The European Commision has commissioned  a €350,000 research study to assess the effectiveness of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms concerning Member States’ corporate governance codes.

Four researcb partners have been selected to underake the review: BUSINESSEUROPE (the Confederation of European Business); …

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Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos today hit out at shareholders for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to prevent the current financial crisis.

Speaking to the International Corporate Governance conference in Amsterdam, Bos used the platform as an opportunity to make a forthright …

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The UK’s FSA has moved swiftly to address the market’s concerns about rights issues  timetable problems. Until mid-February 2009 the Listing Rules’ required a 21 day subscription period; this has now been reduced to 10 business days.

The new subscription …

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The US has taken another step forward to bring the US proxy process into line with the rest of the world. Late last week (20/02/2009) the Delaware State Bar Association received a number of proposed amendments from its Corporation Law …

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