate policies
  • Top 150 UK firms have more women than men in non-executive roles
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • NGOs challenge European Commission on delay to human rights law
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Watchdog highlights companies’ lack of progress on C-suite succession planning
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Boards need dedicated ESG committees ‘as part of company strategy’
  • CEO pay falls by 9%—but LGIM issues warning over engagement
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Investor pressure ‘should be primary tool’ in changing firms’ ESG behaviour
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • NEDs at a time of crisis: ‘The culture of boards made a huge difference’
  • Pandemic ‘has shown how vital employees are to corporate success’
  • COP26: plans revealed for new international sustainability standards
  • Cutting quarterly reporting may undermine the value of companies
  • Women on boards ‘are driving progress on ESG’
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Top UK companies push for mandatory human rights due diligence
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • The storm before the calm: how boards can make better decisions
  • US senator Marco Rubio: ‘woke corporations’ could breach fiduciary duty
  • Companies with narcissistic CEOs have lower share prices but better governance
  • Firms with a strong CSR record are more likely to survive a crisis
  • South Africa is tightening its rules around executive pay, but gaps remain
  • New Zealand parliament to debate reform to directors’ duties
  • BLM protests see investors back boards with black directors
  • Independent directors play essential role in assessing share buybacks
  • Boards prioritising company insiders over independence
  • Company law ‘should place purpose at the centre of business’
  • Dual-class shares ‘would enhance investor protection’
  • What boards need to know about sanctions risk and legislation
  • Covid causes fall in CEO pay—but excessive earnings remain an issue
  • What boards need to know about sanctions risk and legislation
  • How resilience reporting could help firms meet future challenges
  • Board networks: who you know contributes to what you know
  • Academic warns that ‘good’ corporations are bad for democracy
  • Covid causes fall in CEO pay—but excessive earnings remain an issue
  • FRC says climate disclosures are ‘failing to meet investor expectations’
  • Board networks: who you know contributes to what you know
  • FRC calls on companies to provide more detailed climate disclosures
  • Boards ‘should add technology to governance concerns’
  • Europe sees 18% increase in shareholder revolts on executive pay
  • Introduction of dual-class shares could create ‘unsackable CEOs’
  • US corporates ‘should do more’ to help environment and low-paid workers
  • Audit committees ‘lose independence’ the longer they serve
  • Pandemic ‘opened door’ to the use of new boardroom technology
  • MPs call for new parliamentary committee to scrutinise tax deals
  • Boards need to stop ESG greenwashing and recognise reputational threats
  • Changes to company law would enable use of ‘robot directors’
  • Pay experts recommend a revamp of remco responsibilities
  • BlackRock voting report reveals focus on independence and diversity
  • Stubborn group of ‘bubble-bound’ boards ‘do not treat diversity as a priority’
  • FRC report calls for more diversity on nominations committees
  • UK sees fall in number of shareholder votes against directors’ re-election
  • Shareholder votes on climate action plans ‘more complex’ than expected
  • ESG activism ‘likely to proliferate’ following ExxonMobil vote
  • Directors’ duties: more enforcement needed to drive action on climate
  • Audit reform consultation set to close as dissenting voices emerge
  • Good governance boosts companies’ CSR performance
  • Boardroom pay revolts are on the rise as investors seek restraint
  • Executive remuneration models ‘do not describe how pay is actually set’
  • OECD warns that Covid-19 requires a governance response
  • ACGA urges overhaul of Hong Kong corporate governance
  • The regulator’s dilemma: finding a balance between trust and compliance
  • MEPs protest over EU sustainable corporate governance measures
  • To B-Corp or not to B-Corp? FRC chief says no in governance debate
  • US firms ask SEC to introduce global standards on climate reporting
  • FTSE4Good companies warned over new ESG standards
  • Volkswagen insurance payout ‘sets a dangerous precedent’
  • NBIM says China should tighten rules on corporate ESG reporting
  • UK and EU companies lead the US on ESG targets in pay deals
  • Ranking companies by corporate governance scores ‘improves standards’
  • Do CEOs matter?
  • Shell climate plan ruling holds lessons for investors
  • Liquid asset: corporate boards and water risk management
  • S&P 500 appoints nearly 200% more black board directors in past year
  • Worker engagement report reveals ‘pockets’ of good practice
  • Taming the tiger: how investors are tackling inflation in executive pay
  • Diversity in the UK: progress on targets, but power imbalances remain
  • System error: why AI without humans is a governance challenge
  • Hong Kong reforms could see company directors’ details kept private
  • Hill Review proposals could trigger fight to block FTSE dual-class shares
  • Japan to include human rights reference in its corporate governance code
  • US boards ‘should develop transparent policies on political issues’
  • FTSE 100 rejects idea of employee director to boost worker engagement
  • Companies with female directors ‘do better on E&S measures’
  • Super League debacle gives ‘fresh impetus’ to campaign for company law reform
  • Auditors on notice to reject ‘expectations gap’ consultation
  • Governance safeguards ‘detrimental’ to dual-class share proposals
  • Campaign urges reform of section 172 to promote ‘purpose of the company’
  • Academics issue ‘call for reflection’ on EU corporate governance reforms
  • Controversy as US moves towards mandatory ESG disclosures
  • Climate reporting requires ‘shift in approach’ to reflect TCFD principles
  • LGIM backs calls for ‘say on climate’ shareholder votes
  • LGIM annual report reveals 21% rise in ‘active engagement’ in 2020
  • State Street Global Advisors CEO calls for improved diversity reporting
  • UK stewardship code ‘has not changed the nature of investor engagement’
  • Do we overestimate the impact of CEOs on company performance?
  • Audit white paper proposes new powers for regulator to sanction directors
  • Linking pay to ESG targets ‘could have unintended consequences’
  • Business leaders issue warning on governance rules and sustainability
  • Dual-class shares come a step closer in the UK as Lord Hill issues review
  • Hampton-Alexander report highlights lack of women on executive teams
  • Investors and analysts ‘still learning to price ESG-related incidents’
  • Bonuses and bias: the risks of variable pay for compliance professionals
  • Diversity milestone as FTSE 350 bids farewell to all-male boards (again)
  • AIM and FTSE SMC companies lag behind larger firms on diversity
  • FRC backs use of augmented and virtual reality in corporate reporting
  • Adoption of ESG pay incentives ‘doubles over past two years’
  • Norges Bank rejects idea of standards for board sustainability skills
  • Reforms impose new responsibilities on directors for financial reporting
  • Progress on ethnic diversity in FTSE 100 boardrooms ‘has stalled’
  • Dual-class shares: “Solutions exist to mitigate the governance risk”
  • Norges Bank divests from companies over tax issues
  • Annual BlackRock CEO letter focuses on climate and diversity
  • Board evaluations review finds room for improvement
  • Boards urged to reform AGMs as part of post-pandemic strategy
  • Investor group calls for shareholder votes on climate strategy
  • Local CEOs ‘spend more on CSR in their communities’
  • CEO pay: FTSE 100 bosses earn median annual wage in 34 hours
  • Pay ratio reports: boards challenged to reveal how they will use data
  • NBIM set to publish voting intentions five days before company AGMs
  • It’s time for sustainability to be the big issue in the boardroom
  • ‘Unfriendly’ boards served better information by CEOs
  • Sacha Sadan: ‘Good companies have always thought about these issues’
  • LGIM’s Sacha Sadan on stewardship and sustainability
  • ‘Future generations’ clause in section 172 could boost sustainability
  • Evidence builds for introduction of new audit committee standards
  • Shareholder pressure gets women directors on US boards
  • Does your board have the ESG skills they need for future success?
  • Watchdog’s ire provoked by ‘vague’ purpose statements
  • Decrease in CEO pay variation blamed on ‘reciprocal benchmarking’
  • UK to review dual-class shares as part of consultation on listings
  • Roadmap to mandatory TCFD reporting ‘should focus minds’
  • Audit fees increase when foreign investors become majority owners
  • FRC says climate disclosures are ‘failing to meet investor expectations’
  • Biden presidency set to bring corporate governance shift
  • Dividend payouts set to resume after pandemic-related cuts
  • Brussels pushes ahead with project for new European governance
  • BlackRock backs global sustainability reporting standards
  • Governance experts call for US Stakeholder Capitalism Act
  • Business leaders want incentives to spur switch to ‘purposeful’ companies
  • How hedge fund activists influence target firms
  • FRC issues further warning over Covid and corporate reporting
  • Changes to company constitutions ‘could allow use of AI on the board’
  • LGIM says it’s ‘time for action’ to boost ethnic diversity on boards
  • Nominations open for the Non-Executive Director Awards 2021
  • Businesses ‘can play important role in stemming executive misconduct’
  • How good governance can stop toxic ‘bro behaviour’ at companies
  • EcoAct sustainability study warns of FTSE 100 performance gap
  • When corporate social responsibility is mostly for show
  • Vanguard takes big names to task over pay and climate policies
  • Share buybacks criticised for ‘short-term self-enrichment’ of executives
  • Governance week: Rio Tinto, ESG, climate risk, Aussie audit
  • Women leaders are better at fighting the pandemic
  • How directors should manage AI, GDPR and data privacy risks
  • Not business as usual: returning to the workplace after the pandemic
  • Only 8% of UK businesses have ‘fully-fledged’ climate risk plan
  • Why succession planning should be part of a company’s corporate culture
  • Corporate support builds for mandatory human rights due diligence
  • US rule change sets up clash with proxy advisers
  • Companies ‘need new mechanism’ to integrate stakeholder interests
  • Power, politics and crisis response on the board
  • Why is there a progress gap between FTSE gender and ethnicity targets?
