Corporate governance - Vigil

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she discusses the ins and outs of small- cap corporate governance and the important role of the board with Adam Epstein, former institutional investor and founder of Third Creek Advisors, LLC. 

HSBC has become the latest global lender to commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and pledged as much as $1tn of support in the next decade to help its clients become more environmentally friendly.

Overdose deaths rose by 5% in 2019. This year is likely to be even worse

Canada’s wireless industry is pressing Ottawa to help accelerate the deployment of 5G, arguing in a new report that doing so could help Canada meet its climate targets.

Barrick Gold Corp.’s top executive says the gold industry needs more consolidation so it can increase exploration to boost depleting reserves, lure more generalist investors and improve efficiencies.

The governor of the Bank of Canada said managing the financial risk from the COVID-19 pandemic is more critical than ever, while the central bank is paying close attention to the housing market amid an historically low interest rate environment.   

Under La Flèche's guidance, Metro has increased revenues to over $16 billion annually and employs 90,000 Canadians

International Business Machines Corp is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world's first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on high-margin cloud computing.

More than half of business and academic economists polled this month said they didn’t expect the labor market to claw back until 2023 or later all the jobs lost as a result of coronavirus-related shutdowns. That is a slower timeline than economists predicted six months ago.

When the history of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, what will it say about the vast army of professional economists — in banks, academia, consultancies, think-tanks — along with science experts and members of the media who have mostly failed to publicly challenge the riskiest global policy initiatives ever contemplated, let alone implemented?

Seizing the opportunity will require a new kind of political-economic thinking. Instead of starting from a stylized view of how the world ought to work, we should consider what policies have proved effective in different societies experiencing similar challenges. This comparative way of thinking increases the menu of options and may suggest novel solutions to our problems that lie outside the narrow theoretical assumptions of market-fundamentalist neoliberalism.

Governor Tiff Macklem discusses financial risks from the COVID‑19 pandemic that are affecting our economy and that could shape how well it recovers. He also talks about financial risks from climate change.

Sweden is held up as a champion of liberty. In fact it is the home of pragmatism

After a temporary reprieve, poverty and hardship are increasing

Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy Eaton Vance Corp for about $7 billion in a cash-and-stock deal that can quickly expand its investment-management business and further expand offerings to retail investors, the bank said on Thursday.

International Business Machines Corp is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world’s first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on high-margin cloud computing.

Democrats from a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee issued a report on Tuesday detailing tactics it said four of the biggest technology companies used to gain dominant positioning in online search, advertising, social networking shopping and other businesses.

The federal government has opted to forego consumer choice rather than work with the provinces to fix waste management

For many companies, the global pandemic has accelerated digital transformation by enabling employees to work from home. However convenient, this new virtual landscape also presents many risks. How are boards accounting for these new digital vulnerabilities?

Steve Mollenkopf sees the technology riding a post-pandemic bounceback and says his mission is to ensure the chip maker doesn’t miss out

Europe’s top competition official said she would make more use of injunctions, including in pending cases against big technology companies, after successfully forcing U.S. chip maker Broadcom Inc. to change its alleged anticompetitive practices.

Antitrust cases over past behaviour have proved mostly ineffectual. So regulators are turning their attention to forward-looking rules