EP: Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability and Sustainable Corporate Governance – ecoDa Eu Alert 42

It includes,

  1.  EP: Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability and Sustainable Corporate Governance
  2. EU Ministers: Women on boards
  3. EC Sustainable CG: Response from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
  4. EP: MEPS quizzed EU financial authorities on the Wirecard case
  5. Paper: What should corporations do? (Project Syndicate)
  6. Report: The Swedish Corporate Governance Board
  7. Event: Corporate Governance for sustainable and competitive European companies
  8. Event: Guberna Directors’ Day
  9. ecoDa’s News

EC : Responses to the EC Impact Assessment on sustainable CG – ecoDa EU Alert 41

It included:

  1. EP and EC: Topics related to Corporate Governance discussed this week at the Plenary
  2. EC : Responses to the EC Impact Assessment on sustainable CG
  3. OECD : Developing sustainable finance definitions and taxonomies
  4. Paper: Slow progress on gender diversity in boardroom (Minerva Analytics)
  5. Paper: FRC revamps UK Stewardship Code with new report obligation (Minerva Analytics)
  6. Survey: IFA/ Governance at the time of the Covid-19 crisis
  7. Report: CGLytics DAX Report
  8. Event: Global Responsibility of Global Enterprises
  9. MEPs – Blackrock case
  10. ecoDa’s news

Report on Common Shareholding in Europe – ecoDa EU Alert 40

It includes:

  1.  EP: Hearings of Commissioner-designate Mairead McGuinness
  2. EC: Members of the Platform on Sustainable Finance revealed
  3. EBA: 2021 Working Programme
  4. EC: Report on Common Shareholding in Europe
  5. IFRS Consultation Paper on Sustainability Reporting
  6. Article: Milton Friedman’s shareholder doctrine is dead
  7. Report: OECD – Sustainable and Resilient Finance
  8. Webinar Recording: Disruption and Purpose – the role of business in society
  9. ecoDa’s news

Action Plan to boost the European Union’s Capital Markets Union – ecoDa EU Alert

It includes:

  1. EP: Corporate Governance topics discussed
  2. . EC: Action Plan to boost the European Union’s Capital Markets Union
  3. EC: A new Digital Finance Package
  4. . ESMA: Proposals to help prevent and detect withholding tax reclaim schemes
  5. EP: New subcommittee on tax matters
  6. Germany: Finance Minister endorses country-by-country reporting of MNE tax information
  7. ECGI Working Paper: Corporations, Directors’ Duties and Public/Private Divide
  8. Papers: A Resilience Framework for Catastrophe Risks
  9. Report: The annual Female FTSE Board Report
  10. Report: Risks in 2021
  11. . ecoDa’s news

Draft Report on Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability- ecoDa EU Alert

 

It includes:

  1. EP: Draft Report on Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability
  2. 25th European Corporate Governance Conference: White paper tr
  3. EBA: Calls on the EC to establish a single rulebook on fighting money laundering and terrorist financing
  4. SMEunited: SME test should be reviewed
  5. CEOs urging the European Commission to set higher 2030 emissions reduction targets US: Investors group urges
  6. SEC to reopen proxy rules comment period
  7. Event: EBF High-level public dialogue: European Banking beyond the pandemic
  8. Event: European Commission High-level conference on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing
  9. ecoDa’s News

Report: What is needed for progress towards comprehensive corporate reporting – ecoDa EU Alert

 

It includes:

  1. EP: Ongoing debates on Corporate Governance topics
  2. European Commission Reshuffle (Cicero note)
  3. EBA: Consultation to revise its Guidelines on internal governance
  4. EFRAG: Appoints members and Chair for the European Lab Project Task Force
  5. Report: What is needed for progress towards comprehensive corporate reporting
  6. Report from Institut Montaigne: Responsible Capitalism: An Opportunity for Europe
  7. Report: From policy to practice: Testing the EU Taxonomy
  8. Report: ecoDa & Mazars joint publication “Times to put sustainability at the heart of business”
  9. Event: 26th European Corporate Governance Conference
  10. Event: Global Supply Chains – Global Responsibility Conference
  11. ecoDa’s News

 

 

 

EBF Statement: Banks underline need for smooth implementation of SRD II – ecoDa EU Alert

 

It Includes:

  1. EP: Corporate Governance topics discussed at the European Parliament this week
  2. EP: Ongoing Developments (Liability of companies for environmental changes)
  3. EBF Statement: Banks underline need for smooth implementation of SRD II
  4. EuropeanIssuers: Feedback to the EC draft directive on small and mid-cap issuers research and on fixed-income instruments
  5. US: The Securities and Exchange Commission’s new decisive deregulatory actions
  6. Event: Brussels Economic Forum 2020
  7. Event: The ECGI’s Webinar on Corporate Purpose
  8. ecoDa’s news

 

 

Papers: Enacting purpose within modern corporation – ecoDa EU Alert

 

It includes:

  1. EP: Ongoing developments (Due diligence, Sustainable CG, Wirecard Case)
  2. EP: Studies of interest
  3. EBA’s response to the EC’s Action Plan to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing
  4. Papers: Enacting purpose within modern corporation
  5. Papers: PRI’s study on why and how investors should act on human rights
  6. Event: the 26th European Corporate Governance Conference
  7. Event: The 6th Climate Finance Day
  8. ecoDa’s news

 

 

EC: Summary Report of the consultation on the revision of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive – ecoDa EU Alert

 

It includes:

  1. EC: Study on Directors’ Duties and sustainable corporate governance and New Consultation on the impact assessment
  2. EC: Summary Report of the consultation on the revision of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive
  3. EP: Due diligence in supply chain
  4. UK: The Financial Reporting Council’s call for participants in a new Project Lab on corporate disclosures on stakeholders
  5. USA: Business lobbies press for laws on boards’ diversity
  6. Papers: EY identifies 8 priorities for Boards in 2020
  7. Papers: New ECGI Working Paper on the Global Diffusion of Stewardship Codes
  8. Papers: The role of artificial intelligence in shaping the future of corporate governance
  9. Events: OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investments
  10. Events: 2020 EC Internal Audit Services Conference
  11. ecoDa’s news

 

 

Joint ESAs consultation paper on ESG disclosures – ecoDa EU Alert

 

It includes:

  1. ECB may ask banks to withhold dividends for longer
  2. Joint ESAs consultation paper on ESG disclosures
  3. European Court of Auditors recommends that Commission review methods of monitoring EU climate-related expenditure
  4. Volkswagen risks diesel claims across EU after top court ruling
  5. The Wirecard case raises several concerns
  6. Frank Bold’s position on the revision of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive
  7. Summary report of ecoDa’s series of webinars on the impacts of Covid-19 on board members
  8. The Maltese Institute of Directors organises a webinar on the centrality of Corporate Governance in the country’s economic system
  9. ecoDa’s news