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FCA, FRC target “Effective” Stewardship

FRC and FCA target new, rigorous stewardship regime,
SRDII implementation begins, ESG resourcing questioned

In the latest round of consultations and discussion documents, the UK’s governance and financial markets regulators have laid out their “substantially higher expectations for investor stewardship …

Rio Tinto fined in the UK and charged with fraud in the US

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has been fined £27m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for breaching UK disclosure rules while the US Securities & Exchange Commission has charged the company and former executives with fraud in relation to the

Financial Conduct Authority Senior Managers and Certification Regime

UK’s financial regulators extend governance regime

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published proposals to extend the senior managers and certification regime (SM&CR) across most regulated firms replacing the existing approved persons regime. This follows a government announcement in October 2015 that it wished to extend …

FCA: Miss Piggy, you are cleared for take-off

Back in September 2011, the FT ran a story exploring the frustrations felt by investors over complexity and opacity in the voting chain (“Call for clarity in proxy voting process”, FTfm, 12^th September 2011). In many ways …