Corporate governance - Vigil

Montreal’s auditor general offers a stark warning about the city’s financial future in her latest annual report, which dedicates more than 100 pages to dissecting the way the city prepares its annual $6-billion operating budget.

The agreement will include a cap on tariff-free imports for 15 years, a measure intended to appease British farmers concerned about a flood of beef and sheep imports.

A third of new independent members added by S&P 500 boards over the past year were Black directors, new study shows

Lightspeed is doubling the size of its headquarters to occupy 90,000 square feet on six floors of Viger, an office, retail and living space in Old Montreal

The Toronto-based company’s initial public offering is the latest in a parade of Canadian tech companies to take to the public markets. It hiked the size of the deal to $125 million from $100 million after garnering strong demand from investors.

With more than six months until the year ends, U.S. initial public offerings have already totaled $171 billion, eclipsing the 2020 record of $168 billion, according to data from Dealogic.

The European Central Bank wants to include gender diversity as a criteria to approve bank board members and executives, a step that would put further pressure on a sector where the vast majority of senior posts are still held by men.

Are online annual general meetings muting shareholders? That question should be top of mind for legislators as they modernize Canada’s capital markets. This spring’s AGM season marks the second time companies have used the virtual-only format because of COVID-19 restrictions that prohibit large gatherings.

New Zealand, Canada and Sweden rank as the world's most heated housing markets

The electric-truck startup said CEO Steve Burns and CFO Julio Rodriguez have stepped down after a special committee found that some disclosures the company made about truck preorders were inaccurate.

Deal comes at a crucial time for the two plane makers wrestling with the pandemic-driven downturn in air travel

It’s an offering aimed directly at corporate America’s need to account for more than just profits and shareholders.

In a comment letter obtained exclusively by CNN Business, California and nearly a dozen other states warn that the SEC's current disclosure rules are inadequate given the gravity of the climate crisis and the transparency investors crave.

Less than half of the 260 smaller companies listed on the London Stock Exchange’s main index have met the target of having a third of their board roles occupied by women, and more than half still have all-male executive leadership teams.

Executives at troubled electric-truck startup Lordstown Motors Corp. said Tuesday that the company has enough interest from potential buyers to sustain factory output through the end of 2022 and remains on track to start limited production in September.

Tech giant has envisioned hiring doctors to offer primary care, now focused on Watch

Glass Lewis says BlackBerry paid executives more than median compensation for its peers, but performed significantly worse

Big Oil warns regulator not to ‘stray beyond its authority’

Investor groups have asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission for more corporate disclosures on climate change and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, while business interests have pushed back, a Businesshala report said. Review of correspondence published by the regulator shows.

A new EU proposal would significantly expand the scope of ESG reporting by companies operating in Europe.

The bank is officially launching RBCx this week, a new platform led by Bay Street venture capital veteran Sid Paquette that will include a broader set of products to provide capital to fast-growing tech companies.

Shopify, Sequoia Capital and others recently bought about $1 billion of shares in fintech Stripe, which could go public late this year or next

Lordstown Motors Corp. , one of the most ambitious electrical-vehicle startups, said its chief executive and top financial leader resigned after a new report from a board committee found inaccuracies in parts of the company’s disclosures on truck preorders.

The contraction in the U.S. seemed to end quickly in April 2020, but the committee charged with determining an endpoint has been quiet.

Could regulators have stopped the electric car start-up’s implosion?