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  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    Management
    Why personal conduct is a growing risk for business

    Embarrassing revelations about senior leaders can damage trust and cause significant upheaval

    FT montage of Jeff Zucker, Bernard Looney, Steve Easterbrook and Edward Tilly
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    BP PLC
    Looney accused of promoting BP women with whom he had undisclosed relationships

    The relationships allegedly occurred before the former CEO took the helm of the oil giant

    Bernard Looney
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    On Wall StreetPatrick Temple-West
    US picket lines put shareholders in the spotlight over pay

    Asset managers likely to face greater scrutiny over their actions on executive rewards

    A protester carrying a sign from the Writers Guild of America outside Penske Media’s offices in New York, US
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    World Health Organization
    Push by Bangladesh PM’s daughter for WHO role raises transparency concerns

    Saima Wazed is one of only two nominees to lead UN health body in south-east Asia

    US president Joe Biden, Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her daughter Saima Wazed and first lady Jill Biden in New York on Tuesday
  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    THG PLC
    Sale of THG boss’s business park falls through

    Deal would have included Manchester headquarters of ecommerce group headed by Matthew Moulding

    THG co-founder Matthew Moulding, who also owns the business park
  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    Special Report
    Navigating Cyber Risk

    There is growing concern that AI may be weaponised by hackers to enable cyber attacks. Plus: why airlines care about connections; how to spot a deepfake; global shortage of cyber security staff; and five easy security wins

    What appears to be a cyber hacker is utilizing A and I to destroy a desktop computer that is being used by a person
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Inside BusinessSilvia Sciorilli Borrelli
    Italy’s push to reform its capital markets hits a hitch

    Convoluted amendments threaten to reduce the appeal of a package of measures

    People in front of Italy’s Stock Exchange, the Borsa Italiana
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Cboe Global Markets
    Cboe chief resigns over undisclosed relationships with colleagues

    Edward Tilly to be replaced as boss of Chicago exchange group by board member Fredric Tomczyk

    Edward Tilly
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Markets InsightMasato Kanda
    Crises show the need for better corporate governance

    Access to capital markets allows companies to overcome periods of significant stress

    G20 leaders at a summit in New Delhi, India on September 9 2023
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    BP PLC
    How Bernard Looney’s career at BP unravelled

    Chief executive’s abrupt exit has left oil major facing questions over its culture

    Bernard Looney and a BP logo
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Boards tighten the rules on executives’ office romances

    BP boss Bernard Looney is not the first chief to be felled for failing adequately to disclose liaisons with staff

    Bernard Looney
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Alice Ross
    Share divestment isn’t the answer to greener investment

    Selling up means giving up a seat at the table

    A promotional display for the Edinburgh International Book Festival
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    BP PLC
    BP chair rules himself out as next chief executive

    Helge Lund has sought to reassure investors following Bernard Looney’s abrupt departure

    BP chair Helge Lund
  • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
    Financial Reporting Council
    Lawyers concerned about ‘extraordinary’ FRC code omission

    Response to proposed update of UK corporate governance code criticises failure to formalise role of general counsel

    The frontage of the offices of the Financial Reporting Council in London
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    Investment trusts
    UK investment trusts urged to improve diversity and governance

    Survey by asset manager Quilter Cheviot describes sector as ‘too cosy and clublike’

  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    Leadership
    How the next generation is breaking into company boardrooms

    More businesses are offering apprenticeships to diversify the pool of future directors

    Rupal Patel
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    UK politics
    UK government set to omit audit reform from legislative plans

    Overhaul of accounting regulation and corporate governance is facing fresh delay

    Montage of Kemi Badenoch and logos of Deloitte, KPMG, PwC and EY
  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    UK companies
    FTSE-listed groups say heavier reporting burden distracts from strategy

    Company secretaries’ survey suggests requirement for extra information is taking up ‘disproportionate time’

  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Vanguard Group Inc
    Vanguard’s backing for green and social proposals falls to 2%

    Asset manager joins BlackRock in cutting support for investor resolutions it considers ‘overly prescriptive’

    The word Vanguard on a smartphone
  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Lex
    Corporate governance: shareholder votes stop directors from going over-board Premium content

    So how many seats is too many?

    An empty boardroom
  • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
    Executive Pay
    Investors warn ‘fluffy’ ESG metrics are being gamed to boost bonuses

    Majority of S&P 500 companies use environmental, social or governance criteria to guide pay

    A Southwest Airlines ground crew member organises unclaimed luggage at Los Angeles International Airport last year
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Inside BusinessChristian Davies
    Prosecutor-turned-president looms over South Korean business

    Yoon Suk Yeol pardons company leaders but state makes an intervention elsewhere

    Yoon Suk Yeol
  • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
    US regulators raise pressure on board members at competing companies

    Federal Trade Commission joins Department of Justice antitrust division in scrutiny of ‘interlocking directorates’

    US Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, left, and US Department of Justice antitrust division assistant attorney-general Jonathan Kanter
  • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
    Goldman Sachs Group
    Goldman’s Solomon retains board and investor backing amid internal backlash

    Low morale and dislike of leadership has burst into open after period of brutal press coverage

    David Solomon
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    Football
    Premier League to set out protocol forcing ‘bad’ owners to sell

    English top flight discusses divestment process if individuals are barred as directors

    Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich watches a Premier League match at Stamford Bridge in 2017
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