Coalition plans to control boardroom pay could hand too much power to maverick shareholders and will prove intolerable to boardrooms and investors, warns Confederation of British Industry president Sir Roger Carr.
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Lisa Buckingham’s blog: I could not believe any girl between 11 and 17 would not lack a degree of self esteem
Monday, April 2nd, 2012Before we all fall into a bout of hand wringing about the Dove confidence survey, we would do well to think a little bit more critically about what these ‘results’ purport to say.
We need more women filling middle ranks
Monday, March 12th, 2012There will be backslapping over the appointment of more women to the boards of British companies when Cranfield University’s FTSE Female index on Tuesday shows that in the year since Lord Davies published his report, the proportion of women directors has risen from 12.5 per cent to about 15 per cent.
George Osborne needs a convincing strategy for the Budget
Sunday, March 11th, 2012George Osborne may find it hard to resist giving his rather irritating smirk a little outing during the Budget speech next week.
Bob Diamond has truly lost his grip on reality
Monday, March 5th, 2012Earth calling Bob Diamond! Whatever planet the Barclays boss is on, he now appears so out of kilter with public opinion that it is not off beam to question whether he is becoming a liability for the bank and its shareholders. Diamond can hardly claim to be unaware of the £300m ruse the Revenue called ‘abusive’
Lisa Buckingham: Why are middle-aged white males the only ones making it through the FSA’s vetting process?
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012LORD Davies of Abersoch, author of the Government report into Women in the Boardroom, is correct to highlight the potentially ‘fatal’ interventions by the Financial Services Authority into top-level appointments at leading financial services companies.
Fraudbuster’s new dawn hit by failed raids
Sunday, February 26th, 2012Staging dawn raids in a blaze of publicity was always going to be high risk. And for Richard Alderman, the boss of the Serious Fraud Office, a taste for crime-fighting in the public eye has rebounded horribly, with his agency having to issue a grovelling apology to its masters in Government, as well as to businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, whose premises it busted – wrongly, as it now turns out.
The Interview: Iconic City enforcer Margaret Cole
Monday, February 20th, 2012“Goodness! I really hope it was nothing to do with me being a woman.” The iconic City enforcer Margaret Cole on being overlooked for the top job at the FSA.
