Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – Mar 25, 2021
TSMC: How a Taiwanese Chipmaker Became a Linchpin of the Global Economy A fascinating look into shifting power within tech’s supply and value chains – and how they’re intersecting with political concerns and geopolitical priorities. As we recently discussed at the Eversheds Sutherland event (above), global jockeying is taking place in and via […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – Mar 18, 2021
MEPs Back Law to Hold Firms to Account For Environment and Human Rights Abuses More countries are passing laws, various regulators escalating requirements and stock exchange mandating on ‘material’ disclosures from corporates. What was kicked off by investors through ESG monitoring is now being solidified through laws and regulations. On the digital front, […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – Mar 11, 2021
Amazon Grapples With Shareholders Over Surveillance Tech Amazon is facing a barrage of ESG shareholder proposals. It does appear that there’s some overlap among them, even as it’s gratifying to see Amazon try to get ahead of the mooted demands. There are certainly complexities associated with the implementation of some of these items, and […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – Mar 4, 2021
Sunak to Reform Stock Market to Shore Up City of London’s Position Lord Hill’s report was published yesterday to great fanfare. It appears that his recommendations have achieved a prudent balance on a topic we follow actively: dual-class shares. We do see the necessity for founders to have some control in the early years […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – Feb 25, 2021
Facebook Strikes Deal to Restore News Sharing in Australia We’re not sure quite what Facebook’s board was thinking: they may have won the battle, but lost the war. Rep. David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat who heads a House subcommittee that has urged antitrust action against the company, wrote on Twitter: “If it is not […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – Feb 18, 2021
China Steps Up Online Controls With New Rule for Bloggers China is continuing to evolve the playbook for extreme censorship, and has progressed to controlling not only what its citizens have access to, and read, but increasingly, the “information production” part of the supply chain. This can’t end well, as private sector tech companies are […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – Feb 11, 2021
Amazon Must Not Interfere With US Union Effort, Say Investors We are delighted to see investors such as Folksam, Ohman Fonder and several other influential investors weigh in on this matter. While Amazon has the indubitable right to present the other side of the unionisation argument to its employees, it does have asymmetric power […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – Feb 4, 2021
Paykey Launches Trading Functionality to Compete With ‘Wild West’ App Market The Gamestop saga provides three key insights: a. There are a host of providers, claiming to ‘democratise’ financial access, while essentially providing unregulated access, to what looks a lot like a casino. These firms are heavily marketing to retail investors with little […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – Jan 28, 2021
Twitter’s Trump Ban Could Lead to Regulation Rethink, Says Hancock The debate between ‘free’ and ‘civil’ speech has been raging over the past 2 weeks, since Trump was banned from Twitter for life and suspended by several other platforms. At least the pretence that these platforms are not arbiters of what the public sees, […]