The London Stock Exchange is a vibrant capital market which attracts issuers from all over the world, bringing companies with diverse corporate governance practices and norms into the UK listed landscape. The dominant mode of corporate governance in UK public companies has historically been...

Regulatory regimes for financial benchmarks have been introduced in the wake of benchmark manipulation in a number of non-equities markets. Although such regulatory responses introduce various measures to improve the governance processes relating to the production of financial benchmarks, this...

This article examines the driving forces for European Corporate Governance Regulation (ECGR) and argues that ECGR has moved from a gradual bottom-up approach based on learning from diversity to an approach that blends into harmonised capital markets regulation at EU level. The gradual bottom-up...

The proposed amendments to the EU Shareholders' Rights Directive purport to improve shareholder rights and powers in investee companies. In general, these initiatives provide minority shareholders with confidence in corporate governance and could be useful as a supply-side stimulating measure to...