Tag: Julia Hoggett
Regulator updates UK governance code
Reporting on internal controls is a key feature of the scaled-down 2024 update, as is the principle of ‘comply or explain’.
Executive pay gap widens further
Top CEOs will have earned more than a typical UK worker’s median annual pay by lunchtime on 4 January, thinktank estimates.
News round-up: this week in governance
Supply chain warning; Japan improves corporate governance; FRC drops proposals; BP penalises Looney; US investors resist high pay.
Proxy adviser warns LSE over governance
Abolishing the public register of shareholder revolts ‘won’t stop capital providers exercising their democratic rights’, letter states.
Why UK corporate governance needs tightening up
The LSE’s response to the government’s panicky U-turn on governance regulation is not helpful to NEDs and other stakeholders.
Big Four firm in late plea for audit reform
Further delay ‘will not achieve the aim of restoring trust in audit and corporate governance’, says Deloitte managing partner.
An uncomfortable U-turn on audit reform
The government’s bonfire of the regulations expected for audit reform creates a source of uncertainty for business.
Reversal on audit reform makes ‘little sense’
Investors react to the government’s U-turn on proposed measures prompted by the collapse of Carillion in 2018.
UK government backtracks on audit reform
Plans for resilience reporting regulations are scrapped in the volte-face, as is the requirement for an audit and assurance policy.
News round-up: this week in governance
Learning lessons from the CBI; US say-on-climate voting enthusiasm dims; calls for higher executive pay… and for pay restraint.