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Category: ESG

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Justice Department to Enhance Corporate Criminal Enforcement Efforts

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As the Biden administration presses for tougher white-collar compliance enforcement, the federal government appears to be using a classic carrots-and-sticks approach in a new bid to root out corporate crime. First, the sticks. Deputy Attorn...

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Conservative Politicians Unite in Attacks on Corporate ESG Initiatives

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With the 2022 midterm elections just weeks away, many Republican politicians’ campaigns are zeroing in on corporate ESG programs as objects of derision. They’re painting companies’ environmental, social and governance initiatives as stealth...

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SEC Raises the Stakes for Corporate Whistleblowers

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Get ready for more corporate whistleblowers to come out of the woodwork. At least that’s the takeaway from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest changes to its whistleblower program. In an effort to fortify investor protections, t...

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Universal Proxy Cards Present Opportunities for Activist Investors

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When voters went to the polls in the 2020 presidential election, they probably saw Democratic nominee Joe Biden and the Republican incumbent Donald Trump listed on the ballot. A handful of third-party candidates like Libertarian Jo Jorgense...

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Chinese Companies Delist from U.S. Exchange as Audit Conflict Persists

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Hundreds of thousands of people from the United States travel to Taiwan in any given year, according to the island nation’s tourism bureau. For the average U.S. tourist, a stopover there during a tour of Asian countries wouldn’t seem unusua...

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