Recommendations were published this week by SEBI panel chaired by Uday Kotak which are designed to radically improve corporate governance practices in India.
The committee on corporate governance was set up in June by the Securities and Exchange Board of …
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The European Commission has ruled that global online retailer Amazon must repay €250 million in illegal state aid that was granted to it by Luxembourg as tax benefits. The Commission stated that under a rule adopted by Luxembourg Amazon paid
Equifax, the credit rating agency, has announced that 2.5 million additional US consumers were potentially impacted by a data breach first publicly reported last month bringing the total to 145.5 million people.
The Equifax data breach led to a …
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The quality and quantity of dividend policy and practice disclosures have improved in the UK, according to a study conducted by the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Financial Reporting Lab.
The study examined how companies had responded to the Lab’s earlier …
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25th September 2017 marked a global day of action in the support of the United Nations’ Sustainability Development Goals (UN SDGs), on the second anniversary of their inception, and came as two reports emphasised the role business and investors can …
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The People’s Trust, an investment trust due to be launched on the London Stock Exchange and Social Stock Exchange next month, has announced the first six members of its independent shareholders’ committee and its chair, Catherine Howarth, chief executive …
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Retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) topped the sustainability reporting rankings from Carbon Clear that this year covered companies from the major French index, the CAC 40, as well as the Spanish index, the IBEX 35, and the FTSE 100.
The …
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The Association of Member-Nominated Trustees (AMNT) and the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) have achieved a commitment by 12 leading investment consultants that they will make clients aware of the guidance from The Pensions Regulator that pension funds …
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