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Standards and values

UK Stewardship Code

The consultation period has now closed. This article summarises the details of two of the 118 responses received by the FRC.

CR reporting review

A recent study looks at how companies are currently communicating with their stakeholders and how they demonstrate CR commitment within their Annual Reports.

Could do better

The role of effective board evaluation has been highlighted by both the Walker and the FRC reviews. The ICSA have released a survey which looks at what the annual reports of the top 200 companies in the UK.

Banking governance in Singapore

The value of audit?

Revised corporate governance in Australia

Governance concerns with Vietnam

Strategy audits revisited

Following on from his article in September last year, Paul-André Rabate takes a practical look at how a board strategy audit works.

Transparency of ownership

Susan Henderson and Michael Kempe look at the development of TARGET2 Securities, a single European market for the settlement of securities, and raise some concerns.