The qualified pool of chief executive (CEO) talent to run the largest publicly traded companies in the US is incredibly small, according to the directors who sit on the boards of these companies according to recent research by Stanford Graduate …
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is assisting the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA) and the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) to update and strengthen the country’s corporate governance code.
Croatia has had a code for companies listed …
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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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With UK annual reports continuing to steadily increase in length and demands for more disclosures the challenge remains for their preparers to keep reports clear and concise, according to Ernst & Young’s (EY’s) fourth annual review of FTSE 350 annual …
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