IR braces for WikiLeaks revelations
IR professionals learn to expect the unexpected and have crisis communications plans for everything from a product recall to a...
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Regulation Archive
Comment: The only ‘laws’ governing economics should be legal ones
Economics is indeed important, like history or politics, but it is as much art as science. Like phrenology and astrology, this...
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Owners’ lack of involvement dishonorable, says Monks
It seems only fair to ask Bob Monks – a previous IR Magazine Awards honoree – to apply his wisdom to IROs. Given that their...
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Comment: Government negligence to blame for Ireland's bailout
Spending money is fun, especially if it involves shoes. Like everyone, I have been known to ‘pop out for a few bits’, only to...
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SIFMA chair outlines market challenges
The financial market meltdown in 2008 begat regulatory reform in 2010 and John Taft, newly named chairman of the Securities...
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M&A focus: Canada may change review process
BHP Billiton’s bid for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp) is long dead, and the mining company appears to have moved...
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Agoracom settles with the OSC
Agoracom has settled with the Ontario Securities Commission ( OSC), bringing to a close the eight-month investigation into the...
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OSC meets to consider settlement with Agoracom
The Ontario Securities Commission ( OSC) is meeting today to consider a settlement with Agoracom, the online shareholder forum...
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Ballmer explains Microsoft share sale
Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, has put out a statement explaining the reasons behind his decision to sell approximately $1...
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Comment: Hands’ scapegoating won’t win him fans
As President Obama and his party lick their post-election-battering wounds, the president may be reflecting on the naivety of his...
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