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Director code of conduct proposed by IoD


June 23, 2022

Measures to maintain high standards of professionalism and ethics

A code of conduct for UK directors has been proposed by the Institute of Directors (IoD), as part of a recent …

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Kobe Steel

The chief executive and other senior executives have stepped down from Japanese company Kobe Steel following the publication of the report outlining the findings of an investigation into the data falsification that the company admitted to in October last year.…

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Carillion directors

The former directors of Carillion who appeared before the joint Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committees inquiry into the company’s collapse last month were labelled as “delusional” by its co-chairs Frank Field MP and Rachel Reeves …

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Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is holding a consultation on a revised corporate governance code and changes to its listing rules.

The stock exchange said the review of the Hong Kong code was driven by a desire to raise the …

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US CEO

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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Shariah governance

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has required listed companies to have at least one woman director within three years which it said would lead to a doubling of the number of female directors in the country.

The …

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FRC climate "major review"

The UK needs to implement corporate governance reform as part of plans to boost the economy as it leaves the EU according to the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) Commission on Economic Justice that is rethinking economic policy for …

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Tomorrow's Company NEDs

Twenty-five years of corporate governance reforms in the UK have tended to create a compliance culture on company boards with non-executive directors more focused on risk mitigation and monitoring than supporting management to boost their businesses according to a report …

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business trust Ecoda

Encouraging responsible leadership by company boards so that businesses contribute to wider society was the theme of the recent discussion organised by the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) and Standard Life Investments. This was building on a vision …

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UK corporate governance

The UK’s Purposeful Company Task force, set up by the Big Innovation Centre, has called for major changes in corporate governance, asset management and backed the Financial Reporting Council’s proposal for company’s to report on how directors are …

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