Kobe Steel

The chief executive and other senior executives have stepped down from Japanese company Kobe Steel following the publication of the report outlining the findings of an investigation into the data falsification that the company admitted to in October last year.…

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lobbying

The US investment giant, BlackRock, has stated that is responding to the recent school shooting in the US by engaging with firearms manufacturers and retailers to understand what they are doing to reduce the risk of this kind of …

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shareholder voting research

In a recent article in the Sunday Times British entrepreneur, Paul Johnson criticised the voting recommendations made by proxy voting advisers – including the recent advice that he be removed from the board of Aim-listed hotel chain, Elegant. But…

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Shariah governance

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has begun a consultation into draft Shariah governance regulations, which it said are a comprehensive set of requirements for the governance of Shariah-compliant companies and entities, Shariah-compliant securities and Islamic financial institutions …

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Rio Tinto

Institutional investors in Rio Tinto, have filed a resolution calling on the mining group to cease membership of the Minerals Council of Australasia (MCA)  which they believe is primarily a lobby group for the coal industry. Rio …

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corporate governance codes

The UK government has commissioned research into what steps employers have taken to remove barriers to workplace progression for ethnic minorities. The results of this research will be used to assess progress made by employers on recommendations in the…

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UK corporate governance code

The Institute of Directors (IoD) has called for tougher rules on executive pay, including greater transparency over the effect of share buy-backs,  in its response to the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) consultation on the revised UK corporate governance code.

The …

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audit market

The Liberal Democrat leader, Vince Cable, has written to the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) asking the regulator to look again into whether the big four accountants should be broken up. Commenting on Twitter about the firms that dominate the …

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Wells Fargo

The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, which regulates the country’s financial institutions, has restricted the growth of Wells Fargo following “recent and widespread consumer abuses and other compliance breakdowns”. The restriction on the bank is to continue “until …

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UK corporate governance code

There continued to be a focus on executive pay in 2017 by shareholders of FTSE 350 companies data from Manifest for the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s (PLSA) AGM voting review showed.

The PLSA stated that the executive pay …

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