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Tag: ESG

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Human Capital: The SEC’s Next Disclosure Frontier

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The Securities and Exchange Commission this year proposed new rules regarding corporate disclosures of environmental performance to great fanfare. A less-heralded ESG-related proposal also seems to be in the works, as the agency is working...

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FASB Begins Process of Setting Accounting Standards for Environmental Reporting

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Summer is the season for projects. As day-to-day life slows down for a few months, the most industrious among us often use the break to knock out nagging tasks that have been sitting on to-do lists. DIYers – those fanatics who spend their d...

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SEC Announces First ESG-Related Settlement

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The Securities and Exchange Commission continues to break new ground in the realm of environmental, social and governance regulation. After filing its first ESG-related lawsuit last month, the agency now has announced its first ESG-related...

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Proxy Season Brings Socially Motivated Shareholder Proposals from Both Sides of the Aisle

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It’s nothing new to see activists showing up at annual shareholder meetings to protest banks’ social agendas. In fact, they’re typically taking financial institutions to task for what they perceive as a lack of any agenda at all. Recently,...

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The Biggest Stories of Gary Gensler’s Year One at the SEC

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Gary Gensler celebrated his first full year on the job as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the SEC had a business-friendly reputation under predecessor Jay Clayton, Gensler was billed as a reformer. In addition to deali...

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