Corporate governance - Vigil

Cryptocurrency companies just spent millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads. What’s harder to say is how much crypto investors spent on game day.

Cambridge, Ont.-based cybersecurity company eSentire, Inc. is the latest Canadian technology company to top a US$1-billion valuation after majority shareholder Warburg Pincus LLC sold some of its stake to a pair of Canadian investors.

As we enter year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the threat of war looming over Europe, protecting people and the planet is not a nice-to-have, it is a must. A consensus is growing: business has a duty to respect human rights, even when and where states waver in their responsibilities to safeguard workers, communities and our natural environment.

Activist investor Daniel Loeb, whose Third Point LLC counts Amazon.com as one of its biggest holdings, told investors on Wednesday that he sees roughly $1 trillion in untapped value at the e-commerce giant.

A 30-cent price increase for a cup of Grande Americano by Starbucks Corp. this week in China sparked an online uproar, the latest setback that the coffee brand faces in its largest market outside of the U.S.

Two years into the pandemic, healthcare fund manager Justin Segalini is trying to keep track of staffing levels at the hospitals, nursing companies and pharmacies he invests in. He peppers management teams with questions about quit rates, wages and salaries—key human-capital indicators that few companies report.

Diversity within the ranks of Canada’s private capital providers is slowly improving, but employees who aren’t white heterosexual men feel marginalized, underappreciated and lack career opportunities, according to a survey to be released Thursday.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of harassment in a calculated effort to “chill” his right to free speech in its oversight of his communications with shareholders as part of a 2018 agreement that settled civil securities charges against the billionaire.

Tim Hortons is slated to open its first location in Houston this summer, signaling the Canadian coffee chain’s strategy to move further south for its next phase of U.S. expansion.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the relationship between the U.S. arm of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and two trading firms with ties to Binance’s founder, people familiar with the probe say.

Last year was nothing short of a rollercoaster ride for the SPAC market. While SPACs have long been a feature of financial markets, 2021 began with explosive growth in new listings, followed by a rapid cool-off in the second half of the year.

In 2020, a vital subsector of private companies, those in the private equity ecosystem, included $4.5 trillion in assets under management, a number that has only continued to expand. In the United States, more capital has been raised in private markets than in public markets each year since 2009

“I expect we will reduce our net debt further,” Chief Financial Officer Leeny Oberg said. “How much will depend on the recovery,” Ms. Oberg said, adding that she plans to cut debt by several hundred million dollars in 2022, if not more.

The world’s luxury-goods giants are raising prices on handbags, clothes, shoes and jewelry—and facing little resistance so far from shoppers.

Investors are looking for hints of the banking industry’s post-pandemic future. Goldman Sachs is set to give some answers.

On 17 January 2022, Larry Fink, the founder and chief executive of BlackRock, published his annual Letter to CEOs (the Letter), titled “The Power of Capitalism”. The Letter focuses on the importance of sustainability issues to companies from a financial perspective, and seeks to highlight the economic benefits of stakeholder capitalism.

Union boss Jerry Dias – national president of Unifor, the largest private sector union in Canada – announced Wednesday evening that he is on medical leave and will temporarily hand over the reins of his office to the union’s senior leadership team.

Anthony Tan, financial management and member, All-Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia (APPGM)-Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Project, said the 'G' in the ESG has nothing to do with the government but is best defined as the governance system in organisations.

It’s almost an axiom of corporate governance: Shareholders should have the power to fire top management if they can muster a majority of the votes.

a company that offers banking services to private clients, small businesses, large corporations, financial institutions, and governments worldwide – is at the epicenter of a proposed shareholder class action. Investors are looking to remediate the significant loss experienced due to the findings of money laundering and financial terrorism… and the subsequent fines assessed against it.

Moderna’s CEO Stephane Bancel said it’s “reasonable” to assume that we may be approaching the final stages of the pandemic.