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Raising the bar on corporate governance

Corporate Governance Indices can raise a country’s overall corporate governance standards and can offer companies possible financial and investment benefits from corporate governance improvements, according to a new report from the IFC and the World Bank.

New working group for Brazilian capital market

FRC consults on executive remuneration

New CG rules for Kuwait

Australian Securities Exchange consultation papers

Deloitte launches scholarship programme with ICGN

Sri Lanka revised CG Code

Cyber audits prerequisite to good governance

Seth Berman considers the growing area of cyber risks and how boards can protect their businesses against them.

International financial dispute settlements

André Baladi clarifies the respective roles of arbitration and class actions in settling international financial disputes.

Non-executive trends in the UK

Peter Whitehead looks at current trends in the non-executive arena based on the views of members of the Advisory Board of the Financial Times Non-Executive Directors’ Club.

Governing and directing: are they different? Part 1

Peter Tunjic suggests that governance and directorship are two distinct systems of thought and action in the boardroom and that the difference between the two lies primarily in their attitude to value.