Boardroom Archive

More than 45 percent of investor relations (IR) professionals globally say messaging in 2022 was the most pressing issue their company’s board, CEO and CFO sought their advice on. The other top two issues executives turned to IR for are insights on investor and market sentiment (40 percent) and shareholder targeting and engagement (23 percent). This is according...

‘Some say you can use artificial intelligence. [But] I think we would like to have some people. We want those people around the boardroom table to be the heart, the mind, the conscience of the business,’ says Helle Bank Jorgensen, CEO and founder of Competent Boards. In this episode of the Governance Matters podcast, editor-in-chief James Beech sits down with Jorgensen to talk about preparing boards for the challenges that lie ahead. ‘When we talk about...

Companies will be affected in a variety of ways by the receivership of Signature Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and any financial institution faced with a similar crisis. Companies may face both liquidity and solvency challenges, and the resulting constraints may lead to difficult decisions, including prioritizing the uses of limited cash. Board oversight of resulting decision-making will be implicated in many cases. Senior executives are advised to maintain a regular di...

– Reuters (paywall) reported that according to data from ISS Corporate Solutions, racial and ethnic minorities now hold a fifth of board seats at Russell 3000 companies, up from 12 percent in 2019, but remain under-represented. The increase comes amid growing pressure on US companies from investors to a...