Compliance Archive

What is CDP’s main ESG focus and who does it serve? We focus on the E of ESG by asking companies, cities, states and regions to disclose their environmental impacts, approaches, commitments and mitigation efforts through our global environmental disclosure platform. We do this on behalf of investors and corporate and government buyers, as well as global networks of mayors, such as the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy. We al...

A new study highlights many companies’ increasing focus on ethics and its growing role within the work of compliance teams. Two thirds (66 percent) of chief ethics officers and chief compliance officers (CCOs) surveyed by KMPG identify ethics as one of the key regulatory and compliance obligations around which they plan to refine their efforts in 2019. By comparison, the other four top-rated areas – privacy, product safety, time and expense compliance and third-...

Corporate whistleblowers may have an easier decision to report concerns in-house with the full House of Representatives set to consider a bill that would expand the scope of their protections. If approved, HR 2515 would make clear that whistleblowers who raise concerns about alleged misconduct internally to their employers - but not to the SEC - are protected by the Dodd-Frank Act’s anti...

The SEC has given the go-ahead for a new US exchange – the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE). Designed for high-growth tech companies with long-term prospects and investors that understand startups, the San-Francisco-based LTSE has big ambitions: to allow startups to list on the public market while focusing on research, to let long-term investors cash in on fast-growing startups and to provide the tools to support both parties. It is arguably the second point...