The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of US institutional investors that engage companies on the environmental and social impacts of their operations, has urged US Senators not to pass the Financial CHOICE Act.
The ICCR sent …
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Corporate governance in Kenya is improving due to enhanced corporate disclosure and improved regulation according to this year’s corporate governance index from Cyton Investments.
Cyton noted that its first index, and accompanying corporate governance analysis, published last year had …
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The European Commission has adopted guidelines on the disclosure of environmental and social information. The Commission said they will help companies to disclose relevant non-financial information in a consistent and more comparable manner.
These guidelines have been published as companies …
Read MoreThe UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed a series of changes to improve the governance of fund managers, to strengthen their duty to act in the best interests of investors and to use its senior managers regime to bring …
Read MoreKenya has adopted an investor stewardship code as part of its development as an attractive market for financial investment.
The stewardship code was enacted by the country’s Capital Markets Authority which last year published a corporate governance code, developed …
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Companies seeking to list on South Africa’s Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) will now have to comply with the King IV corporate governance codes (King IV), which was published last year, as part of amended listing requirements. Companies already listed …
Read MoreThe UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged the banking group Barclays and four former executives with conspiracy to commit fraud and unlawful financial assistance given to the Qatar government when it provided funding during the 2008 financial crisis. This …
Read MoreThe water sector regulator, Ofwat, has fined Thames Water the maximum automatic penalty it can of £8.55m for admitting in this year’s report and accounts that it will miss its leakage reduction targets for the first time 11 years. …
Read MoreThe US House of Representatives has passed the controversial Financial CHOICE Act despite strong lobbying against the legislation by institutional investors. The bill will now move to the Senate where its expected to face tough opposition.
The Council of Institutional …
Read MoreThe Indian financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has set up a committee to advise on issues relating to the corporate governance of listed companies. SEBI wants the committee to recommend improvements within the next four …
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