  • Governance week: stakeholderism, US election, IoD departure, ESG blow
  • Average US CEO pay increases to $21.3m
  • ESG ‘not a factor’ in share price resilience during Covid-19 crisis
  • Worker directors: what to consider when appointing employees to boards
  • What would a Biden–Harris victory mean for US corporate governance?
  • Covid-19: cuts to executive pay ‘mainly superficial or short term’
  • A blueprint for business to transition to a nature-positive future
  • UK dividends slashed by a ‘dizzying’ £22bn in Q2
  • CVAs: flexible business aid or delaying the inevitable?
  • #MeToo continues: why sexual harassment is a growing litigation risk
  • Warning over boardroom composition as businesses adapt to Covid-19
  • Boohoo supply chain under scrutiny after Leicester lockdown claims
  • Axa introduces 33% gender diversity target for investee companies
  • FRC issues principles for separation of audit from other services
  • Companies Act duties ‘need testing in the courts’ to improve governance
  • The PEP framework: how business can harness the power of purpose
  • Governance centre aims to rebuild ‘professional legitimacy’ of directors
  • Institute of Directors launches new corporate governance centre
  • Top US CEO pay falls 53% as pandemic and investor pressure continues
  • Investors want gender diversity on boards—but aren’t sure about targets
  • Importance of culture ‘ignored by most corporate governance codes’
  • Investors use securities law to sue over sexual misconduct
  • Norges Bank issues warning over shareholder proposals
  • Investors signal unease with banks’ support for Hong Kong security law
  • US public backs shift to stakeholder capitalism amid Covid-19
  • Twitter CEO takes on Trump over tweets that ‘violate company rules’
  • Covid-19 pandemic ‘has accelerated shift to stakeholderism’
  • Growth in protectionism ‘threatens corporate governance’
  • FRC urges companies to provide ‘full disclosure’ of survival prospects
  • ‘Chairman contagion’ highlighted as growing reputational risk
  • McKinsey diversity report highlights growing performance risk
  • LGIM to vote against ExxonMobil chair over climate concerns
  • MPs call for ban on state aid for firms using tax havens
  • Quarter of FTSE 100 companies cut executive pay
  • Companies ‘failing to demonstrate oversight of vulnerable workers’
  • ‘Going concern’ regulation puts firms and auditors under the microscope
  • Government bail-outs indicate ‘shift in mindset’ towards societal purpose
  • Asset managers urge restraint on executive pay during pandemic
  • Warnings over risk of investor activism as boards focus on survival
  • Investors ‘expect boards to take a long-term view’ amid crisis
  • Succession planning in the spotlight amid ‘genuine shock’ of PM’s illness
  • No more business as usual: Professor Colin Mayer, Saïd Business School
  • Covid-19 adds to an unprecedented landscape of risk
  • Collaboration is key for the challenging AGM season ahead
  • Pushback on buybacks as global brands postpone plans
  • FRC warns firms to be candid about prospects of corporate failure
  • Regulators offer guidance on AGMs amid Covid-19 pandemic
  • Leaders in crisis: why teamwork is the way forward
  • FRC chief indicates support for a UK version of Sarbanes-Oxley
  • FTSE firms given written warning over gender diversity
  • Bank of England economist Andy Haldane enters stakeholder debate
  • EU set to review its Non-Financial Reporting Directive
  • UK watchdog to review companies’ climate reporting
  • FRC issues advice on coronavirus risk disclosures
  • Most EU non-financial reporting is ‘poor quality’
  • FTSE 100 hits target on female board directors—but challenges remain
  • Parker Review reveals slow progress on ethnic minority appointments
  • LGIM to vote against combined CEO/chair roles worldwide
  • CEO pay and director re-elections named top issues for shareholder dissent
  • EcoDa: Stakeholder model should not turn boards into “bargaining bodies”
  • Public loses faith in capitalism while backing ‘stakeholder’ business
  • UK firms urged to improve carbon emissions reporting
  • Narrow sustainability reporting boundaries ‘can amount to greenwashing’
  • Workforce disclosures ‘are not providing the data investors want’
  • FRC governance report calls for ‘greater focus’ on culture and strategy
  • ISS governance rating downgrade ‘can hit share performance’
  • FTSE 100 CEOs ‘earn average worker’s annual salary in three days’
  • Key trends in corporate governance for 2020
  • 2019: The year in governance
  • BlackRock challenged to provide details of stakeholder pledge
  • European agreement on sustainable business taxonomy divides opinion
  • Audit committees ‘need a makeover’ to help fix audit
  • British Academy issues principles to ‘put purpose at the heart of business’
  • MSCI goes public with ESG ratings for 2,800 companies
  • Conservatives focus on executive pay and audit reform
  • US audit committees ‘could do better’ on disclosures
  • Labour announces plans for UK corporate governance reforms
  • The campaign for dual-class listings in London
  • ISS policy change puts nomcos under pressure to boost gender diversity
  • Auditors struggling to challenge management, says FRC
  • Boards gear up for section 172 disclosures
  • Thomas Cook review urges action on audit reform and bonus clawbacks
  • Sustainable investment set to grow as investors focus on climate
  • New UK stewardship code puts focus on investor engagement
  • UN treaty renews focus on the role of business in human rights
  • Think tank calls for governance reform to encourage progress on employee pay
  • Better data and consolidated standards needed to drive ESG investing
  • Mark Carney predicts more action on climate-related risk disclosures
  • Active investors bring about better governance, academics confirm
  • Almost half of top investors have gone public with their ESG strategy
  • FRC citizens’ juries reveal public views on corporate governance
  • Brexit and ESG to top the agenda at the Global Invest Forum
  • Major asset owners pledge to decarbonise portfolios by 2050
  • Facebook creates oversight board to judge complaints about content
  • Board independence revealed as key issue for investors in 2020
  • UK directors’ duties ‘include ESG responsibilities’ says legal expert
  • Governance on the political agenda as general election looms
  • US boards increase engagement with investors’ ESG concerns
  • Institutional investors ‘should confront failing chairs’ to fight private equity deals
  • Shareholders ‘don’t understand executive remuneration policies’
  • US business leaders pledge to ‘redefine corporate purpose’
  • FTSE 100 CEO pay falls as investors retain focus on remuneration policy
  • Hampton-Alexander CEO warns of ‘challenge to shift attitudes’ on gender diversity
  • Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek opts to receive nominal $1 salary
  • Workforce Disclosure Initiative puts pressure on big names
  • ‘Single all-encompassing framework’ needed for sustainability reporting
  • Climate reporting: TCFD urges companies to disclose data
  • CDP criticises top companies over environmental disclosures
  • NGO governance: finding solutions to future challenges
  • Cultivating trust in business: Guy Singh-Watson, Riverford
  • New drive to integrate UN SDGs into corporate reporting
  • Asset manager urges separation of chair and CEO roles
  • Shareholders call for greater transparency on dividend policies
  • FRC reveals increased budget as it prepares for transition
  • Organisational models: why teal is the new colour of business
  • Governance and executive pay at heart of IFS Deaton inequalities review
  • European companies embrace climate governance
  • Designated non-executives set to represent workforce views
  • The outlook for governance in 2019
  • Theresa May’s worker representation proposal fails to gain support
  • The gendered corporation
  • US corporates open up on political donations
  • How should a board manage a maverick CEO?
  • New guidance pulls non-execs into ‘going concern’ debate
  • Think tank recommends culture and people role for remcos
  • How information overload can threaten board effectiveness
  • A new culture of compliance in a complex environment
  • EU non-financial reporting: Good start, could do much better
  • New stewardship code shifts emphasis to disclosures and ‘outcomes’
  • Survey reveals boards struggle with sustainability
  • High hopes for Wates’ private companies governance code
  • Could Japan’s governance be improving?
  • Is it time to apply governance rules to the AIM stock exchange?
  • The governance revolution: time to take control
  • How do you solve a problem like audit?
  • Steps to strengthen boardroom culture, reputation and risk
  • Audit reform: which way now?
  • Overboarding is a growing concern
  • A new act in the performance of capitalism
  • Governance shaped by climate, tech and demographics
  • New world order for global banking
  • Compliance failures and diversity doubts
  • Audit woes and reform wrangles
  • Tale of Tesla’s Elon Musk is a ‘sadly familiar story’
  • Understanding the true costs of compliance and non-compliance
  • US chief executive pay surges 17.6%
  • PwC heavily criticised for ‘failed’ audit of BHS
  • Chief executive pay up 11%, despite rising opposition
  • Investors tougher on pay in latest voting season
  • ICGN reveals stewardship awards nominees
  • IoD calls for independent commission to take governance from FRC
  • Governance chief defends Australian code process
  • Stewardshop code adopted by vast South Korean pension fund
  • Investor urges boards to embrace worker representation set out by new code
  • Flexibility on offer for chairman terms in new governance code
  • Competition regulator asks Big Four to look for ways to change audit market
  • Institutional investors’ group publishes Dutch stewardship code
  • Zuckerberg under fire over Facebook governance
  • KPMG under further scrutiny over audit of booze business
  • KPMG chief concedes that public trust in audit is waning
  • French business groups adopt revised governance code
  • Watchdog spotlights KPMG for ‘deterioration’ in audit quality
  • Executives warned of action using senior managers regime
  • Corporate governance principles for private companies published
  • KPMG fined over audit work at Quindell
  • Japan’s wave of governance reform is welcomed, and isn’t over yet
  • UK listings rules for sovereign companies to change
  • Shareholder body advises against reappointment of Coca-Cola HBC chair
  • Commonwealth Bank faces record fine over money laundering failings
  • More powers for FRC receives scant support from company secretaries
  • Remcos must be reformed to reign in executive pay
  • FTSE 350 bosses give ‘pitiful’ excuses for failing to hit gender targets
  • Activist attacks accounting and governance at Samsonite
  • Buyback mountain: why the rise in share buybacks is causing concern
  • Remuneration tightrope: what is the future of exec pay?
