Corporate governance - Vigil

Compensation committees still have 2020 on the mind as they navigate annual and long-term incentives. Governance priorities like ESG and diversity are also making their way into pay packages, as compensation committees design incentive programs for the months and years ahead. What trends are we seeing across corporate boardrooms?

Ontario will reopen all its elementary and secondary schools to in-person learning over the next two weeks even as concern grows about the emergence of more contagious variants of the COVID-19 virus.

The Logic’s Martin Patriquin speaks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about Canada’s new legislation to crack down on Big Tech.

Daimler will create the world’s largest standalone commercial vehicle manufacturer as it splits its truck and Mercedes-Benz car businesses into two public companies.

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Satya Nadella is betting the Covid-19 crisis has spawned demand for digital tools that will outlast the pandemic and says there is a growing appetite for all-encompassing employee management applications that the company is going after.

Ant Group Co has agreed a restructuring plan with Chinese regulators under which the fintech giant will be turned into a financial holding company, Bloomberg News reported, potentially a major step towards easing founder Jack Ma’s regulatory woes.

Vlad Tenev, the chief executive of the online brokerage Robinhood, has had practice doing damage control.

Obsess over customers, ignore the stock market and know the difference between good and bad failure are among the Amazon chief’s leadership maxims.

Indications raise hopes over how soon the U.K. will be able to reopen its ravaged economy

The role of the CEO has dramatically shifted as companies learn to walk a fine line between stakeholder capitalism versus meeting the needs of their company’s balance sheet.

COVID-19 has most affected workers who were already vulnerable. Unless bold action is taken, the postpandemic recovery will further exacerbate inequality.

BCE Inc.’s is speeding up its network investments, with plans to boost its infrastructure spending to roughly $4.7-billion this year as it looks to bring internet to more homes and double the size of its 5G wireless footprint.

The United States has requested a probe of the commercial relationships between Telus Corp. and Chinese telecom equipment makers as part of a review of a subsidiary’s acquisition of an American artificial intelligence and data annotation firm.

Here’s how five tech giants — and one small standout — have responded to calls for improved inclusion in tech.

As companies try to meet ESG measures, and a likely Nasdaq rule, efforts to add women and minorities to boards are moving from talk to action, opening opportunities for finance executives.

Filings for jobless benefits, a proxy for layoffs, have held at high levels during a winter surge in Covid-19 cases

Germany’s largest lender will likely face tougher operating conditions as well as higher investor expectations in 2021

Telus International, a subsidiary of Telus Corp., is expecting to price at the top of its planned IPO range, at US$25 a share, when it begins trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, two banking sources say.

For Amazon, cloud computing has been a booming business that is massively lucrative. Amazon Web Services, or AWS,  generated little more than 10% of Amazon’s total sales in the final quarter of last year but yielded more than half the company’s operating profit in the period.

The Treasury Department on Wednesday announced few changes to its regular debt issuance schedule for the current quarter, while emphasizing the government continues to face uncertain and sizable borrowing needs due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Pfizer expects about $15bn in revenue this year from its Covid-19 vaccine developed with BioNTech and has raised its 2021 profit guidance on hopes that having one of the first and most effective vaccines will boost its prospects.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will leave his post later this year, turning the helm over to the company’s top cloud executive, Andy Jassy, according to an announcement Tuesday. Bezos will transition to executive chairman of Amazon’s board.

How boards should prepare for the rising cybersecurity threat