Corporate governance

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• Liability for credit rating agencies

  
  PointOfLaw Forum — Authority: 565
  A WSJ editorial takes note of changes in the language of a Barney Frank bill: Also removed from the bill was a bizarre "joint liability" scheme in which all the credit raters would be responsible for each others work, so that a bad report by Fitch could be grounds for a lawsuit against Moodys. Unable to restrain ...
  8 hours ago

• Executive Compensation and the Maturity Structure of Corporate Debt

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 564
  Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Paul Brockman , Professor of Finance at Lehigh University, Xiumin Martin , Assistant Professor of Accounting at Washington University, and Emre Unlu , Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Nebraska. In our paper, Executive Compensation and the Maturity ...
  9 hours ago

• More Evidence That High CEO Pay Is Detrimental To Shareholders

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 623
  Im gonna keep harping on this issue until Say On Pay gets done for shareholders and apparently, so will Jason Zweig . If youre not familiar with Zweig, hes the Wall Street Journal s Intelligent Investor columnist and hes doing phenomenal work in exposing the failure of corporate boards, directors and ...
  1 day ago

• UK Pre-Budget Report Targets Banking Sector

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 564
  Editor’s Note: Edward Greene is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP focusing on corporate law matters. This post is based on a Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Alert Memo. As part of today’s UK Pre-Budget Report, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, announced two important ...
  1 day ago

• City firms coy about Christmas parties

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Venturis Table organised Christmas parties for 97 companies with several banks imposing a confidentiality agreement It is usually a cause for celebration, but this year many firms were eager to keep their Christmas corporate bonding out of the news. For fear of provoking a public backlash, almost one third of ...
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• In the boardroom, a womans work is never done | Ruth Sunderland

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  In the wake of the credit crunch, I unexpectedly found myself on a feminist crusade. Some progress has been made, but not yet enough AT THE beginning of this year, I posed the question: "Is the credit crunch a feminist issue?" People looked at me as though I were slightly deranged. Now it is part of the mainstream ...
  2 days ago

• Financial boards face a strategic game of risk

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  The excesses of the last decade highlight a corporate governance issue with which the boards of banks and other financial institutions will have to grapple.
  2 days ago

• A Review of Corporate Governance in UK Banks and other Financial Industry Entities

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 564
  Editor’s Note: Sir David Walker is a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley. He was recently tasked by the British government to lead a commission that would review corporate governance in that country’s banks. This post is based on the Executive Summary and Recommendations of Sir David’s final report, which is ...
  2 days ago

• Ever Wonder What Would Happen If …?

  
  The Corner Office — Authority: 423
  If youre still working on Christmas Eve, youre either an overachiever, in retail, or just putting off wrapping presents … like me. Whatever the reason, here are some business scenarios to ponder that, if they actually happened, would make all of our work lives much easier and more fulfilling ...
  4 days ago

• Goldman Begins Balancing Risks and Rewards

  
  Bulletproof — Authority: 128
  When Goldman Sachs announced earlier this month that its 30-member Management Committee won’t receive cash bonuses for 2009 , the global investment bank once again demonstrated its leadership on one of the most contentious issues of the year – executive compensation. As a key part of the bank’s overall plan, ...
  4 days ago

• The RTI and Income Tax Returns

  
  INDIAN CORPORATE LAW — Authority: 123
  The recent decision of the Central Information Commission in the Escorts case, has led to many raised eyebrows. In sum, the CIC held in Mr. Rakesh Gupta v. Public Information Officers ( Decision No. CIC/LS/A/2009/000647/SG/5887, available here ), that the information submitted to the Income Tax Department by a ...
  4 days ago

• SEC Provides Guidance on Effective Dates of Expanded Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance Rules

  
  Corporate Securities Law Blog — Authority: 114
  As we recently reported in our December 18, 2009 blog article , the SEC adopted substantial amendments on December 16, 2009 that significantly expand the executive compensation and corporate governance disclosure requirements for publicly held companies. These new rules were presumably adopted now in order to ...
  5 days ago

• 2009 - The Year of Spending Dangerously

  
  The Corner Office — Authority: 423
  Weve just managed to squeak by the worst financial meltdown since the great depression. We still have record unemployment and nobody can get a loan. If you had to find a silver lining in all of this, what would it be? Well, youd think we learned that leverage is bad, right? Wrong!
  5 days ago

• A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 564
  Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Professor Malcolm Baker and Xin Pan of Harvard University, and Jeffrey Wurgler , Research Professor of Finance at New York University. In our recently updated working paper A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions , we propose a “reference point” ...
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• India to Strengthen Its Corporate Governance Legislation

  
  CIPE Development Blog — Authority: 424
  Last January, a massive fraud was unearthed at an IT outsourcing giant Satyam. Satyam’s founder and chairman B Ramalinga Raju stunned India’s financial world when he declared he had overstated profits for years and inflated the company’s balance sheet. On December 10, Indian Corporate Affairs Minister Salman ...
  6 days ago

• ABCP settlement: still a rigged table

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 126
  News item: Canadian regulators settle ABCP fiasco For many it will be a bittersweet end, but I see in the DTM that settlements have come to pass with some Canadian institutions — about two and a half years after the wheels came off the asset-backed commercial paper market. When I say “see”, don’t take ...
  6 days ago

• Private Equity - probably much better than its current reputation

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 143
  In an HBS working paper William A. Sahlman conludes that the root cause of the financial crisis can be found in a broken corporate governance system and shortcomings of the regulatory system. He states that managers and boards of failed firms did not pay enough attention to incentives, risk management and control, ...
  6 days ago

• Video: Ted Talk A New Way To Fight Corruption

  
  Simoleon Sense — Authority: 519
  About this talk (Via Ted) Shaffi Mather explains why he left his first career to become a social entrepreneur, providing life-saving transportation with his company 1298 for Ambulance. Now, he has a new idea and plans to begin a company to fight the booming business of corruption in public service, eliminating it one ...
  1 week ago

• IANS top stories at 9.30 p.m.

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  NATIONALInfosys chief, promoters in trouble over Bangalore airpot - Moved at 204521 killed in Madhya Pradesh bus-truck crash - Moved at 2005, lead by 2130Andhra MP in Hyderabad, tension mounts over Telangana — Roundup moved at 1841 No statehood but talks on to solve Gorkhaland problem: home secretary — Third Lead ...
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• If Youre Not a Leader, Youre a Follower

  
  The Corner Office — Authority: 423
  Are leaders born or made? Can you recognize leadership potential? Can a follower become a leader? Do you care? Well, you should. Recognizing leadership potential, in yourself and in others, is critical for each and every one of you. And its all-too-easy to get fooled … and to fool yourself.
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