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Category: Investor Relations

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AI Borrowing Goes to Plaid

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An AI researcher let it slip last week that the technology we’re all embracing could wipe out humanity in the next decade. Bright side: if that came to pass, it would render any concerns expressed in this blog post largely moot. If you want...

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Back to the Ledger: The SEC Stands Up a Dedicated Accounting Fraud Unit

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The SEC has created dedicated accounting-fraud teams before. It did so in 2013 with a Financial Reporting and Audit Task Force, and again this past spring with a “SOX group” that arrived with little more fanfare than a pair of job listings....

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Five Potential Impacts of Semiannual SEC Reporting

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If you don’t run a public company, the idea of shifting from quarterly to semiannual financial reporting may sound like a classic case of a solution in search of a problem. There was nothing obviously broken about the system that generated...

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SpaceX Goes Where No Issuer Has Gone Before

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Elon Musk has never had much patience for corporate governance conventions, and SpaceX’s anticipated IPO only underlines the point. According to a Reuters report, SpaceX’s bylaws would require shareholders to “irrevocably and unconditionall...

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Companies Take Different Routes on Tariff Adjustments to Exec Pay

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Tariffs didn’t just hit company earnings last year. They also hit the performance metrics that determine executive bonuses. This has forced compensation committees to make uncomfortable calls about whether to ignore the impact of tariffs in...

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