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A new form of shareholder proposal focused on environmental and social issues does not ask the company to, for example, report on reducing emissions. Instead, the proposal is focused on h...
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35 comment letters submitted in response to New York’s “BitLicense” proposal that have been made public by their authors. We have aggregated these letters, for ...
The OCC has issued final risk governance guidelines that formalize its heightened expectations for large national banks and federal savings associations. The risk governance guidelines se...
In preparation for the 2015 proxy season, companies should be aware of the updates to the policies that govern how the two influential proxy advisory firms, ISS and Glass Lewis, will be a...
In preparation for the 2015 proxy season, companies should be aware of the updates to the policies that govern how the two influential proxy advisory firms, ISS and Glass Lewis, will be a...
In what is being called the “Boardroom Accountability Project,” the New York City Comptroller, on behalf of the New York City Pension Funds, issued a press release yesterday announcin...
Both ISS and Glass Lewis have released their policy updates for the 2015 proxy season, with new guidelines for board adoption of bylaws, IPO companies, independent chair shareholder propo...
A study by the CFA Institute has been quoted in shareholder proposals seeking proxy access for a particularly notable statement: that proxy access has the potential to raise U.S. market c...
A database of compliance policies for Fortune 500 companies, launched by the University of Houston Law Center, should help companies that want to benchmark their protocols.
The free datab...
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In the past month, no rulemaking requirement deadlines passed, ten rulemaking requirements were finalized, and one rule was proposed that would meet one rulemaking requ...