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 People’s Trust, an investment trust due to be launched on the London Stock Exchange and Social Stock Exchange next month, has announced the first six members of its independent shareholders’ committee and its chair, Catherine Howarth, chief executive …
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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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Financial exchange group Deutsche Börse has introduced a cap on the total remuneration of its executive board members. The company said the decision to introduce the cap was taking at its supervisory board meeting this week and was part of
Company boards, particularly the non-executive director members, need to ensure they take an ethical and value-led approach to financial reporting according to the latest paper from the UK’s Institute of Business Ethics.
The author of the report Guy Jubb, former …
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The UK government is to require companies to publish pay ratios between chief executives – based on their total remuneration – and their average UK worker. This was among the actions outlined in the government’s response to its corporate governance …
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The Governance Green Paper
Seminar: Tuesday, October 31st 2017
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, and the Secretary of State for Business, Greg Clark, have laid out the vision for reform in corporate governance to facilitate effective, entrepreneurial and prudent management …
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The UK government has signalled that it will taking a shareholder and stakeholder market-based approach to governance reform rather than introducing more rules on executive pay. According to early briefings reported in the on Financial Times (FT) and Daily …
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