At a glance: UK Governance & Risk

Our latest one-page guide for UK businesses brings together developments in the first quarter of this year. These include updates relevant to: 

• equity share issues and share capital authorities, 
• employees and workers, 
• maintaining market transparency and integrity, 
• corporate reporting, 
• investor stewardship, 
• climate and ESG issues, 
• the encouragement of greater diversity in the workplace and amongst business leaders, 
• payment practices reporting and the protection of smaller suppliers,
• the removal of restrictions on banker bonus payments,
• the evolution of the FRC into the new ARGA regulator,
• the latest restrictions on doing business with Russia, and
• the removal of EU-derived law from the UK post-Brexit.

For more discussion of key governance topics and practical pointers for boards and GCs, see also our annual Issues for Boards publication.