Corporate governance - Vigil

The FairPlay Canada coalition wants the CRTC to do something about piracy, but others say blocking websites isn't the CRTC's responsibility and is 'futile'

The U.S. and China have agreed on the broad outline of a deal that would save imperiled Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp., according to people with knowledge of the matter in both countries, as the two sides move closer to resolving their trade dispute.

Argentina has abruptly called on the International Monetary Fund for financial help, amid currency pressures. We review recent economists’ position on this.

In the decade since the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the global financial crisis, governance and leadership roles in banking have been transformed for the better. But is it now time for banks to assess progress, and question whether it is necessary to reduce the regulatory burden and the increasingly one-size-fits-all approach taken by supervisory bodies?

The recent announcements from major institutional investors about issues such as gender diversity and climate change seem like reactions to social ills.  But they are not unmoored from investing. They are logical expressions of a relatively newly empowered, third phase of corporate governance that tries to improve risk-adjusted return through the use of systems-level risk mitigation.

The EU’s rules for data privacy were once derided as restrictive, but after the Facebook scandal Brussels hopes they will help bring big tech to heel

British Columbia marijuana advocates are warning that thousands of small-scale producers could be left out of the upcoming legal adult market unless the federal and provincial governments change their approach to craft cannabis.

Age diversity is an important factor to achieving diversity of thought. That’s how 91 percent of directors responded in our 2017 Annual Corporate Directors Survey. They even rated age diversity higher than any other element of diversity, including gender and race.

Annual board evaluations are now commonplace for both for-profit and non-profit organizations, with specific board evaluation recommendations forming a key component in nearly every major corporate governance standard, review or report internationally.

An effective onboarding process is now viewed as a highly valuable part of establishing diverse boards that can innovate and adapt to change.

Executive pay has become a core issue in corporate governance. As companies begin to act on excess, we ask what’s in store for pay in the future.

Argentina severed ties with the International Monetary Fund 12 years ago, swearing never to go back again — which is why President Mauricio Macri’s decision to seek a new loan from the fund shocked his nation.

PayPal is paying $2.2bn to buy iZettle, snapping up the Swedish payments start-up just before it was set to become the biggest fintech in Europe to list.