Armstrong Bonham Carter's additional comments on the Financial Reporting Council's Progress Report and Second Consultation October 2009
Article by Tom Bonham Carter
> 09 Oct 2009
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ABC believes there is still much to do to improve the transparency of Boards.
Armstrong Bonham Carter's response to Sir David Walker's review of the corporate governance in UK Banks and other financial industry entities
Article by Tom Bonham Carter > 01 Oct 2009
> ABC believes this review is currently at risk of making little beneficial impact on the corporate governance arrangements of Banks as it has not fully understood the reasons for the Bank boards' failures.
Article by Tom Bonham Carter > 01 Oct 2009
> ABC believes this review is currently at risk of making little beneficial impact on the corporate governance arrangements of Banks as it has not fully understood the reasons for the Bank boards' failures.
Radical way to halt sham of the AGMs
Article by Anthony Hilton, The Evening Standard > 24 Jul 2009
> The report by Sir David Walker in which he put forward a range of ideas to improve the governance of banks and the involvement of shareholders has had one unforeseen effect.
Article by Anthony Hilton, The Evening Standard > 24 Jul 2009
> The report by Sir David Walker in which he put forward a range of ideas to improve the governance of banks and the involvement of shareholders has had one unforeseen effect.
This corporate governance conundrum
Article by Tom Bonham Carter > 23 Jun 2009
> There is a fundamental problem with the current debate on how to fix the corporate governance failures that have beset our public listed companies. Namely, there is a lack of a definition of what is an effective Board.
Article by Tom Bonham Carter > 23 Jun 2009
> There is a fundamental problem with the current debate on how to fix the corporate governance failures that have beset our public listed companies. Namely, there is a lack of a definition of what is an effective Board.
The undercover boss
Article by Stefan Stern, The Financial Times > 08 Jun 2009
> Employee attitude surveys, brown bag lunches, focus groups, informal chats: managers try quite hard to find out what their staff are thinking.
Article by Stefan Stern, The Financial Times > 08 Jun 2009
> Employee attitude surveys, brown bag lunches, focus groups, informal chats: managers try quite hard to find out what their staff are thinking.
A system battered, but not broken
Article by Sir Christopher Hogg, Financial Reporting Council > 18 Mar 2009
> While there is no assumption that the Code is fundamentally flawed or that a different regulatory framework for corporate governance could have alleviated the financial crisis, we are clear that the time is now ripe for testing the Code's content and application against the fresh thinking that the financial crisis must provoke.
Article by Sir Christopher Hogg, Financial Reporting Council > 18 Mar 2009
> While there is no assumption that the Code is fundamentally flawed or that a different regulatory framework for corporate governance could have alleviated the financial crisis, we are clear that the time is now ripe for testing the Code's content and application against the fresh thinking that the financial crisis must provoke.
Competent board directors and investors are more vital than new rules
Article by Tracy Corrigan, The Daily Telegraph > 19 Dec 2008
> The retreating tide of the financial crisis has already revealed the wreckage of some of the world's largest banks; now even less appetising debris is being exposed.
Article by Tracy Corrigan, The Daily Telegraph > 19 Dec 2008
> The retreating tide of the financial crisis has already revealed the wreckage of some of the world's largest banks; now even less appetising debris is being exposed.
Boards should consider who really runs UK plc
Article by Andrew Taylor, The Financial Times > 27 Nov 2008
> Plunging financial markets may finally compel boards to do what critics of "fat cat bonuses" never could - get tough with lavish executive rewards.
Article by Andrew Taylor, The Financial Times > 27 Nov 2008
> Plunging financial markets may finally compel boards to do what critics of "fat cat bonuses" never could - get tough with lavish executive rewards.
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