The ex-Whitehall mandarin, chair of EDF, has become an independent non-executive director of the BT Group.

Activists disrupt Unilever AGM; how AI might save ESG; a difficult pill for Smith & Nephew; should the FCA name and shame?

FRC review of audit market competition reveals 98% market share that ‘leaves little room for challengers to emerge’.

Plans for resilience reporting regulations are scrapped in the volte-face, as is the requirement for an audit and assurance policy.

Implementing managed shared audit would put a burden on audit committees, a recent panel discussion concluded.

How might you be affected by a global move towards the banning of employment contract non-compete clauses?

Directors who pay lip service to climate-related risks may be exposed to breach of duty claims for failing to protect firms’ interests.

Recent media reports suggest the government is leaning towards shared audits as part of long-awaited market reforms—despite warnings against the move.

The Competition and Markets Authority says regulators should punish audit committees, impose joint audits and force an “operational separation” of auditors from other parts of their firms
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This past year has been packed with governance events from the launch of new codes, executive pay debates, and leadership behaviour debacles to climate change, cybersecurity scandals and the Khashoggi murder.