Corporate governance - Vigil

The growing number of apprenticeships in the U.S. has more to do with European companies importing the practice into their American operations than with the long-running NBC television reality show and its former host who now lives in the White House.

Facebook Inc. executives confronted angry shareholders at the company’s annual meeting, as activist investors pressed the social-media giant to adopt new measures to protect its platform from abuse, boost the power of small shareholders – and even to study whether Facebook should break itself up.

Canada is imposing dollar-for-dollar tariff “countermeasures” on up to $16.6 billion worth of U.S. imports in response to the American decision to make good on its threat of similar tariffs against Canadian-made steel and aluminum.

The ever-evolving challenges facing corporate boards prompt an updated snapshot of what is expected from the board of directors of a major public company—not just the legal rules, but also the aspirational “best practices” that have come to have equivalent influence on board and company behavior.

Unilever’s outgoing veteran chief executive, Paul Polman, may stay long enough to see the company through to its 2020 targets and would prefer an internal candidate as his replacement, brokerage Bernstein said.

The British government voted against a proposal to give investors more say over issues such as executive pay at Royal Bank of Scotland on Wednesday, just two years after it suggested shareholder committees could drive up corporate governance standards.

Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas will buy a 25-per-cent stake in a B.C. liquefied natural project led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC, a move designed to strengthen the $40-billion proposal and bolster Canadian energy exports.

The highest-paid banking and finance chief executive in the S&P 500 is no surprise. It is James Dimon, head of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank by assets and market capitalization.

“To take notes or not to take notes—that is the question” often asked in corporate board rooms today. As a matter of good governance, it is important that the minutes serve as the single, clear, official record of each in-person or telephonic board and committee meeting.

It is with a certain dread every autumn that some companies described by Amazon.com Inc. as its technology partners gather at a Las Vegas convention and find out if Andy Jassy has new plans to encroach on their turf.

Canada’s quick retaliation to U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest volley in his “America First” campaign has raised fears of a trade war between two of the world’s friendliest allies – and thrown doubt on Canada’s long-held status as a favoured partner of the economic superpower.

Luggage maker Samsonite said Friday its CEO has stepped down following a report by a short-seller questioning his credentials and the company’s accounting.

It is now widely recognised that there has been an exceptional increase in executive pay over the past 30 years. But recent academic research asked executives: is it right and fair that some people earn disproportionately more than others?

The US subsidiary of Deutsche Bank has been added to a federal list of institutions with weaknesses serious enough to threaten their survival, in a move that will add to the issues facing the German lender as it scales back its North American operations.

US regulators have begun an easing of the Volcker rule on bank risk-taking, proposing to give institutions much greater freedom to trade by cutting back a centrepiece of post-crisis reforms.