corporate governance reform Archives

The scandal over what happened to Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica illustrates that companies still struggle with core questions about how data can and cannot be used.

Greg Clark, business secretary, governance reform

29 August, 2017

Governance reform expands reporting obligation of large UK firms

Large non-listed companies in the UK will have to report on how they take into account the interests of employees, shareholders and the environment in which they operate, in what will be the biggest ...

10 May, 2017

IoD calls for shareholders to have second vote on pay

The next government should introduce new laws giving shareholders a second vote, if there is a significant minority vote against a company's remuneration report, according to the UK's Institute of Dir...

27 February, 2017

Singapore puts governance under review

Corporate governance in Singapore is to be reviewed. An announcement from the state's financial regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, said a special council would be set up to review the...

30 January, 2017

Why the pay debate refuses to go away

In late 2015, ACCA published joint research with the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which suggested that people valued "recognition at work" more highly than "pay", even though t...