Responses to the FRC’s consultation on its proposals highlight practical concerns about implementation and compliance.

We need to ensure that regulations do not inappropriately reduce a board’s ability to take decisions in the best interests of the company.

The Institute of Directors says the FRC proposal on board governance means ‘lines of accountability will be blurred’.

In Europe as a whole, only 7.7% of top companies’ chief executives are female, gender diversity barometer shows.

The Institute of Directors has called for the supervision of UK governance to be removed from the Financial Reporting Council and placed with a new independent commission.

Former easyJet CFO Chris Walton steps up to interim chairman at the IoD, as it looks to move on following an investigation into chairwoman Lady Barbara Judge.

The Institute of Directors has been presented the results of an investigation into alleged misconduct by chairwoman Lady Barbara Judge towards staff; its council meets today to discuss the findings.

Remuneration committees should have responsibility for reporting on what happens to executive pay following a share buyback, according to the Institute of Directors (IoD).

Official receiver to examine the conduct of Carillion directors past and present as it supervises the liquidation of the support services and construction company.

Business groups are largely in favour of the government’s planned law to publish pay ratios, but the TUC describes the ‘tick-box’ approach as ‘feeble’.