The French securities regulator, AMF, has asked the European Commission to make all companies, irrespective of size, disclose harmonised ESG data under the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive.
The Autorité des marchés financiers …
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The European Commission will proceed with the implementation of the second Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II), defying protests from some post-trade groups.
As a result, the second phase of SRD II will come …
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New European regulations on green benchmarks have been thrown into the spotlight this week, amid allegations they favour the interests of a handful of ESG data providers rather than supporting “genuine sustainability”.
The …
Read More“Don’t be British, be Australian” is the message from Claire Bury, the EU’s corporate governance official.
Speaking at the UK’s National Associate of Pension Funds investment conference in Edinburgh recently, Claire outlined the Commission’s approach to the forthcoming Governance Green …
Read MoreThe European Commission this week published a summary of the responses to its Green Paper on Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions.
The paper revealed some not so surprising results when it comes to views about the role of institutional investors: …
Read MoreThe threat of quotas to improve board diversity moved a step closer last week with EU Fundamental Rights Commissioner Viviane Reding telling the European parliament: “Equality in decision-making is not yet a fact … I do not rule out the …
Read MoreWith shareholder engagement moving ever higher up the (potentially) regulatory and market best practice agenda, voting is likewise coming under the spotlight. In recent days, we have seen the unexpected result of the Infineon AGM provoke concerns about ‘irregularities in …
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