  • MPs call on competition regulator to review audit market post-Carillion
  • Standard Life’s Gilbert counts the days to non-executive resignation
  • QCA updates smaller quoted companies’ governance code
  • Asset manager Hermes calls for external review of culture at Volkswagen
  • Listed Companies Conference: The new governance landscape for PLCs – London, April 2018
  • Zuckerberg must quit Facebook, says New York pension fund official
  • Watchdog to review Aviva’s plan to cancel preference shares
  • Gove told financial regulators should get tough on climate risk reporting
  • Code for private companies will leave out executive pay
  • ‘Monocultures’ in financial firms lead to governance issues, says regulator
  • UK directors and shareholders face tougher post-insolvency regulation
  • Paradigm shift: Jane Diplock, IIRC
  • The promises and limitations of institutional investors
  • Carillion collapse reveals gaps in supply chain accounting
  • Belgian business groups publish guide on non-financial reporting law
  • Time for a governance rethink: enforced compliance or not?
  • Investors: revised code ‘too narrowly’ focused on workforce engagement
  • Norway’s sovereign fund rejects broader role for remuneration committees
  • Carillion chairman ‘lacked even a tenuous grasp’ on its position
  • IoD seeks greater role for remcos over share buybacks
  • Dutch plan to counter ‘tax haven’ reputation
  • Which direction for corporate governance?
  • ‘Fundamental governance failings’ in RBS unit saw SMEs ‘poorly treated’
  • Could a revised governance code offer broader scope?
  • William Hill pays £6.2m settlement for ‘systemic senior management failure’
  • A very strategic engagement: stakeholders and long-term value
  • Evolving a corporate governance code that is fit for purpose
  • Investors to focus on boardroom skills and experience in 2018
  • Redrow chairman slams mega-payout for Persimmon CEO
  • Ex-Carillion chairman takes ‘full responsibility’ as directors grilled
  • Dutch corporate governance committee calls for more shareholder activism
  • James Wates to chair private company governance group
  • Watchdog to probe KPMG over its audit of Carillion
  • Why gender diversity pays
  • MPs to investigate Carillion auditors and board over ‘disaster in the making’
  • Larry Fink: companies must make a ‘positive contribution’ to society
  • Half of large corporates have unreported compliance breaches
  • Carillion directors face probe after company goes into liquidation
  • Pearson tops list of shareholder revolts on remuneration
  • Exxon bows to shareholder demands and agrees climate change report
  • ‘Communication gap’ found between audit committee chairs and auditors
  • One-fifth of FTSE 100 chairs could be affected by nine-year tenure rule
  • French investors tackle reporting on ESG with Article 173
  • Dutch shareholders oppose inclusion of governance in accountants’ role
  • Revised UK Corporate Governance Code meets with broad welcome
  • UK’s new governance code targets corporate culture, wider society and pay
  • Remuneration committees’ remit broadened under revised UK Code
  • FRC: We should have moved more quickly on KPMG/HBOS audit inquiry
  • Big Four accounting firms face £10m in fines for faulty audits
  • Watchdog to review reporting of Brexit risks
  • Investors head for showdown with LSE board over CEO’s departure
  • SEC approves enhanced auditor reporting and communication
  • Firms fail to digitise bulky annual reports
  • Advancing to a state of readiness: the new Shareholder Rights Directive
  • Improve detail in corporate reporting, says watchdog
  • FTSE350 governance compliance rises, while stakeholder engagement low
  • MPs slam RBS chief for ‘extraordinary outburst’ against business owners
  • Diageo tops rankings in IoD’s good governance report
  • Advisors turn against James Murdoch as Sky chairman
  • Investigation into PwC’s client asset reporting at Barclays closes
  • Reputation for the long term requires a change of attitude
  • Uber board agrees governance reforms and Japanese investment
  • Governance reform proposals ‘took the easy line’, says City grandee
  • PM criticises Uber decision while lauding UK’s governance record
  • Telit’s governance tidy-up includes financial review and cost-cutting
  • European banking authorities urge greater diversity among managers
  • New guidelines launched for stakeholder engagement
  • Uber loses licence over ‘lack of corporate responsibility’
  • Takeover Panel moves to protect British-based R&D with tougher rules
  • Dutch directors’ association calls for trust-based governance
  • Audit firm KPMG cleared over HBOS audit after 2007 financial crisis
  • Long-term value at heart of revised Dutch governance code 
  • Corporate culture a ‘standing item’ for boards across the globe.
  • King IV on corporate governance: a product of African soil
  • Corporate governance and the proactive board
  • Malaysia to disclose companies lacking female board members
  • Hong Kong firms see improvement in corporate governance
  • Recommendations to rethink UK corporate governance
  • China’s Communist Party occupies central governance role
  • Improve executive behaviour with better board education
  • UK government waters down plans to strengthen corporate governance
  • Publishing pay ratios is ‘crude’, but are a ‘step in the right direction’
  • Governance reform expands reporting obligation of large UK firms
  • Specialist pay consultants and their relationship with the Remco
  • Governance on the agenda for newly formed Standard Life Aberdeen
  • Easing rules for sovereign-controlled listings ‘detrimental’ to governance
  • S&P bars companies from indices over voting rights concern
  • IIRC marks advances in integrated reporting, but ‘work to be done’ in US
  • Let’s keep ‘comply-or-explain’ in corporate governance burning bright
  • Corporate governance ‘best way to achieve better work’
  • Burberry faces remuneration opposition from shareholders
  • Boards ‘weighed down’ by governance reform, report warns
  • Disquiet after governance reform fails to appear in Queen’s Speech
  • No corporate governance reform ‘talk’ in Brexit-focused Queen’s Speech
  • SFO brings fraud charges against Barclays and former executives
  • Audit quality improves among FTSE350, says watchdog
  • Greg Clark reappointed business secretary
  • Shareholder body advises vote against Tesco chairman
  • Corporate Governance and Reporting Event – London, June 2017
  • Japan’s investors prepare to report on voting practices
  • French regulator receives complaints over governance at Renault-Nissan
  • New committee to review Indian governance
  • Hong Kong stock exchange explores new share structures
  • Australia’s sovereign fund votes against key appointments
  • Philanthropist challenges BlackRock over executive pay voting
  • Courtroom clash between AkzoNobel and shareholders set for today
  • Football Association reserves boardroom seats for women
  • Tories commit to greater employee involvement in governance
  • AkzoNobel accused of ‘hoax’ governance policy by major shareholder
  • Review of UK code will focus on section 172 duties
  • IoD calls for shareholders to have second vote on pay
  • Directors’ body says CEOs should “speak up” on societal issues
  • RBS faces concern over diversity and pay ahead of AGM
  • Corporate governance becomes an election campaign issue
  • Integrated implementation: Tim Haywood
  • US boards prepare for contact with activist shareholders
  • Environmental concerns dominate US shareholder proposals
  • Systemic risk and corporate governance to lead Cass event
  • Culture involves everyone, but begins with the board
  • Transparency should be at the heart of executive pay reform
  • LGIM toughens stance on climate change, diversity and pay ratios
  • European Central Bank urged to beef up governance
  • Diversity now means more than gender
  • Governance has biggest impact on corporate reputation than ever before
  • Executive pay: time to revolutionise a faulty system
  • India to reform stewardship code
  • Sky takeover investigation may focus on governance
  • Hong Kong beefs up anti-money laundering and corporate disclosure laws
  • China to enhance anti-corruption legislation
  • IIRC seeks global feedback on integrated reporting
  • Singapore: Code of Corporate Governance to be reviewed
  • Draft EU tax directive on ‘hybrid mismatches’ agreed
  • Gender pay gap regulation looms for large UK companies
  • Financial regulator seeks to review UK capital markets
  • Revised German Corporate Governance Code urges ‘ethical behaviour’
  • UK governance needs radical overhaul to make business ‘purposeful’
  • Should chairmen become CEO within the same company?
