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A shareholder has submitted a proposalto Mizuho Financial Group that would require it to discloseabout its policy(if it has any)and any actions taken to train its own board members.Mizuho's own translation follows:
Proposal 7: Partial amendment to the Articles of Incorporation (Concerning disclosure of policy and results of officer training)
Boardmember.com has put many useful videos – short lectures or interview – on its web site. They span a broad range of categories. Not all are pertinent to boards in Japan, but many of them are, or the core concepts are. (You can select from the categories on the right.)
Transparency International UK ( http://www.transparency.org.uk/) has released a very useful report on this topic. Introductory excerpts:
Purpose of this guidance: Anti-bribery due diligence can help purchasers to manage their investment risk in transactions more effectively. However, it is often not undertaken, neglected, or allocated insufficient time and resources. A recent survey found that:
Inaugural address by Mijntje Lückerath-Rovers of Nyenrode Business University.Abstract:How, without switching to increasing degrees of legislation with hard controls, do we nevertheless provide direction to desirable conduct in the boardroom and thus to more effective corporate governance?
22.26% of shareholders of Deutsche Bank viewed the situation from the same perspective as Hermes and VIP ( counter-motions ) and denied the Deutsche Bank Supervisory Board discharge, as a payback for its disorganized leadership. Among the supporters were (alongside many family offices around the globe and many retail shareholders in Germany) primarily:
（From the Brookings Institution's web site;to see the video, access the link below) – ” The individuals and organizations who own shares in corporations have changed radically over the past 50 years. Today the household sector holds few direct shares in corporate equities – and a significant majority of stocks are owned by institutional investors, including […]
Stephen Davis, Nonresident Senior Fellow regarding Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and a much-acclaimed author, Professor, and commentator on governance issues, has written a brilliant analysisthat pinpionts what ailscorporate governance in this modern era we have been entering (without realizing it) for some decades now. The paper can be downloadede at the link below
http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/06/01-shareholder-davis
Competia has compiled a list of the mostinfluential experts on Twitter discussing corporate governance. The full results are shown in this link, along with some analysis that shows there aquite respectable community discussing corporate governancissues has formed on Twitter.
http://competia.com/who-is-the-most-influential-corporate-governance-tweeter-in-2/
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The following entry appeared as part of GovernanceMetrics International’s GMI Blog. GMI is the leading independent provider of global corporate governance and ESG ratings and research. Corporate stakeholders – including leading investors, insurers, auditors, regulators and others – use GovernanceMetrics services to identify and monitor risks related to non-financial measures covering key environmental, social, governance and accounting risk factors.