The emerging role of risk committees
An emerging trend at public companies and some private firms is the formation of stand-alone risk committees. Most of these are in...
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Managing systemic risk, ethics and integrity
Some board members who were supposed to prevent their companies imploding in the
credit crisis seem to have emerged unscathed and...
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Managing systemic risk, ethics and integrity
Some board members who were supposed to prevent their companies imploding in the
credit crisis seem to have emerged unscathed and...
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Corporate Secretary Week: SEC threatens credit ratings agencies
Dear readers, It has all the makings of a classic courtroom drama: a powerful and wealthy, yet apparently unrepentant, defendant...
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Corporate Secretary Week: New liability disclosure rules put companies at risk and damage shareholder value
Dear readers,The flood of expanded disclosure requirements for US corporations just keeps getting worse. Congress is responsible...
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Corporate Secretary Week: Make sure your directors get hired – or you might get fired
Dear readers,The hysteria is reaching a crescendo. In about 24 hours the SEC will have made its recommendation on proxy access...
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M&A: the long thaw
When the financial crisis hit, mergers and acquisitions were plunged into a deep freeze and deals simply ceased. Now, nearly two...
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Best practice: establishing an electronic meeting management process
Corporate secretaries and others involved in running board meetings have been trying to move to more dynamic and efficient ways of...
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Corporate Secretary Week: the SEC has been lying to you and punishing you for it
Dear readers, It is a common refrain and one that we have been hearing for a long time, but the problem is, it just isn’t true...
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Say on pay triggers proxy campaign at Occidental
Say on pay, while non-binding, has some serious teeth. Just ask Occidental Petroleum. In May a majority of shareholders refused to...
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