  • Legal and regulatory roundup
  • Inadequate supplier monitoring puts large firms at risk
  • FRC seeks extended corporate governance powers
  • New reporting rules on payment practices for large firms
  • Unions and business groups unite to call for strengthened governance
  • May: governance reform at heart of UK effort to remain ‘global’
  • New gender quotas come into force for large French companies
  • Governance leaders to produce guidance on UK board decision-making
  • 2017: Key issues in the year ahead
  • Workers on boards
  • 2016: the governance year in review
  • Corporate commitment to ESG principles will survive Trump
  • Fox-Sky deal to face governance demands
  • Multi-capital reporting could rebuild public trust in business
  • Interview: Michelle Edkins, Blackrock
  • Dutch revise governance with long-term value creation at its heart
  • Bars to geo-blocking mooted
  • Remuneration guidance published
  • Changes to money laundering directive proposed
  • A question of cultural reform
  • Watchdog tells MPs it needs more powers
  • Values and governance integral to business success, says FRC
  • Measuring governance: why corporate culture needs a health check
  • Executives believe companies must think ‘beyond profit’
  • FRC welcomes Hampton/Alexander report
  • Slow start for Modern Slavery Act
  • The Five Governance Questions Issuers and Investors Need to Ask
  • Watchdog backs PM’s drive for governance reform
  • The murky politics of boardroom pay
  • Sports Direct switches governance review away from legal advisers
  • Governance chief calls for ‘increased focus’ on UK corporate culture
  • Tesco comes bottom of governance index
  • Sports Direct commissions governance report
  • ICSA questions strengthening of shareholder rights
  • IoD prepares code for private companies
  • Investment managers publish new governance principles
  • Reported: views on Theresa May’s governance proposals
  • May reveals radical reform of governance
  • FIFA’s own goal
  • Audit Insights: Cyber Security – Closing the Cyber Gap
  • Taxing reports
  • Family affair
  • It’s all in the emphasis
  • A long way to go
  • Swiss court backs sale of Sika stake to Saint-Gobain
  • Female non-executives increase at FTSE 350 companies
  • FRC responds to governance recommendations
  • Insights from the ICGN conference 2015
  • Independence is secure but pay is too low
• Category: Headhunter Profiles
• Category: Insights
  • Listen up—and get a feel for future risk
  • 4 strategies for digital success
  • Corporate-startup partnering can be a force for good
  • How boards can build an effective ransomware response plan
  • How ‘risk blindness’ threatens the effectiveness of board decisions
  • Post-pandemic, firms need chief social connectivity officers
  • The war for talent: creating competitive advantage through diversity
  • Home front: how digitalisation is moving cybersecurity boundaries
  • Webinar: what’s next for boards in financial services?
  • Identity crisis: the threat of malicious credential abuse
  • The relationships that create successful acquisitions
  • CEOs who play to type win the market
  • Two CEOs, no drama: ground rules for co-leadership
  • Building better boards: why firms must accelerate diversity in leadership
  • Implementing strategic change at a time of uncertainty
  • Why businesses should optimise supply chains for resilience, not just cost
  • Covid-19 is forcing us to rethink responsible approaches to business
  • Risk management lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
  • Will your next annual report come with installation instructions?
  • What boards need to know about business transformation
  • How boards can steer companies to ‘build back better’
  • Big boss is watching: the pros and cons of employee surveillance
  • How should corporate leaders navigate a political crisis?
  • How technology threatens mental health—especially if you’re inauthentic
  • Cyber-accountability for C-suite and boards
  • Hybrid working requires new technology and HR strategies
  • Creativity in a crisis: finding a route to recovery through innovation
  • D&O litigation on the rise amid host of emerging risks
  • How to prevent your employees’ mistakes compromising cybersecurity
  • Pandemic or no, it’s business as usual for boards
  • The state of AI-driven digital transformation
  • How to make the most of a chief sustainability officer
  • How Covid-19 raises the digital stakes even higher
  • In the current crisis, less hierarchical companies show special resilience
  • Centre stage vs. backstage: the two faces of leadership
  • Five ways racism is bad for business—and what we can do about it
  • Computer says no: the risks of AI in the post-pandemic digital workplace
  • Lessons from CEOs: leading through the Covid-19 crisis and beyond
  • Leading in a crisis: Covid-era CEOs are ‘keen, tough or edgy’
  • CEO activism: should leaders speak up about social causes?
  • Governance after the pandemic requires a stewardship approach
  • Digital disruption: how will Covid-19 affect the future of work?
  • Measuring stakeholder capitalism: ESG, metrics and the board’s role
  • Black Lives Matter: US corporates speak out
  • Internal investigations are on the rise—but are they robust enough?
  • Ardern and Cuomo lead the way on crisis communications
  • Stakeholder accountability at risk from the Covid-19 crisis
  • Covid-19 has taken remote working mainstream. What next?
  • CEOs say these 4 factors will shape business in 2020
  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI and quantum computing
  • Want to do business in Germany? Make sure you know the rules
  • Setting the pace: how to ensure your board is fit for the future
  • Outsourcing: the risks and rewards of a multi-faceted tool
  • Risk hotspots: a global roundup
  • Country profile: Canada
  • Taking control of cyber risk
  • Why integrating ESG is the key to sustainable business
  • Strategic decision-making in a fast-changing world
  • How the revised shareholder directive will help overcome short-termism
  • Country profile: Sweden
  • Get ahead of ESG risk and reap the rewards
  • Books every board should have on its shelf this autumn
  • Why Blockchain is good news for governance
  • The governance of cybersecurity
  • Ten most common mistakes boards make about risk management
  • ‘Uncharted territory’ for directors as hard line set for pension regulation
  • Lead or be led: Why digital transformation starts at the top
  • Risk hotspots – a global roundup
  • The technologies senior leaders plan to deploy in the coming years
  • The cultural attributes of the most innovative companies
  • Why there is a case for live video streaming of boardroom meetings
  • Cybersecurity is a key corporate governance concern
  • Why boards should be clear about long-term value
  • A road map for protection against cybercrime security
  • How boards foster a strong culture
  • Stronger together: the wider benefits of women on boards
  • Risk hotspots: a global roundup
  • Activist investors: the corporate world’s new fixture
  • Sustainable business begins with digital boardrooms
  • How good board communication can mitigate risk
  • Ten simple ways boards can manage their risks better
  • Risk management: prevention is better than cure
  • There’s no merit in untapped female talent for board roles
  • Sustaining momentum: Daniel Schmid, SAP
  • Well connected: David Nussbaum, Drax
  • Too many ESG measures lead to reporting fatigue
  • Business data: why it now falls under the competition regulators’ spotlight
  • A leading role for the future: Robert Swannell, M&S
  • The barriers to getting more women on boards can be overcome
  • How technology could transform board evaluations
  • Why directors should learn to love cybersecurity
  • M&A post-crisis: the changing role of the NED
  • Crisis management: the key to a sound corporate reputation
  • Overcoming difference as Chinese investment in Europe grows
  • Uncovering and understanding the hidden value of intangible assets
  • Enduring institutions prosper through serving society
  • Risk hotspots: a global roundup
  • Managing reputation risk in the boardroom
  • Does gender diversity affect a company’s risk management?
  • Risk: Why boards need a collective mindset
  • Digital transformation: how boards can weather the storm
  • Mittelstand companies: secrets behind their success
  • Europe’s new experiment: a year into EU audit reform
  • Technological change: what’s your attitude to risk?
  • Under-pressure company secretaries need relief from admin burden
  • Is business becoming criminalised?
  • Titanic lessons to be learned about climate change
  • Organisational politics can be an asset to strategy execution
  • Five challenges that could derail a succession plan
  • How to spot the narcissist in the boardroom
  • How robotics can bring UK manufacturing up to speed
  • Blockchain: the technology of choice for decentralised, secure transactions
  • Why every business needs a digital strategy
  • Flexibility is key for the digital boardroom
  • Boardrooms should heed new frontiers in personal data security
  • Technology key to secure boardroom communication
  • Why culture matters with digital start-up collaboration
  • Three ways to get ahead of the digital competition
  • Hostile intent
  • Why the whole board needs to be on top of risk management
  • Digital tools and integrated reporting
  • Cyber threats: how the board can prepare & mitigate risk
  • Cyber: the nuclear option
  • Artificial intelligence revolution
  • The need to nurture business culture is here to stay
  • Corporate borrowers should be braced for refinancing headwinds
  • Corporate bosses could soon take the rap for staff criminality
  • Tech world governance
  • Crime in the making
  • Create value, support growth
  • Investor support
  • The true cost of cyber breaches
  • Executive pay should focus on more than cost
  • Serious action required
  • Anticipation failures
  • Long-term perspectives
  • Organisational resilience
  • Opportunity knocks
  • New horizons
  • Leapfrogging
  • Measure by measure
  • Acquisition trail
  • Digital menace
  • Binge buying
  • New beginnings
  • Moving beyond gender
  • Hunger tamed
  • Three things that matter
  • A must-have, not a nice-to-have
  • Starting out
  • So you want to chair an audit committee?
