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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has taken new steps to delay the full applicability date of its fiduciary rule and related exemptions, according to recent court filings. If the DOL’...
Since the CFPB issued its Arbitration Rule in July, most commentators have focused on ways the rule may be blocked from going into effect. Chief among these is the possibility that Congre...
For US companies, the detailed portion of the ISS benchmark survey targets compensation matters, along with one question on poison pills:
Short-Term Poison Pills. ISS asks whether it shou...
The Federal Reserve has proposed changes to its guidance on corporate governance for banking organizations, which refocus its supervisory expectations more clearly on a board’s core res...
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) has proposed a new rating system for large financial institutions (LFIs). This proposal is intended to more closely ...
ISS has launched its benchmark policy survey, which helps formulate policies that guides the proxy advisory firm’s voting recommendations. For the first time, the policy has two parts: ...
On August 2, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 (the “Act”). The measure, which was passed by substantial bipa...
New York Stock Exchange-listed companies should be aware of upcoming and proposed changes to NYSE rules and policies concerning dividends and distributions. NYSE recently announced implem...
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a Notice today requesting public comment on potential changes to the regulations implementing the Volcker Rule. The Notice focu...