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Board and employee relationship insight

‘Investors are calling for clearer company disclosures on workforce related issues’, according to the latest FRC Lab report, Workforce-related corporate reporting – Where to next?

Global CG trends 2020

Global trends in 2020 include a greater focus on the environmental and social part of ESG, the increasing importance of corporate purpose, better board oversight of corporate culture, and a more expansive view of board diversity according to a report by Russell Reynolds Associates.

WEF Global Risks Report 2020

The global economy is facing an increased risk of stagnation, climate change is striking harder and more rapidly than expected, and fragmented cyber space threatens the full potential of nextgeneration technologies according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2020.

Attitudes to business ethics

Singapore Exchange reporting requirements

Board role in ESG governance

Strengthening independent checks

Artificial Intelligence

David Nolan argues that it’s critical in the age of AI that organisations are able to create cultures that encourage trust and responsibility and that this principal is embodied in their leadership.

Board diversity beyond the FTSE 350

Tracey Brady discusses the findings of a recent review carried out by the Company Matters team into board diversity in AIM and FTSE 100 small cap companies.