  • Coping without a CEO
  • Brain bias: Think before your next appointment
  • The trust gap and diversity
  • It’s not about the price tag
  • Crime fighters
  • Shareholder rights and remuneration
  • Coded explanations
  • All sorts of choices when it comes to audit
  • Shifting attitudes to risk
  • Integration is the key
• Category: Interviews
  • Climate issues likely to figure prominently at next year’s AGMs
  • Sir Donald Brydon on audit reform, career NEDs and board relationships
  • Audit reform 2021: implications for board oversight of risk management
  • Ethics chief Patricia Harned: ‘Retaliation has a silencing effect on culture’
  • Aptiv CEO Kevin Clark on the effective integration of corporate purpose
  • Former CEO of Guardian Life Insurance Company of America on closing the skills gap
  • Innovation in a crisis: how to seize opportunities for growth
  • Tesco’s John Allan on the role of non-executives at a time of crisis
  • Profile: Amanda Blanc, CEO of Aviva, brings a policy of change
  • Profile: Jane Fraser, new Citigroup CEO, breaks the Wall Street barrier
  • Sasja Beslik: global finance industry ‘is the key to a sustainable future’
  • PRI policy chief warns that capital markets ‘remain unsustainable’
  • Fit for growth: Steve Hewitt, Gymshark
  • Stewardship vanguard: Hans-Christoph Hirt, Hermes EOS
  • An asset to responsible investment: Michael Herskovich, BNP Paribas
  • Culture at heart: Steven Baert, Novartis
  • View from the chair: Philip Aiken—Balfour Beatty & Aveva
  • Core strengths: Katharina Latif, Allianz
  • Engaging with happiness: Mark Price
  • Capitalising on the corporation: Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild
  • Digital optimist: Antony Jenkins
  • A fair gamble: Alex Gersh
  • View from the chair: Vanda Murray
  • Integrated reporting: leaders see strong potential for growth
  • View from the chair: Sir John Parker
  • Trust builds the future
  • Reporting revolution
  • Evolution not revolution
  • Stewardship, non-financial reporting and engagement
  • Taking the initiative
  • Governance revisited
  • Non-executive overload
• Category: Investor Relations
• Category: News
  • News round-up: this week in governance
  • Embrace data analytics to boost risk assessment, advises CIIA
  • Diversity business case arguments may deter job candidates
  • Queen’s Speech fails to provide clarity on audit reform plans
  • Companies urged to improve modern slavery reporting
  • Parker Review: 89 of FTSE 100 hit ‘one-by-21’ target
  • CEOs under fire: the psychology of leaders in a warzone
  • MHP chair offers a case study in crisis leadership in Ukraine
  • ‘The most important topic we discuss is the safety of our people’
  • UK and EU regulation differences deepen complexity of sanctions
  • Experts urge vigilance on cybersecurity amid Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia sanctions: check your contracts now, experts warn
  • D&O insurance price rises ease after years of turbulence
  • ‘Cultural proximity’ can aid audits, but may threaten innovation
  • Top stories of 2021: purpose and transformation amid the pandemic
  • EuropeanIssuers calls for EU law to apply to ‘third country’ companies
  • Institute of Directors rejects Boris Johnson’s comments on home working
  • FBI warns ransomware gangs are targeting M&A transactions
  • ‘Not enough being done’ to link diversity and climate goals
  • UK dividends up 89% on Q3 2020 as economy reopens
  • FRC chief’s comments spark debate over audit market cap
  • Campaigners urge FRC to name and shame failing audits
  • In-house lawyers concerned about legal implications of ESG disclosures
  • All-rounder CEOs ‘outperform those with specific industry knowledge’
  • Business Roundtable stakeholder statement ‘mostly for show’, says study
  • Research reveals benefits of having a female chief financial officer
  • Smaller boards are more likely to choose generalist chief executives
  • Companies with CEOs that focus on culture ‘have higher growth rate’
  • How to boost diversity in your company’s leadership team
  • Finance chiefs fear audit reforms will cause increase in costs
  • Shell ‘say on climate’ vote set to fuel further campaigns
  • How government proposals aim to rebuild faith in UK audit and auditors
  • Business bodies speak out against proposed EU stakeholder law
  • Change in audit committee chairs ‘sees audit fees rise and quality fall’
  • Experts highlight cybersecurity risk amid the pandemic
  • Parker Review urges final push to meet FTSE 100 ‘one by 2021’ target
  • How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected board strategy?
  • FRC: many firms ‘not transparent about their compliance with UK code’
  • Deanna Mulligan: how smart companies can close the skills gap
  • WEF launches coalition to ‘put racial equality on the board agenda’
  • Firms forge ahead with AI adoption despite a lack of skills on boards
  • Top stories of 2020: climate, coronavirus and stakeholder capitalism
  • Covid and liquidity boost ‘mega’ M&A deals
  • IIRC: Covid-19 crisis ‘has underscored the relevance of sustainability’
  • Collapse of Victoria’s Secret deal reveals weakness in M&A contracts
  • UK companies ‘need to go further’ on LGBTQ+ inclusion
  • UK seeks powers to block foreign investment on national security grounds
  • Sustainability in spotlight at IIRC Global Conference
  • Legal CSR measures are ‘fraught with conceptual contradictions’
  • Harvard experts slam EU report on long-term strategic thinking
  • FRC proposes ‘public interest report’ to highlight stakeholder issues
  • ICAEW report reveals a quarter of non-PIE audits require improvement
  • CFO taskforce reveals plan to boost UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Narcissistic leaders are perceived negatively by their employees
  • AI survey: how is your business integrating artificial intelligence?
  • EU urges firms to focus on long-term strategy over short-term goals
  • US companies lead UK and Europe on speed of CEO turnover
  • Covid-19: FRC urges companies to provide ‘more extensive disclosures’
  • Risk report reveals pandemic forced companies to review strategy
  • FRC scrutiny of audit quality reveals “unacceptable” level of issues
  • FRC urges ‘clear and timely’ disclosures on company prospects
  • Business Roundtable members ‘should become benefit corporations’
  • Take part in our Covid-19 Risk Survey
  • Business ‘will fundamentally change’ as result of Covid-19 crisis
  • M&A activity predicted to increase post-Covid-19 crisis
  • Leadership in risk: share your experiences
  • EcoDa warns that sustainability standardisation ‘promotes box-ticking’
  • Investment Association calls for better climate risk reporting
  • Covid-19: UK business institutions and advisers set out likely impact
  • Mergers under scrutiny as competition regulator toughens stance
  • UK government set to implement mandatory TCFD reporting
  • US regulator orders tech giants to release data on acquisitions
  • Investor focus on results and remuneration ‘creating friction’ with boards
  • UK government could introduce shared audits for large companies
  • BlackRock CEO letter issues warning on sustainability disclosures
  • Hong Kong companies ‘failing to integrate ESG’ into policies and planning
  • Brydon review: ‘true and fair’ must go while fraud becomes auditor responsibility
  • FRC is ‘working on a UK version of Sarbanes–Oxley’
  • FTSE 100 boards fail to improve BAME representation
  • Top chairs see remuneration rise by 30% over past decade
  • ISS launches lawsuit against the SEC over proxy adviser guidelines
  • Big Four accountancy firms see decline in combined audit income growth
  • Investors believe companies are ‘falling short’ on climate reporting
  • Sir John Kingman warns government over unfinished FRC reforms
  • Net effects of mandatory CSR reporting ‘difficult to assess’
  • PRI report reveals global shift to national sustainable finance policies
  • Indian regulators work on new rules to halt auditor exodus
  • Auditor resignations indicate new attitude to client selection
  • Controversy in Hong Kong over mandatory ESG reporting
  • Sustainable funds prosper as strategic shift gathers pace
  • Financial services CEOs ‘lack technology expertise’
  • Fines almost triple as regulators get tough with auditors
  • GDPR: data protection rules seen as ‘burdensome’ one year on
  • ‘Practical actions needed’ to improve board diversity
  • Ransomware warning as cybercriminals target large companies
  • FRC calls for better reporting of climate-related risks
  • Greece tops list of most complex international jurisdictions
  • CEO turnover falls as firms seek ‘continuity and consistency’
  • Climate change ‘is biggest risk factor for businesses’ say CEOs
  • New approach aims to improve transparency of ESG information
  • Mazars wins Goldman Sachs audit deal amid debate on market reform
  • Practical steps needed to boost gender diversity on US boards
  • Why mental health is a board-level issue
  • Risk management ‘is about opportunities, not just threats’
  • Investors fail to challenge CEO pay
  • Lack of turnover slows progress for women on US boards
  • Audit committees: increased scrutiny is the only certainty
  • Audit committees face public reprimand as part of market reforms
  • Trend for portfolio reviews drives M&A optimism
  • Shareholders focus attention on diversity and climate
  • What impact investments mean for boards
  • More work needed on workforce disclosures
  • MPs call on regulator to get tough on executive pay

  • Government to push ahead with new audit and governance watchdog
  • Share buybacks prompt promise of fresh US legislation
  • Ghosn scandal poses big questions for strategic alliances
  • Citi’s information-sharing deal unlikely to spread
  • Brexit, cybersecurity and climate change lead risk concerns for 2019
  • Audit committees braced for new relationship with regulators
  • UK to replace governance watchdog with new regulator
  • Debate heats up over sustainability reporting
  • Ted Baker: ‘Hugging’ and making employees heard
  • ‘Repeat offenders’ warned to heed shareholder revolts
  • Limits to shareholder voting rights mooted by investors
  • Executive pay storms back onto corporate agenda
  • Managing mental health among executive high-fliers
  • Success for women in the boardroom, but not necessarily as chair or CEO
  • Battle for the future of proxy advisers
  • The gender pay gap is closing – but the UK is behind
  • Germany launches new governance code
  • Corporate reporting approaches a new start
  • Norges Bank declares opposition to combined CEO-chairs
  • Why marrying societal impact with financial strategy takes time
  • Boards increase their efforts on cybersecurity
  • Regulators make climate demands of financial services
  • Companies set to swerve option of workers on boards
  • Global warming: business on the front line
  • Data ethics: defining the governance of artificial intelligence
  • Employee ownership: a help or hindrance to UK business?
  • When an IT failure should mean ‘goodbye’ for a CEO
  • Quarterly reporting: Useful or an obstacle to jobs?
