Mark Carney

Governance Watch - Issue 22

Governance Watch - Issue 22

Transparency

Good corporate governance requires transparency. In South Africa, the latest corporate governance code or King 1V, has put transparency at its heart. By contrast, we talk about transparency in corporate governance in the UK, but we keep coming up against walls of silence. Knocking on such a wall may well reveal that it is, in fact, a door. But it is firmly shut because the powers that be think that it’s “best.” 

Governance Watch - Issue 4

Governance Watch - Issue 4

An AGM For Workers

It certainly made the headlines in the Derby Telegraph as well as in Britain’s national newspapers. Employees at FTSE 100 engineering giant Rolls-Royce plc are to be given a chance to grill bosses about the company's recent performance. For the first time the firm, which has its civil aerospace and nuclear divisions in Derby, is set to hold an Annual General Meeting for its workers, which is likely to take place at Derby County's Pride Park Stadium in May, the paper reported.

Governance Watch

Governance Watch

Corporate Governance has been called ‘the very essence of a business.’ It can hit the media headlines in multiple ways – but few of them are likely to be beneficial to the business in question. Because by the time it has made the headlines, the odds are that corporate governance has failed at some level.

In Governance Watch we regularly bring you some of those recent headlines around governance, in order to raise an early flag for their wider implications for each listed business.