23 February, 2021
Stripe appoints Mark Carney to its board of directors
Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, has joined the board of directors at digital payment company Stripe. Carney ...
23 February, 2021
Adriane M. Brown joins the board of American Airlines
American Airlines has elected Adriane M. Brown to its board of directors. Brown will also serve on the company’s audit and corporat...
10 February, 2021
Forced CEO turnover can damage the reputation of board directors
Parting company with an underperforming chief executive is a good thing, right? The fulfilment of a board’s governance responsibilities, and bound to boost their standing? It seems not. New resea...
5 February, 2021
Reforms impose new responsibilities on directors for financial reporting
Reforms set to be published next week will propose fines and bans for directors held responsible for failures in financial reporting. According to the Financial Times, BEIS (the Department...
5 January, 2021
Foreign audit committee members linked to low-quality financial reporting
Much is made of recruiting board members from around the world. Non-executives from distant shores can add value and certainty provide knowledge of foreign markets. But do foreign directors add value ...
20 November, 2020
D&O litigation on the rise amid host of emerging risks
As bankruptcies mount brought on by the current crisis, so the risk of litigation against directors and officers (D&O) climbs. But it is not just the pandemic bringing potential problems to the do...
13 October, 2020
Changes to company constitutions ‘could allow use of AI on the board’
The idea of robots driven by artificial intelligence taking a seat on boards has been in circulation for some years now. In the UK a major legal reform would be needed before a robot could be a “dir...
1 September, 2020
Power, politics and crisis response on the board
When crisis kicks in, we tend to rely on instinct. Familiar solutions and well-honed responses will occur most naturally to us—regardless of their relevance to the problem at hand. If you want to kn...
18 September, 2019
Sustainability and the five archetypes of boardroom behaviour
There is growing evidence to suggest that sustainability is getting
11 September, 2019