  • ‘Internal’ or ‘external’ for the best CEOs?
  • Shareholder revolts against remuneration reports rise
  • Blockchain projects in wide-scale development
  • KPMG conflict of interest with Ted Baker results in £3m FRC fine
  • European Commission edges closer to ‘sustainability’ investment rules
  • Governance briefs from around Europe
  • Investors increasingly vote against remuneration reports
  • The investor activists are here to stay
  • Strategic report guidance amended to include ‘broader impact’
  • Survey to reveal sustainability thinking among boards
  • Shareholders reject Royal Mail’s remuneration report
  • Shareholder proposals gain ‘traction’ during US proxy season
  • Australian CEO pay scales new heights
  • Board chairs offered extension on nine-year terms in new code
  • UK companies warned: time running out for Brexit preparations
  • Big Four accountants accused of EU tax policy ‘conflict’
  • Growth in ranks of activist investors reported for H1 2018
  • Regulators demand IT security plans from financial services firms
  • Dividends looking more ‘sustainable’, for now
  • Female directors boost company performance, says research
  • Boardroom pay rising in the US, according to survey
  • PwC to pay $625.3m damages over collapsed US bank
  • UK plc hits record debt levels
  • SEC accused of ‘discouraging’ executive whistleblowers
  • Deloitte investigated over SIG audit
  • Air France-KLM mulls split of CEO role
  • Outgoing Carrefour chief gives up €4m of retirement package
  • EU agrees measures to stamp out VAT fraud
  • Uber to lean on governance changes in licence appeal
  • Lib Dem leader backs more action on executive pay
  • UK companies face increase in investor activism
  • Audit industry to face fresh “root and branch” review by UK government
  • Intel CEO resigns following breach of ‘fraternisation’ policy
  • ‘Grandfather’ financial services post-Brexit to protect 36m policyholders
  • Whitbread’s demerger pay plan under fire from investor advisors
  • France orders banks to keep extra capital buffer
  • Unilever likely to part company with FTSE 100 index
  • New UK CEO pay-ratio reporting laws announced
  • EU inches closer to banking governance reforms
  • Companies face new law demanding they justify pay gap
  • Female non-executive directors ‘expect less pay’ than males
  • Corporate and pension schemes must report climate change risk
  • Measures to protect stakeholders in insolvent firms proposed
  • Asset managers devise questions for “purpose-led” companies
  • Campaign for RBS shareholder committee takes another turn
  • Google CEO tops global reputation list
  • LGIM launches gender diversity fund to promote women on boards
  • Big Four auditors ‘prepared’ if regulators push for split
  • Many firms not ready for GDPR: but compliant organisations reap benefits
  • Investor representative pushes for vote against Shell remuneration
  • Brussels seeks amended law to facilitate cross-border moves
  • EC seeks to amend and standardise shareholder rights law
  • ‘Professional scepticism’ must be further embedded into audit firms’ culture
  • EC proposes better protection for whistleblowers
  • Amazon faces calls to separate CEO and chairman roles
  • EC proposes simplified cross-border mergers, moves or divisions
  • Aviva offers ‘goodwill payment’ to investors over preference shares
  • Weir Group’s pay reforms could be ‘model for other companies’
  • Persimmon AGM vote sees investors slam executive mega-payouts
  • London Stock Exchange told to tackle culture following CEO’s departure
  • FTSE 100 looks beyond UK for CEOs
  • Campaign demands more ‘sustainable’ companies for investors
  • Legal & General and investment group to ‘vote against’ non-diverse boards
  • ‘Root and branch’ review of FRC launched by government
  • Credit Suisse faces further ructions over boardroom pay
  • Norway’s oil fund backs closure of LTIPs at Weir
  • Former Afren chiefs disqualified as directors by Insolvency Service
  • Watchdog to step up monitoring of largest audit firms
  • Investors should push companies on cybersecurity, warns expert
  • Big Four auditors could face £10m fines under new sanctions
  • Sir Martin Sorrell investigated by WPP over alleged misconduct
  • Companies warned of court action over gender pay gap reporting
  • European Commission introduces tough tax laws for digital business
  • Financial Reporting Council to face ‘competency inquiry’ by government
  • Asset owners should ‘enforce’ ongoing investor engagement
  • Former FDs at Carillion face probe over financial statements
  • BlackRock reveals more details on its engagement priorities
  • Regulator seeks audit market probe into Big Four domination
  • HSBC reveals gender pay gap of 60% but pledges to improve diversity
  • Unilever opts for single Netherlands HQ and ‘one share one vote’
  • Goldman Sachs criticises Hong Kong’s dual class share limit
  • Hiscox reports an average gender pay gap of 31%
  • ING banking group scraps pay rise for CEO after public outcry
  • General Electric’s former CEO took big fall in pay prior to departure
  • Certainty on Brexit transition preferred over ambitious deal, say businesses
  • EU launches fintech action plan to support business
  • Top paid jobs dominated by men fourfold, HMRC reveals
  • CBI: Brexit deal must avoid ‘cliff edge’ for financial services
  • Behaviour of IoD chairwoman Lady Judge called into question
  • Remuneration issues under scrutiny after gender pay gap reports
  • Pension fund trustees could be forced to publish climate policy
  • Gender pay gap reports published by only a fraction of companies
  • Hong Kong Stock Exchange proposes allowing dual class shares
  • UK and US financial services authorities sign deal on fintech cooperation
  • Investors more concerned than CEOs about cybersecurity
  • Persimmon’s mega executive payouts curbed by 50%
  • Barclays International reveals its gender pay gap of 48%
  • Government considers intervention in Melrose bid for GKN
  • HSBC spends $28m preparing for Brexit
  • Belgium drafts revised corporate governance code
  • Investors ramp up pressure on BHP Billiton over dual listing
  • Integrated reporting the focus for ICGN-IIRC gathering
  • GPIF, Japan’s pension fund, to probe external fund manager’s pay
  • Heavy industry in EU faces steeper cuts to CO2 emissions
  • Financial and administrative burden on Belgian companies ‘too high’
  • Compliance: take it or leave it
  • Investors’ fiduciary duty should ‘require’ attention to climate change
  • European Commission urges businesses to prepare for data protection law
  • EU lawmakers back plans for greater CO2 cuts in key sectors
  • ICGN calls for inclusion of buy-backs in governance code
  • ISS advocates AGM vote abstention for ex-Carillion audit chair Andrew Dougal
  • Hong Kong set to create independent audit regulators
  • Public believes CEOs can improve UK’s fortunes as trust in media dips
  • PM reveals new sanctions for company leaders over pension deficits
  • SFO launches corruption inquiry into defence firm Chemring
  • Investor concern as GKN rebuffs Melrose’s hostile takeover bid
  • MPs ask if voluntary climate-risk reporting recommendations are enough
  • Persimmon CEO defends bumper bonus scheme
  • AA ‘astonished’ at former exec chairman’s wrongful dismissal claim
  • Fat Cat Thursday renews pressure over executive pay
  • Reputation of business improves since Brexit
  • Japanese companies face call for rapid improvement on ESG
  • European CEO pay ratios highest in UK, France and Germany
  • Non-executive directors’ average age breaks through 60
  • Regulator warns of ‘unlimited’ fines for failures over pay gap reports
  • London Stock Exchange chairman Donald Brydon likely to remain in post
  • Persimmon chairmen resign over executive pay cap omission
  • BlackRock to target diversity and climate change reporting in 2018
  • Boards must improve tech knowledge as “adaptation is critical” for future
  • Akzo’s merger talks with Axalta provoke shareholder fury
  • Shell reports gender pay gap of 22.2%
  • Shareholders to vote on future of London Stock Exchange chairman
  • Landmark ruling on holiday pay could prove costly for business
  • Investment consultants warned of climate change risks
  • Business needs a Brexit Christmas gift, says IoD
  • Investors seek more ‘comprehensive information’ on risks
  • Tenders may face investigation on intra-group collusion
  • Mitie’s financial reporting falls under further scrutiny
  • Governance in the Gulf still lags behind global peers, says S&P
  • Norway’s sovereign wealth fund to disinvest from oil and gas
  • LSE row prompts demand for CEO confidentiality waiver
  • Italy introduces law to protect whistleblowers
  • Proposals published on EU citizens’ rights post-Brexit
  • European Parliament adopts EU-wide whistleblowing recommendations
  • ESG low priority for more than half of Japanese companies, survey shows
  • ICGN Paris conference will focus on developments in Europe
  • FTSE 350 firms urged to increase gender diversity in leadership teams
  • Skills crisis threatens UK’s place in the industrial world, say CBI panellists
  • Investors turn the screws over toned-down executive pay awards
