Categoria: International update

It includes:

1. The Croatian presidency of the EU: DeHavilland EU report
2. EP: Collective Redress
3. Digital Tax: Feud between France and the US
4. UK: Annual Review of the UK CG Code
5. Finland: New CG Code
6. Italy: toughens its quotas to ensure gender diversity on boards from 30 to 40%
7. Barclays’ shareholders are asking the board to cease business with unsustainable clients
8. Deloitte and ICAEW report on audit committees
9. ecoDa News

It includes:

1. ESMA proposes strengthened rules to address undue short-termism in securities markets
2. Member States confirm agreement on taxonomy on sustainable finance
3. UK: moves to strengthen auditor independence and ban conflicts of interest
4. France : Quotas for female board members could be extended to mid-caps companies
5. France : AFEP Report on shareholder activism
6. ecoDa News

It includes: 

1. European Green Deal
2. The 24th European CG Conference in Helsinki
3. Leading academics publish policy recommendations to make corporate governance more sustainable
4. Harvard Law School Forum: Thoughts for Boards of Directors in 2020
5. Sustainable Finance Taxonomy: State of play
6. ECGCN : New Chair
7. ecoDa News

It includes:

1. MEPs, politicians and left-wing intellectuals call for more ambitious European Green New Deal
2. European investors: calling to enshrine the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality goal in law.
3. EP/FEMM Committee: The EU Strategy for Gender Equality – Hearing
4. CEAOB : New Guidelines on Duration of the audit engagements and auditors’ involvement on financial statements in ESEF
5. US Center for Audit Quality: A White Paper On The Role Of Auditors
6. Press articles: Corporate Purpose / Ethics
7. ACCA Conference: the non-financial reporting directive
8. ecoDa News

It includes:

1. EC: High-Level Forum on Capital markets Union
2. EFRAG: Climate-related reporting
3. ECB : Open letter on climate change
4. UK: Report on Principles for Purposeful Business
5. UK: Labour Party’s and Liberal Democrats’ Manifesto
6. CCBE Conference on Modernisation of EU Company Law
7. EC: Green Deal
8. ecoDa news

It includes:

1. EC: New Commission should take office on December, the 1st
2. CEAOB: Questionnaire to AC Chairs
3. AFEP: Encourages Large Companies’ Executives To Integrate Their Own Energy-Climate Foresight Analysis In Their Strategy
4. The Institute of Internal Auditors (USA): a discussion paper on Reimagining the Corporate Board
5. The European Single Electronic Format
6. The Conference Board: CEO and Executive Compensation Practices
7. LSE: How to turn trust into a competitive advantage?
8. ecoDa news

It includes:

1. EP: Hearing of Thierry Breton, incoming Commissioner for the internal market portfolio
2. EY Survey on Directors Duties
3. UK: Principles for purposeful businesses
4. Institute Rules for Growth: Corporate governance and shareholders engagement conference: the new normal
5. EU Commission: to propose bank capital reform by June
6. OECD invites public input on the GloBE Proposal under Pillar Two
7. ecoDa news

It includes:

1. DG FISMA: Consultation on Fit and Proper assessment
2. Directors’ Duties: EY Survey
3. The international platform on sustainable finance
4. Accountancy Europe: Sustainable Finance call to action
5. Canada: Culture at board level
6. South Africa: Stakeholder Engagement
7. New Zealand: Climate change and sustainability
8. UK: FRC annual review of corporate reporting
9. The OECD unveiled its plan for a global corporate tax
10. ecoDa news

It includes:

1. EC Action Plan: EY Survey on directors’ duties
2. EP:  Country by country reporting
3. EFRAG: The European Lab’s future agenda
4. ACCA/CFA: Ethics in the financial markets
5. Germany: BaFin publishes broad definition of sustainability risk
6. UK: Non-financial reporting:
7. PwC’s 2019 Annual Corporate Directors Survey
8. IRC : Feedback on integrated reporting
9. ecoDa News

It includes:

1. EC: Action Plan on sustainable finance /Due diligence
2. IMF: New stance on gender quotas
3. EGCI: Stakeholder Impartiality: A New Classic Approach for the Objectives of the Corporation
4. IFC: New publications
5. The Economist reported the decline of the CEO-Chairman dual mandate:
6. CDP’s guide to the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance
7. An ecoDa/iBabs (Euronext) survey on the future of governance
8. ecoDa News