Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s biggest retail lender and the by-product of the takeover of Sanpaolo IMI by Banca Intesa is an excellent case study of a) how not to construct a post-merger board and b) how not to engage with shareholders …
Read MoreUBS shareholders now have six months to decide whether to file actions against the board after voting down the 2007 director liability discharge resolution.
A total of 52.8% of shareholders voted against the discharge for 2007 with 46% in support. …
Read MoreThe Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the UK’s corporate governance regulator, wants to hear from institutional investors in the UK and overseas about its proposals for a new “Stewardship Code” aimed at creating best practice principles for investors when engaging with …
Read MoreAfter weeks of will they, won’t they and political horse-trading Britain’s top banks have committed to implement the remuneration reforms agreed by the G20 in Pittsburgh.
The five banks, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS, and Standard Chartered – have confirmed their …
Read MoreInvestors should be made to engage – or so it has been suggested. Speaking at last week’s CEIOPS conference (Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors) Patrick Brady, chair of the Joint Committee on Financial Conglomerates (JCFC), aired the …
Read MoreThe US Senate has revealed its proposals to overhaul the American financial system through Senator Christopher Dodd’s “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010”.
Across 1,336 pages the Bill outlines a series of remedies which it states will end “too …
Read MoreLord Myners has supported calls for reform of the Takeover Code in the UK, but made it clear that “The owners of firms that have lost so much from ill-advised takeovers must generate the momentum for reform”.
Myners was speaking …
Read MoreAs the UK gears up for the national elections on May, the general public has now received nearly all of their “notices of meeting” ahead of casting their ballots. Sadly, there won’t be any electronic voting – but then the …
Read MoreThe Extraordinary General Court of Bank of Ireland held today (Jan 12) approved important changes to the Bye-Laws of the company, with 99% of shareholders voting in favour. Bank of Ireland was established by Charter and thus is subject to …
Read MoreEthos have announced that eight of the 20 companies included in the Swiss SMI Index have now agreed to implement a vote on remuneration issues.
In the autumn of 2008, Ethos and eight Swiss pension funds filed a “say-on-pay” resolution …
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