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BlackRock director

Solomon Soquar joins BlackRock

The former CEO of Barclays Investments Solutions becomes a non-executive director of BlackRock Sustainable American Income Trust.

Davos resilience

News round-up: this week in governance

Lessons from Davos; companies risk sliding back on ethical practices; economics affects everyone; Sir John Kingman moves to Barclays.

Barclays board changes

Barclays announces board changes

Sir John Kingman will join as a NED and take over from Crawford Gillies as chair of the group’s ring-fenced banking arm, Barclays UK.

say-on-climate support

Say-on-climate voting is on the up, but investor support falls

US shareholders tend to approve companies’ climate plans, while support is waning among European shareholders, finds study.

Barclays bank

Barclays appoints C.S. Venkatakrishnan as group chief executive

Venkatakrishnan, the bank’s former head of global markets and group chief risk officer, takes over from Jes Staley.

Barclays bank

Board moves: Sir Ian Cheshire to step down as chair of Barclays Bank UK

Sir Ian will be replaced by Crawford Gillies from 1 January, but will remain on the Barclays board until the AGM in May.

UK sterling coins

Quarter of FTSE 100 companies cut executive pay

Covid-19 crisis sees renewed emphasis from investors on alignment between executive pay and wider workforce remuneration.

Barclays bank

Board moves at Speedy Hire; Barclays; and BTG

Speedy Hire gets a new chairman; and BTG’s new remuneration committee chair will have interesting discussions ahead, as a tranche of shareholders vote against recent remuneration policy.

Jes Staley, Barclays CEO

Executives warned of action using senior managers regime

Prudential Regulatory Authority warns it will act using the senior managers’ regime where executive behaviour is found to be wanting.

Barclays

Barclays International reveals its gender pay gap of 48%

Barclays reveals the challenge facing financial services on equal pay by disclosing that on average women are paid almost half as much as men at the bank.

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