Leading the Society of ‘doers’
The annual Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals national conference marks a changing of the guard when...
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Boardroom archive
Following the leader
Analysts and investors often review insider transactions in an effort to gain insight into management’s bullish or bearish...
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All change
Now’s a busy time for corporate secretaries in the UK, or company secretaries as they’re known across the pond. For the first time...
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Tokyo calling
Just as scandals at Enron and Worldcom gave rise to the governance reforms of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, fraud at Japanese companies...
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Mediation and the SEC
The SEC had to do a bit of fire-fighting in late spring as a Wall Street Journal story smoked out the topic of arbitration as a...
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United we stand
Earlier this spring the British consumer group Which? surprised corporate Europe by suing a sporting goods retailer on behalf of...
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Electronic media as compliance challenge
For decades, records managers toiled in relative obscurity, developing methods and processes to archive and retrieve the tons of...
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What lurks within…
As a by-product of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act the NYSE added annual board self-assessment to its new listings rules. If handled...
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O, these naughty times indeed
What’s the modern shareholder to do? As Portia said in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: O, these naughty times, Puts...
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Cultural club
Globalization is pushing markets and stock exchanges to consolidate, and the broadening scope of collaboration indicates a...
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