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Essential Corporate News – Week ending 11 July 2025
On 1 July 2025, the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) published three new board committee guides to accompany the QCA Environmental and Social Guide published in December 2024.
Global | Publication | September 8, 2017
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On September 1, 2017, the European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) published an updated version of its Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Q&As.
ESMA has added a new Q&A on market soundings and two new Q&As on insider lists:
In addition Q&A 6.1, which considers the requirement in Article 16(2) of MAR for persons professionally arranging transactions to maintain systems and procedures to detect and report suspicious orders and transactions, has been amended in order to clarify the scope of Article 16 of MAR (Prevention and detection of market abuse).
On September 4, 2017 the Investment Association (IA) reported that its call for companies to stop quarterly reporting is being heeded, with the number of FTSE100 and 250 companies issuing quarterly reports since October 2016 declining by 19 and 25 per cent, respectively.
In a bid to discourage companies from engaging in short-term behaviour, such as managing the business to meet quarterly targets rather than developing their long term strategies, in November 2016 the IA called on companies to stop issuing quarterly reports and earnings guidance.
A table included in the IA’s press release shows that in October 2016 a total of 70 FTSE100 companies reported quarterly, but only 57 did so by August 2017. Meanwhile 111 FTSE250 companies reported quarterly in October 2016, compared with 83 in August 2017.
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On 1 July 2025, the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) published three new board committee guides to accompany the QCA Environmental and Social Guide published in December 2024.
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In the two years since our last climate litigation update, the prevalence and variety of global climate litigation around the world has continued to increase.
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Selon un rapport conjoint du Bureau du surintendant des institutions financières (BSIF) et de l’Agence de la consommation en matière financière du Canada (ACFC), environ 70 % des institutions financières fédérales prévoient utiliser l’IA d’ici 2026 .
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