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The SEC today announced that its staff will host a public roundtable on December 5 to discuss the use of proxy advisory firm services by institutional investors and investment advisers. T...
The PCAOB wants audit committees to take note of a recent audit practice alert that it issued in light of a significant number of audit deficiencies observed in the past three years relat...
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In the past month, no rulemaking requirement deadlines passed, six rulemaking requirements were proposed and one rule was finalized to meet a rulemaking requirement.
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The SEC director of the Division of Corporation Finance, Keith Higgins, testified before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday at a hearing titled “The JOBS Act at a Year and a Half...
“For board members, 2013 was a tale of two proxy seasons,” declares the ISS 2013 Proxy Season Review, taking a page out of the NYC mayoral race playbook.
The report (free registration...
The U.S. banking agencies have issued a proposal to implement the Basel III liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) in the United States. The LCR requires large banking organizations to maintain a...
Exclusive forum provisions in corporate bylaws and certificates of incorporation are back on the agenda for many companies. We reviewed the trend data in a June 2012 briefing and predicte...
Calling him an “economy-class activist,” a Reuters article unveils some of the mystery surrounding retail activist John Chevedden, well known to many as the most prolific sponsor of s...
Disclosure of realizable pay and realized pay may be all the rage, but the fact that a wide range of different practices exists led the Conference Board Working Group on Supplemental Pay ...
On October 17, 2013, the Council of the EU adopted the proposal for a directive to amend the Transparency Directive (2004/109/EC) (the “Amended Transparency Directive”). The adoption ...