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Category: Rules & Regs

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Intelligize Report: Companies Avoid Revealing Human Capital Metrics

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When the Securities and Exchange Commission formulated its new rule on human capital disclosure, it put into place the regulatory equivalent of the honor system. Instead of requiring public companies to reveal hard numbers about their workf...

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Reg FD Comes for AT&T

Reg FD Comes for AT&T

Reg FD Comes for AT&T

The latest TV advertising campaign for AT&T features two men – an existing subscriber and a new customer – squaring off in one of the company’s stores. They’re jockeying to get the best offer on a smartphone, but the punchline is that t...

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Controversial Lending Rule from OCC Could Be DOA

Controversial Lending Rule from OCC Could Be DOA

Controversial Lending Rule from OCC Could Be DOA

On his last day as the acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Brian Brooks pulled the banking equivalent of taking a pin from a grenade, tossing it casually over his shoulder, and walking away from the building....

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ESG Playbook Offers Proxy-Season Tips

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Black Lives Matter. Raging wildfires. A deadly pandemic. A bitter election. The issues dominating American life in 2020 related closely to environmental, social, and governance topics. The same could be said of the 2020 proxy season, during...

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First Wave of Companies File Under Revised Reg S-K

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One of the big stories in corporate governance in 2020 has been the changes to Regulation S-K. In an effort to reduce the compliance burden and make it easier for investors to wade through corporate filings, the SEC pared down some disclosu...

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