  • CBI seeks independent body for industrial strategy development
  • MSCI extends investigation of non-voting shares
  • Work to be done on ethnic diversity of banking and finance
  • Thousands of businesses in the dark about GDPR
  • Broaden evaluation of foreign investors’ intentions, urges EEF
  • French trend sees merger of CEO and chairman roles
  • FCA faces questions over sovereign-owned companies’ listing rule
  • Commission probes UK tax scheme for multinationals
  • Regulator seeks to hold international audit networks to account
  • Company Secretary Forum to differ from previous years
  • R&D spend ‘feels the effects’ of economic nationalism
  • AkzoNobel in further shareholder spat over board candidates
  • Danone combines CEO and chair roles in bid to boost governance
  • MPs spotlight diversity at Bank of England
  • Ex-Rio Tinto CEO and CFO charged with fraud over ‘inflated’ asset values
  • Ministers seek greater powers to block foreign takeovers
  • Auditor fined £1.8m for ‘misconduct’
  • Opposition to listing rule changes continues to build
  • New EBA guidance published on Brexit relocations
  • FTSE 100 boards given deadline for finding ethnic minority members
  • Debt and riskier punts push company takeover values close to European IPOs
  • Corporates must get to grips with new accounting standards, says FRC
  • GE chairman appoints activist investor representative onto board
  • ‘Modest’ improvement in gender equality at board level, finds OECD
  • Corporate tax evasion crimes added to Criminal Finances Act
  • Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild heads IIRC convention line-up
  • Annual reports swell in size and content improves, but work to be done
  • External CEO directorships affect shareholder returns, says research
  • Financial watchdog defends change to listing rules
  • Corporate culture and how to rebuild public trust
  • Boards fail to describe preferred culture to staff, survey shows
  • Interserve chief’s payoff elicits investor criticism following profit warning
  • Boards need ‘protection’ from short-term shareholders
  • Energy supplier SSE reveals growing gender pay gap
  • Brexit uncertainty affecting investment decisions, says Bank of England
  • European Commission unveils comprehensive industrial policy strategy
  • Germany: compliance management system can reduce fines, court rules
  • UK companies face higher risk of activist action
  • Regulator clashes with government over Sky takeover
  • Lobby group urges EU to strengthen single market and cut costs
  • EU merger ruling for new joint ventures ‘welcome’
  • Take part in the European corporate culture survey
  • Post-Brexit customs barriers could cost traders £4bn a year
  • Strategic thinking in the age of digital transformation
  • MPs seek assurance over reputation of UK governance
  • Hellawell narrowly retains Sports Direct chair after shareholder vote
  • French entrepreneur body calls for wider application of labour law reforms
  • Dutch company boards failing to meet female quotas
  • European commissioner to publish company law initiative in November
  • Former Tesco directors to stand trial for fraud and false accounting
  • FRC updates mission statement and website to improve transparency
  • Samsung heir jailed as South Korea clamps down on corruption
  • Amended Shareholder Rights Directive implemented
  • ‘Shareholder spring’ dents FTSE100 remuneration rise
  • Ethnic minority pipeline to FTSE100 boards rises; existing number falls
  • PwC hit by another £5m fine after admitting failures in RSM Tenon audit
  • More detail of long-term value created by UK companies proposed by FRC
  • Chinese firms need stronger governance to attract British investors
  • Singapore’s governance improves, but stakeholder engagement still poor
  • Malaysia’s corporates need to improve governance, says MICG president
  • Telit CEO Oozi Cats resigns over historic US fraud allegations
  • Unilever looks to improve governance with €450m preference share buyback
  • Ex-Tech Data finance director banned from accounting membership
  • Google employee fired over ‘gender differences’ email to staff
  • Unilever’s takeover rejection becomes a turning point
  • Dame Helen Alexander, former CBI president, dies
  • EU Damages Directive transposed into Belgian law
  • Investors improve reporting under Stewardship Code, says FRC
  • Watchdog launches probe of Mitie audits by Deloitte
  • Barclays CEO’s whistleblower hunt ‘completely inexcusable’
  • Audit improves but professional scepticism remains a concern
  • Seat at the Table event develops female executives
  • Global M&A deals holding firm, EY figures show
  • China reveals state-owned enterprise reform plan
  • AkzoNobel told new CEO Thierry Vanlancker’s position ‘untenable’
  • Advisors recommend vote against The Sims chairman
  • Poll shows Japanese boards hesitate to increase shareholder returns
  • Investors need carbon exposure stress-test, says think-tank
  • Halfords faces opposition to reappointment of auditor
  • Fiduciary duties must include ‘sustainability risk’, says EU group
  • World’s largest pension fund GPIF to allocate more to ESG
  • Burberry shareholders revolt against executive pay report
  • Malaysian boards urged to establish good governance incentive schemes
  • Chinese firms see corporate governance improvements, survey shows
  • Germany: New equal pay and maternity protection laws approved
  • Boards should be keeping banks to ‘spirit of regulation’, says regulator
  • Simplifications for Prospectus Regulation proposed
  • New guidelines for non-financial reporting aim to be ‘business-oriented’
  • Japan’s boards face criticism over former executives’ retirement perks
  • Revamped UK governance code will have a new focus on culture
  • New Zealand announces new anti-money laundering initiatives
  • Legal and Regulatory Roundup – Europe & Asia
  • Shareholder displeasure against S&P500 directors reaches high level
  • France: update to Sapin II Law aims to improve transparency
  • Investors seek more disclosures on global workforce management
  • Pay of US bank CEOs outstrips that of global peers
  • Global risk: hotspots from the UK, US, Italy, Europe and Qatar
  • Germany: New proceeds of crime law implemented
  • EU’s Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive in force
  • EU proposal aims to curb aggressive tax arrangements
  • Deadline looms for implementation of new EU financial directives
  • Philippines faces corporate governance ‘obstacles’
  • Research captures shift in purpose for global business
  • Malaysia releases new corporate governance code
  • Japan’s big corporates shift to provide AGM agendas online
  • Germany to bring into force remuneration transparency law
  • European survey to reveal how boards are shaping corporate culture
  • Details revealed of new French whistleblowing protections
  • Index firm reviews membership role of non-voting shares
  • EU companies to face new anti-money laundering obligations
  • Morrisons’ chairman clashes with shareholders over directors’ pay
  • Shareholder pressures WPP over CEO succession
  • Gender diversity best where companies are also led by women
  • Singapore sees rise of female board directors overall
  • Pension fund group to increase pressure over climate risks
  • ESMA sets out principles for Brexit among EU member states
  • Low-level support for CEOs becoming chairmen, poll suggests
  • Experts set to explore the evolution of governance
  • Business voice must be heard in Brexit negotiations
  • Labour targets executive pay and plans expanded duty of care
  • Labour planning corporate ‘levy’ for the highly paid
  • Just one in ten companies do leadership strategy well, says survey
  • CBI calls on election winner to address pay and employee engagement
  • Regulator to investigate KPMG’s audit of Rolls-Royce
  • Malta hosts EU corporate governance conference
  • Directors could be struck off for failing to protect pensions, says PM
  • ‘Misinvoicing’ accounts for majority of illicit financial flows in global trade
  • Urban Outfitters faces action over diversity criticism
  • Criminal Finances Bill receives Royal Assent
  • Barclays’ CEO risks shareholder backlash over whistleblowing scandal
  • AstraZeneca shareholders signal concerns over pay
  • Companies are at risk from failing to invest in compliance, research shows
  • Wells Fargo chairman survives vote with slim margin
  • Pay consultant argues LTIPs are ‘effective’, despite calls to end them
  • Grant Thornton fined £2.3m over audit of firefighting company
  • Exxon under pressure over climate change reporting
  • Adviser concern builds for executive pay at Persimmon
  • CEO pay is falling, says PwC study of annual reports
  • CEO of Next sees pay package fall
  • Legal & General to vote against all-male US boards
  • Wells Fargo directors a week away from critical vote
  • Risk hotspots — tremors from around the world
  • Directors could ‘improve’ contact with wider stakeholders
  • Rio Tinto faces shareholder opposition over boardroom diversity
  • Hermes to take action on boardroom pay and diversity
  • Barclays’ CEO reprimanded over whistleblower actions
  • Rolls-Royce: after the shocks and blows, can it get back on course?
