The 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 …
Read MoreUkraine has adopted a long-awaited law which will improve the corporate governance of its joint stock companies (JSC) as well as the shareholder rights. Legal experts said that the changes will boost the prospects of foreign investment in Ukrainian companies …
Read MoreCompliance with the Japanese corporate governance code of 2015 shows strong compliance according to research published by the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
The Code contains five general principles, 30 principles, and 38 supplementary principles and like the UK code …
Read MoreThe US Council Institutional Investors (CII) and individual institutional investors have voiced their continued opposition to the Financial CHOICE Act, which has been proposed and passed by the House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee.
The CII and over …
Read MoreThe UK’s general election campaign highlighted workers rights and representation as well as executive pay.
With the main parties launching their manifestos this week the Conservative Party reiterated its commitment, that appeared in the government’s corporate governance green paper…
Read MoreThe NZX’s revised corporate governance code (the NZX Code) and its supporting rule amendments have been published. The New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) which administers the code said this was the first substantial update since 2003 and represented a significant …
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