Corporate governance - Vigil

When big banks see a benefit in helping companies recruit more diverse directors, it’s a sign that there are not just morals at play — there is money at stake, too.

In Europe a slow vaccine roll-out across the eu has left its leaders huffing gallons of the stuff. So far the eu, a club of mostly small rich countries, has vaccinated 1.4% of its population. By contrast Israel, a small rich country, has vaccinated a third of its population.

BlackRock has appeared on a list of investment companies failing to disclose fees adequately to some pension clients, more than three years after the fund manager worked with the UK regulator to improve fee transparency for the sector.

China overtook the U.S. as the world’s top destination for new foreign direct investment last year, as the Covid-19 pandemic amplifies an eastward shift in the center of gravity of the global economy.

The bank’s board awarded Mr. Gorman about $24 million in company stock and about $9 million in cash

Canadian convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc has been quietly reassuring shareholders about its growth strategy after its abrupt plan to buy French retailer Carrefour SA befuddled investors and cast doubt about the stock’s short-term prospects.

Un groupe consultatif mandaté par le ministre des Finances de l’Ontario s’inquiète de diminution du nombre de sièges sociaux et prévient que la province pourrait devenir une économie de « succursales ».

Canada’s top central banker isn’t worried about the country’s hot housing market, saying low interest rates and demand for space rather than speculation are behind the price gains.

Patient care and not phoney bureaucratic metrics or political grandstanding about equality has to be the focus for everyone

Even as governments sprint to get inoculate programmes going, they need to keep an eye on what comes next

China’s big telecom carriers asked the New York Stock Exchange to rethink their planned delisting, the latest twist in a to-and-fro about whether they should be allowed to trade in U.S. markets.

CEO is encouraging more risk-taking to drive growth and ensuring a higher tolerance for failure across the business

Lifting restrictions in early February, after most health care workers and nursing home residents are set to be vaccinated, would still mean far more infections in the long run than keeping restrictions in place until mid-March, for example.

When BlackRock chief Larry Fink issued his annual corporate missive to chief executives last January, he promised a huge shake-up at the world’s largest asset manager. With Mr Fink’s 2021 letter due this month, we look back at BlackRock’s progress so far.

Beijing recently unveiled guidelines for competition, adding to efforts in Brussels and Washington to curb the power of digital companies

IBM is learning fast that even ambitious weight loss plans don’t always solve everything. The company more formally known as International Business Machines posted disappointing fourth-quarter results late Thursday.

Blank check’ firms known as SPACs are in pursuit of America’s hottest startups. Is the invasion a sign of a market euphoria that can’t last?

As Americans begin 2021, they are optimistic about the COVID-19 pandemic. A January McKinsey Consumer Survey finds the majority of American consumer respondents said they expect the COVID-19 pandemic to be better within the next nine months, but will continue best practices to avoid illness.

Is the long battle against turning shareholder corporations into tools of 'public purpose' now lost?

Canada’s largest securities regulator should undergo sweeping changes, including expanding its mandate to encourage growth, rejigging its structure and even changing its name, a government task force says.

Air Canada’s increase proposed takeover of smaller rival Transat AT Inc. has won support from an unlikely source – the head of leisure carrier Sunwing Airlines Inc.

How one large medical system used 100% of doses made available to it

The eurozone economy has suffered a weak start to the year, with high coronavirus infection rates and government restrictions increasing the risk of a second recession since the pandemic first struck last year.