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Dodd-Frank Act in Middle of Battle Brewing Over SEC Funding

While it may not be on the level of the historic protests in the Middle East or the budget battle playing out in Wisconsin, the funding "war" being waged against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 11:45 AM by Gary Larkin

Filed under: Corporate Governance, SEC enforcement, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

The Case for Professional Boards

If you want to improve governance at a corporation, do you need professional directors? Did SOX merely add a layer of legal obligations of board, and do little to improve the quality of those serving as directors? Robert C. Pozen makes the case in The...

Published Tue, Feb 1 2011 6:07 PM by Doug Cornelius

Filed under: Corporate Governance, directors & officers

Wikileaks Episode Should be Wake-Up Call for Companies

If you are a director on a U.S. public company, you probably had a queasy feeling in your stomach when you heard about Wikileaks' potential next target: corporate America. Let's face it. If there were to be a data dump of corporate e-mails, documents...

Published Tue, Jan 18 2011 12:08 PM by Gary Larkin

Filed under: Corporate Governance, Wikileaks

Triennial, Annual Favorites for Say on Pay Frequency Vote

Triennial, biennial, or annual. What will it be? That's the question public companies will be answering this coming proxy season when it comes to the frequency of Say on Pay votes, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act. The early returns are mixed as...

Published Wed, Jan 12 2011 9:22 AM by Gary Larkin

Filed under: Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation

Some More Top Issues Lists for 2011

With the first week of the New Year just about over, I have come upon three more top issues lists for directors and management in 2011. Consider this an addendum to my Dec. 21 post . One list comes from the very prolific and opinionated Norman Marks of...

Published Mon, Jan 10 2011 9:10 AM by Gary Larkin

Filed under: Corporate Governance, directors & officers

Board Diversity Progress Measured by Calendar, Not Clock

Let's face it. Real progress can't be measured in seconds, minutes or days. When it comes to diversity of public company boards, you would be looking at years or decades. If progress is defined as moving forward to another phase, then U.S. public...

Published Mon, Dec 6 2010 3:38 PM by Gary Larkin

Filed under: Corporate Governance, diversity, directors qualifications

Frequency Becoming Focus of Say on Pay Battle

The battle over advisory Say on Pay votes at public companies, which will be in full force this spring, is coming down to frequency, rather than what's in the plans themselves. In the last week alone, the topic has been hotly debated in a Governance...

Published Fri, Nov 19 2010 8:55 AM by Gary Larkin

Filed under: Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, say-on-pay

Board Trends Survey

The executive search firm Spencer Stuart recently released its annual study of the state of corporate governance among the S&P 500 ( H/T BusinessWeek/Bloomberg ). The 2010 Spencer Stuart study includes information on a host of issues including board...

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 10:30 AM by Brian JM Quinn

Filed under: Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation

Basel Report on Corporate Governance Better Read for Boards Than Standards

As world leaders prepare for the G-20 Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 11-12, the Basel III capital reform plan will be a big part of the discussion as countries continue to figure out how to best deal with fallout from the 2008-2009 financial crisis...

Published Fri, Oct 29 2010 4:26 PM by Gary Larkin

Filed under: Corporate Governance, international banking reforms, Basel III capital reform plan, G-20 Summit

New York Stock Exchange and Corporate Governance

Last week, the NYSE Euronext released the final report of the NYSE-sponsored Commission on Corporate Governance . The report identified 10 core governance principles. They cover the scope of the board's authority, management's responsibility for...

Published Thu, Sep 30 2010 1:03 PM by Doug Cornelius

Filed under: Corporate Governance, New York Stock Exchange

Be the Mayor, not the Sheriff

Are you getting in the way or helping to move your organization forward? Inevitably, compliance professional will need to step in and stop an activity or start a discipline process for someone who broke the rules. That does not have to be the primary...

Published Wed, Aug 11 2010 3:29 PM by Doug Cornelius

Filed under: Corporate Governance, compliance officer

How Does Your Hotline Compare?

Does your hotline ring off the hook with complaints? Is it silent? Are the complaints mostly that the employee thinks his boss is a jerk? The Network and BDO Consulting published their 2010 Corporate Governance and Compliance Hotline Benchmarking Report...

Published Tue, Aug 10 2010 8:05 AM by Doug Cornelius

Filed under: Corporate Governance, corporate compliance, corporate governance and compliance hotline

Dodd-Frank, The SEC and Corporate Governance

The federal securities laws have traditionally focused largely on disclosure, leaving corporate governance to state law. Nevertheless, Dodd-Franks expands the Commission's role in corporate governance in three key areas. This is consistent with the...

Published Wed, Aug 4 2010 2:36 PM by Thomas O. Gorman

Filed under: Corporate Governance, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act, risk committee

The FCPA and Tone at the Top

Both the US Sentencing Guidelines and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Good Practice Guidance on Internal Controls, Ethics, and Compliance consider one of the key items for a best practices compliance program to be the...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 8:00 AM by Thomas Fox

Filed under: Corporate Governance, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FCPA, corporate culture

Capitol Hill Takes on Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance

The current global financial crisis, government bailouts and the ensuing contraction of the credit markets have led to calls for increased regulation and government oversight of Wall Street. The U.S. Senate weighed in on the debate when, on May 20, 2010...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 8:26 AM by Cynthia M. Krus

Filed under: Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation

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Wikileaks Episode Should be Wake-Up Call for Companies

Triennial, Annual Favorites for Say on Pay Frequency Vote

Some More Top Issues Lists for 2011

Board Diversity Progress Measured by Calendar, Not Clock

Frequency Becoming Focus of Say on Pay Battle

Board Trends Survey

Basel Report on Corporate Governance Better Read for Boards Than Standards

New York Stock Exchange and Corporate Governance

Be the Mayor, not the Sheriff

How Does Your Hotline Compare?

Dodd-Frank, The SEC and Corporate Governance

The FCPA and Tone at the Top

Capitol Hill Takes on Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance