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Aviva Investors has written to finance ministers and heads of central banks in 21 countries from the UK to Brazil urging them to address climate risks over concerns that efforts to tackle global warming could hit sovereign debt.
A cyber yuan stands to give Beijing power to track spending in real time, plus money that isn’t linked to the dollar-dominated global financial system
Almost 25 years after the Kyoto protocol, the green technology future rests on the next generation
Credit Suisse revealed a $4.7bn loss from the blow-up of family office Archegos Capital and unveiled a dramatic management overhaul, jettisoning at least seven senior executives, traders and risk managers as it reels from the twin crises involving Archegos and supply-chain financing company Greensill Capita
Janet Yellen, the US Treasury secretary, has called on other countries to join Washington in setting a global minimum tax for companies as she vowed to reassert America’s leadership in international economic policy.
Dual-class voting shares concentrates power in the hands of investors and founders, a troubling trend that disrupts the checks and balances needed to keep business accountable.
Inter Pipeline Ltd. has secured a substantial government grant for its $4-billion petrochemical plant, making the project more appealing to a potential partner and putting pressure on Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. to raise its hostile takeover bid for the company.
Keith Creel was just a relatively raw kid from Alabama when Hunter Harrison summoned him to the 21st floor of the NBC Tower in Chicago for a meeting in 1996. It’s a day vividly imprinted on his memory 26 years later, because days like that were not supposed to happen to people like him.
Many Canadians are in lockdown. Canadian companies, however, are on the road in the pandemic, launching takeovers at a record-setting clip and creating a deal-making boom that’s seeing domestic firms emerge as international players.
Just a few years ago, investors and proxy advisors wanted to limit a compensation committee’s use of discretion in determining executive rewards. Now, amid a global pandemic and mounting ESG pressure, discretion is proving invaluable as boards rush to develop new and creative compensation metrics.
The Smiths Falls, Ont.-based cannabis company said Thursday that it has acquired Ace Valley, a Toronto company that makes vapes, gummies and pre-rolls. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Rogers Communications Inc.’s deal to acquire Shaw Communications Inc. would hurt consumers unless Shaw’s wireless carrier Freedom Mobile is excluded, Quebecor Inc.’s chief executive officer has told members of Parliament, hinting his company would be an interested buyer.
Parliament’s spending watchdog says the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic should send the deficit to $363.4 billion.
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The International Monetary Fund raised its projections for global economic growth for this year and next, citing aggressive stimulus spending by the U.S. and other rich nations and the accelerating rollout of Covid-19 vaccines.
Move over, Elon Musk and Tim Cook. There is a new name breaking into the list of the highest-paid chief executives: Chad Richison, the founder and CEO of payroll processor Paycom Software Inc.
Credit Suisse revealed a $4.7bn loss from the blow-up of family office Archegos Capital and unveiled a dramatic management overhaul, jettisoning at least seven senior executives, traders and risk managers as it reels from the twin crises involving Archegos and supply-chain financing company Greensill Capital.
Most advanced economies will emerge from the coronavirus crisis with little lasting damage, thanks to the relatively rapid rollout of vaccines and their willingness to increase sharply public spending and borrowing, according to the IMF
During the last few years, ESG has transformed from a buzzword into a priority in the corporate world. More recently, a plethora of events has accelerated this demand for corporate change and accountability—COVID-19, the resurgence of racial justice movements and climate change
South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc said on Monday it will wind down its loss-making mobile division – a move that is set to make it the first major smartphone brand to completely withdraw from the market.
ts stock has soared as it has branched into everything from COVID-19 contact tracing to ride sharing – yet it’s also a small company with meagre revenue and no high-profile venture capital behind it. Its CEO offers few insights into how it all works – or what it might do next
Mr. Entwistle, the longest-serving chief executive officer among Canada’s three biggest telecoms, saw his total compensation jump to $16.04-milion, a 24-per-cent increase from 2019′s pay of $12.92-million, according to the company’s proxy circular filed on Thursday.
The termination of the proposed merger of Canada’s biggest and third-biggest airlines threw into question the future of Montreal-based Transat.
Take-up of its schemes has been lower than the scale of the covid-19 crisis would suggest
Canadian pension fund Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec said on Thursday it is setting up a partnership with Energize Ventures, a global alternative investment manager, that will invest $125 million over three years in clean technologies.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux is questioning the Liberal government’s plan to announce up to $100-billion in stimulus spending in the April 19 federal budget, via a report that pegs the estimated size of the deficit at $363.4-billion.
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