Janet Yellen Calls for a Global Minimum Tax on Companies. Could it Happen?
By: Economist April 6, 2021 CORPORATE TAXATION is one of the thorniest issues in international economic policy. Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden’s treasury secretary, and a former head of the Federal Reserve, is duly weighing in. On April 5th she grabbed the attention of the occupants of corner offices worldwide with a speech to […]
Nasdaq-ICGN Conference: The Governance of Big Tech
CFU’s chair, Di, presented last week at the Nasdaq-ICGN conference, highlighting systematic issues influencing the social impacts of tech, and the Digital Age as a holistic structural shift. She also contributed to governance issues pertaining to technology companies, their boards and the boards of all companies going through digital transformation. She concluded with remarks […]
Trust In Tech Craters
By: Axios March 31, 2021 Trust in tech — including companies specializing in AI, VR, 5G and the internet of things — fell all around the world last year, the Edelman Trust Barometer found in a massive survey of 31,000 people in 27 countries. Driving the news: The study, provided first to Axios, […]
Bonus Reforms ‘Biggest Shake-Up Of UK Corporate Governance In Years’
By: The Guardian March 18, 2021 The government plans to make it easier to claw back bonuses paid to executives of failed companies in what is being billed as the biggest shake-up of Britain’s corporate governance rules in decades, with ministers vowing to target negligent auditors and rogue directors. Part of a sweeping […]
MEPs Back Law to Hold Firms to Account for Environment and Human Rights Abuses
By: The Guardian March 10, 2021 Big majority in EU parliament vote for corporate due diligence along entire supply chains, which will include UK businesses The EU took a step closer to holding companies to account for environmental damage and human rights abuses committed by their subsidiaries and suppliers overseas, with a vote […]
The Governance of Big Tech
March 23, 2021 10:40 – 11:40 Plenary 1: Big Tech: Risks & Rewards Our chair Di, will be contributing to the discussion on how technology offers corporations a new dimension of tools that could enhance their ability to conduct business efficiently and aid them in activities which strengthen their corporate governance. However a […]
Big Tech Companies Using Lobbyists to Engage With Biden Administration
By: Fox Business January 22, 2021 WASHINGTON — Big technology companies are bracing for a new administration and new scrutiny of their businesses with a time-tested strategy: opening their pocketbooks. Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. topped all other U.S. companies in federal lobbying expenditures last year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of the most […]
House Democrats Reintroduce Bill to Reduce Lobbyist Influence
By: The Hill January 13, 2023 Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) and Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), the chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, have reintroduced a bill to reduce the influence of lobbyists and to close the so-called revolving door. The bill, the Executive Branch Conflict of Interest Act, was first introduced by the late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) […]
Watchdog: Corporations, Trade Groups Gave $170M to Republicans who Objected to Election Results
By: The Hill January 13, 2021 Corporations and industry trade associations have contributed $170 million collectively to the campaigns of the 147 GOP lawmakers who voted to challenge the 2020 election results, according to a new report from progressive watchdog group Public Citizen. Nineteen political action committees (PACs) of corporations and trade groups have […]