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Female FTSE board report 2015

This annual Cranfield report shows that 23.5 per cent of FTSE 100 boards are now female, with 263 female-held directorships across the FTSE 100, the percentage of non-executive directors has increased to 28.5 per cent and women in executive directorships is at an all-time high of 8.6 per cent.

Governance challenges for boards

A new report from the US stresses the importance of early engagement in discussions of strategy, risks and succession planning in the boardroom, as well as the need for proactive communication and engagement with shareholders and other key stakeholders.

BVB joins Sustainable Stock Exchanges

Oman new draft CG Code

SEC proposes disclosure rule

Differential ownership rights

The ICGN has released a Viewpoint outlining their concerns about the proposed introduction of differential ownership rights in the revised Shareholder Rights Directive.

Corporate governance developments in Japan

Hiroshi Komori sets out recent developments in Japan including the publication of Japan’s Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes.

Has the time of ‘behavioural governance’ come?

Christopher Bennett argues for a more inter-disciplinary approach to corporate governance.