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A new round of proposed regulations sent Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s U.S. listing to decline 4.9% on Tuesday to $173.73, its lowest close since October 2019. 
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As BuzzFeed Inc. was exploring plans to go public earlier this year, it ran into a problem: Executives at the digital-media outlet’s biggest investor, NBCUniversal, thought they were getting a bad deal.
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Founded in 1999, BuildDirect provides building materials for flooring and decking projects to professional clients through an online marketplace. It will go public in a reverse takeover by VLCTY Capital Inc., a public company that was created solely to combine with another business. The amalgamated company will trade under the ticker symbol “BILD.”
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Amazon.com Inc.has eclipsed Walmart Inc. to become the world’s largest retail seller outside China, according to corporate and industry data, a milestone in the shift from bricks-and-mortar to online shopping that has changed how people buy everything from Teddy Grahams to teddy bears.
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A boom in US corporate borrowing has laid the foundation for a wave of defaults at financially risky companies, according to leading debt rating agencies that assess and rank bonds and loans.
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The investment provides Tilray with a retail foothold in the U.S., should cannabis be legalized at the federal level, while Medmen receives much-needed capital to keep its business afloat.
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The Canadian Press has learned that Ontario plans to introduce a set of policies requiring employers in education and several health-care settings to develop strict COVID-19 vaccination policies for their staff.
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A faster short-term U.S. expansion would delay the day when China’s economy overtakes America’s in size
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Cash and short-term investments on corporate balance sheets rose in the second quarter
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Transaction will give Tim Hortons China a Nasdaq listing
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New research shows that the percentage of women on boards of Canadian companies making Toronto Stock Exchange debuts this year, by IPO or shift from another market, is dismally low. Despite all the stated commitments to ESG that are now must-haves in investor slide decks, it’s still very much a bro-fest in the boardroom.
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As challenging as social issues are for public companies, political issues may be even more sensitive – particularly across a company’s workforce. Just as there must be processes and protocols in place for responding to social issues, boards and management teams need to establish frameworks around taking political positions as a company.
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Linking ESG metrics to executive pay is a powerful way to drive change, but compensation is a sensitive instrument, so we urge caution. Compensation real estate is limited. Each new metric may dampen the emphasis on existing metrics. It is important to balance all incentive metrics to gain the most powerful effect. Companies can be most effective with ESG metrics starting with just the most relevant issues for them and their industry or sector, rather than trying to address all ESG elements.
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Environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration is becoming mainstream even for fixed-income exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors who are now seeing sustainability as a key consideration in their asset allocation.
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‘The Covid pandemic is still casting a shadow on economic activity,’ the Fed chairman says
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The Swiss government on Wednesday joined a small number of rich countries that have set a timeline for major companies to disclose the risks they face from climate change.
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Sun Life Financial Inc. has told its 12,000 Canadian employees they must receive the COVID-19 vaccination in order to return to offices in three major Canadian cities, becoming one of the first federally regulated financial institutions to mandate vaccinations for its staff.
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A top Federal Reserve official has warned that the US central bank’s emergency bond-buying programme is ill-suited for an economy held back by supply constraints, urging instead a speedy end to the stimulus to avoid burdensome debts and inflationary pressures.
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The Canadian Press has learned that Ontario plans to introduce a set of policies requiring employers in education and several health-care settings to develop strict COVID-19 vaccination policies for their staff.
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One answer is to realign pay programs to support the company’s larger mission and purpose, rather than a particular strategy. Boards can link a new set of incentives to progress toward achieving the mission, with an eye to promoting sustainable growth. Once executives are focused on and paid for long-term, mission-driven success, they’ll be more inclined to make the necessary investments.
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The Covid-19 variant is damping demand and raising costs after a spring and summer that seemed to promise a rapid recovery
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FTSE 100 set to lose biggest listed company by market value under radical overhaul
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Transaction will give Tim Hortons China a Nasdaq listing
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Seventeen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s job market is a mess of contradictions.
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It has been many years since certain Dodd-Frank executive compensation statutes were pushed aside and never finalized. Now, with the new Biden administration and changes in SEC leadership, those executive compensation statutes (regarding clawbacks and certain executive compensation disclosures) could potentially have implementation target dates in the near future.
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