  • Norwegian oil fund seeks the end of LTIPs
  • BP cuts chief executive’s pay package by 40%
  • Update to UK limited partnership law will allow for PFLPs
  • MPs propose major changes to UK governance code
  • Trudeau ‘not pleased’ with Bombardier’s executive pay proposal
  • Shareholder Rights Directive goes live
  • Banking guidelines ‘insufficient’ on leadership and strategy role of boards
  • Investors consider legal action over RBS shareholder committee rejection
  • Companies with all-male boards could lose investor votes
  • ISS cuts support for activist investors
  • France: large firms face new ‘duty of care’ on risk management
  • Legal & Regulatory Roundup – Europe
  • CBI calls for Brexit quick wins
  • Financial services firms battle to increase female applications
  • Tesco agrees £129m penalty over accounting scandal
  • Atos tops CAC 40 governance index
  • Sir James Dyson hits out at governance proposals
  • Less than a quarter of boardroom roles go to women
  • Crest Nicholson suffers shareholder revolt over pay
  • Nine in ten FTSE 100 CEOs paid more than 100 times living wage
  • Why audit committees worry about risk management systems
  • Google apologises to advertisers in move to protect reputation
  • Climate risk a key issue for 2017, says BlackRock
  • Global investor urges Unilever to stick with ‘sustainable’ business model
  • Intelligence chief calls on boardrooms to act on cybersecurity
  • M&S and BHP Billiton lead new human rights benchmark
  • Governance uncertainty prompted by Trump unlikely to end ESG demands
  • Employee representative ‘will do little’ to fix Sports Direct governance
  • ESG issues see Norwegian oil fund divest from 210 companies
  • Rio Tinto withholds bonus payments from former CEO
  • Reforms mooted for UK IPO process
  • Investment expert advocates salary-only model for executive pay
  • Singapore puts governance under review
  • Watchdog confirms call for new powers over company directors
  • Government told shareholder engagement ‘does not work’
  • FTSE 100 wealth manager to seek more focus on ESG investment
  • Executive pay best reformed with long-term equity
  • Remco chairmen should resign over shareholder revolts
  • FRC to launch ‘fundamental’ review of UK governance code
  • Watchdog to review audit firm governance and culture
  • Hermes targets infrastructure firms for big governance improvements
  • MPs say extend governance code to private companies
  • Shareholders seek softer measure over binding pay votes
  • One in ten consider end to long-term incentive plans
  • Thomas Cook suffers pay revolt by shareholders
  • IT leaders and board members split over responsibility for cybersecurity
  • Churches warn FTSE 350 of ‘unjustified’ pay policies
  • Investors reveal concern over audit tender exclusions
  • Lack of cybersecurity expertise on FTSE 100 boards ‘alarming’
  • Investors aim to head off government intervention on executive pay
  • Sports Direct debacle prompts desire to change listing rules
  • Twitter faces calls for user ownership
  • Uncertainty whether UK governance model is working
  • RBS rejects call for shareholder committee
  • US investors reveal deadline for new governance principles
  • US investors look to end dual-class shares
  • Britain needs a ‘reinvigorated’ equity culture
  • Audit committee chairs remain concerned by lack of audit choice
  • Ethics communication needs work
  • Board Agenda launches to inspire exemplary board performance
  • UK governance reform needs ‘patient’ capital
  • French Connection begins search for non-execs
  • BlackRock warns of scrutiny for tax holiday cash
  • Greencore faces executive pay opposition
  • Boardroom changes demanded at French Connection
  • Investor stewardship: society ‘demanding more’ of asset owners
  • Corporates receive call to heed UN sustainability goals
  • Rolls-Royce agrees £671m settlement over bribery claims
  • Blackrock warns FTSE 350 to link pay to performance
  • UK to beef up corporate crime law
  • Project launches to improve boardroom understanding of stakeholders
  • OECD: governance a weapon in the battle against inequality
  • Pension funds set for action against executive pay levels
  • Activists muster against Zodiac
  • Regulator criticises quality of non-compliance explanations
  • Corbyn’s national wage cap ‘lunatic’, says economist
  • Executive pay becomes a political issue in Germany
  • Sports Direct CEO welcomes support of hedge fund manager
  • VW executive charged with fraud
  • Survey finds ‘substantial work’ needed on risk management
  • Boards face ‘industrialisation’ of cyber-threat
  • New board evaluation advice for Indian companies
  • Hellawell survives at Sport Direct
  • Governance commission rejected
  • Sports Direct chairman faces fresh vote
  • High Pay Commission declares ‘Fat Cat Wednesday’
  • Barclays: A fork in the road
  • Catch-up: RBS, FTSE 350 pay, Tata, ESG under Trump
  • Value creation the missing link in integrated reporting
  • Top UK companies short of BAME directors
  • Task Force releases climate risk recommendations
  • Companies face ‘strategic uncertainty’ in 2017
  • Tax complexity is biggest compliance burden
  • Ethnic diversity in the boardroom falls
  • Legal & regulatory roundup – Europe
  • ICAEW calls for workers on boards
  • Confidence in UK business ethics falls
  • US bank splits chairman and CEO roles
  • Business bodies welcome government consultation on UK governance
  • Executive pay regulation to tighten
  • Mistry letter intensifies Tata feud
  • May dilutes pledge to get more workers on boards
  • FSB shines light on ‘poor payments culture’ of big UK business
  • Concern over Trump plan to gut NY anti-fraud law
  • French companies increase resource for ESR reporting
  • Tata Motors board evades Mistry feud by backing ‘management’
  • Fraud office decision on Barclays probe given March deadline
  • MPs begin hearings on UK governance
  • FRC holds fund managers to account under Stewardship Code
  • FTSE 350 compliance with Governance Code improving
  • Former BHS owner arrested amid tax investigation
  • Rio Tinto reports itself to fraud office
  • Tata calls meeting over Mistry dismissal
  • Australian investors angry over exec pay
  • VW chairman engulfed in diesel emissions probe
  • Government advances plans to get more women in senior management
  • Google faces new tax criticism
  • German pension reform to offer more certainty and flexibility to employers
  • Insolvencies could be prevented, says pensions adviser
  • Uber faced with £12m pensions bill
  • Fund managers warn over exec pay
  • Archbishop backs call for cultural change in financial regulators
  • Investor body calls for increased shareholder powers
  • Companies that report on value for stakeholders lauded
  • SEC reveals executive pay guidance
  • Hyundai executives face pay cuts
  • Japan’s stewardship code faces low level corporate support
  • Directors perceive boardroom expectations gap
  • UK criminal law should be extended to cover slavery
  • City figures back PM’s move to put workers in the boardroom
  • Companies fail to acknowledge bad news
  • Africa’s biggest economy publishes governance code
  • Caterpillar splits CEO and chairman roles
  • Portugal tops sustainability ranking
  • FTSE 100 falls short on reporting under Modern Slavery Act
  • Hermes asks FTSE 350 to curb pay packages
  • Benchmarking promotes ‘arms race’ in boardroom pay
  • Fund mangers called on to back gender policy
  • ISO publishes new anti-bribery tool
  • Annual reports expected to describe Brexit impact
  • James Murdoch suffers shareholder revolt
  • Brexit framing the work of governance regulator
  • PM: Too few women reach the top in financial services
  • Executive pay research shares Nobel prize
  • Tesla merger opportunity for governance reform
  • Caution urged over UK executive pay
  • Indian businesses under pressure over women on boards
  • L&G demands companies act on boardroom pay
  • Women bring under-represented skills to boards
  • Regulators seek to beef up emerging market governance
  • Australia tops Asia governance survey
  • GSK praised for appointing female CEO
  • Singapore governance ready for review
  • Investors accused of inconsistency over climate disclosure
  • Australia approaching target for women on boards
  • Wells Fargo chairman set to apologise to senators
  • MPs launch governance inquiry
  • Opening boardroom doors to employees
  • BHS fiasco prompts better private company governance
  • Hong Kong extends consultation over listings
  • Seoul to overhaul governance
  • Scope of ‘corporate failure’ law to expand
  • Finance bill includes country-by-country reporting
  • UK expects reform proposals in the autumn
  • Calls for shareholder committees to rule on executive pay
  • PwC pays £2.3m fine over Cattles audit
  • More boardroom women have tech experience
  • Shareholder vote removes Stada chairman
  • ISS: no ‘compelling reason’ for departure of Speedy Hire executive chairman
  • Berkeley chairman’s pay under attack
  • Energy companies deny climate change reporting claims
  • Investment managers fear PM’s new executive pay policy
  • MPs probe potential for blocking foreign takeovers
  • Sports Direct chairman could face AGM opposition
  • Data and the law
  • Peer review for governance principles
  • Culture club: FRC report
  • Audit market still a concern, reports watchdog
  • Audit is improving but concerns remain
  • Power to the boards
  • Capita appoints Powell as chairman
  • Power needed to protect pensions by blocking deals
  • Climate change deal harder after Brexit
  • Diversity disclosure improvements in US required, says financial watchdog
  • Shareholder rights regulation caught in ‘uncertainty’
  • Watchdog investigates KPMG over HBOS
  • New regs focus audit committees on quality
  • Survey reveals lack of satisfaction with executive skills
  • Businesses ‘vulnerable’ if they fail to confront climate risk
  • VW dividend plan attacked
  • S&P 500 falls short on gender diversity
  • French pay reform
  • China needs to improve governance
  • Regulator pledges more oversight in China
  • Shareholders revolt over Sir Martin’s pay
  • UK governance watchdog responds to criticism over BHS
  • Calls made for AIM governance code
  • Japan’s new governance code under pressure
  • The Swedish model
  • BHS governance a ‘blight on reputation of British business’
  • Volkswagen’s governance quagmire
  • Women on boards “not a priority” in Gulf states
  • Hermes calls for ‘special audit’ of VW governance
  • Watchdog to consider succession guidance
  • Investment Association warns of ‘kitchen sinking’ by new CEOs
  • BT chairman reveals departure date
  • Confronting climate change risk
  • French president threatens binding shareholder votes
  • Canada’s Beaudoin under scrutiny for attendance
  • Spring brings shareholder pay revolt
  • Norway’s oil fund takes action against VW
  • Institute of Directors issues pay warning
  • Few comms experts find NED roles
  • Workers unwilling to blow the whistle
  • Corporate manslaughter penalty increased to £20m
  • Legal & General searches for new chairman
  • Scandal-hit VW posts first loss in 15 years
  • Nissan governance causes clash with French minister
  • No more all-male boards in FTSE 100
  • Executives unprotected by traditional insurance
  • Succession planning consultation launched
  • Senior managers’ regime expanded
  • Companies suffer from male-only execs, says report
  • Boards struggle to link risk and strategy
  • Companies under fire over all-male boards
  • Amazon’s reputation crisis
  • Buffett backs BofA’s dual CEO/chairman role
  • Technology: be quick or be dead
  • Royal London targets Sports Direct
  • FTSE 100 continues pay restraint
  • Toshiba restructures board
  • Nestlé chairman to step down
  • Natural disasters could cost businesses $4.6trn
  • OECD launches governance principles
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