ESG regulation is once again at the heart of legislative tensions in the US Senate as Republicans and Democrats lock horns over the recently ESG Enforcement Task Force. Democrat legislators …
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The countdown to festivals finally reopening this summer after lockdown has begun, but investors and financial services professionals are in …
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Swiss bank UBS’s business relationship with Hikvision, a surveillance company linked with the persecution of Uighurs in China, has come …
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Guy Jubb, former head of governance at asset management giant Standard Life Investments, claims AGMs have lost their …
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BlackRock and Vanguard have voted in support of a human rights due diligence proposal, tabled at the recent Tyson Foods AGM.
Filed by the American Baptist Home Mission …
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Marks & Spencer has become the first top-tier UK clothing company to formally announce it will cut all ties with suppliers that are connected to the forced labour of …
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The US Department of Labor (DoL) has thrown a new curveball into its approach to governing shareholder rights, questioning the need for asset owners to have their voices heard by companies at all.
Following …
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A group of senior Chinese regulatory officials and financial experts is calling on their home nation to co-operate with the US to avoid further escalations of the ongoing trade war.
The China Finance 40 …
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Despite claims from some of the world’s largest investors that moves to impose new proxy voting regulations would increase costs, the US financial regulator has pressed ahead with a series of …
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Senator presses SEC’s Clayton over “Main St” letters report
A US Senator has called on the head of the US financial regulator to provide an update on the status of its reports into “apparently fraudulent comment letters” that showed support for proposed new rules on proxy advice.
In a …
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