Quality Control: what IR can learn from ISO certification
‘We’re ISO certified!’ It’s a message proud companies typically plaster everywhere – on posters, banners, brochures, news releases...
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Regulation Archive
Disclosure of risk management slammed
By all accounts, being a risk manager in the run-up to the credit crunch was a thankless task. Doing your job properly seems to...
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M&A focus: deal-making in a downturn
CompletedDeal-making in a downturn adds more value than bull market acquisitions, according to a recent survey by the Boston...
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Banking on the state
China’s Deng Xiaoping signaled the end of statist orthodoxy when he said he didn’t care whether a cat was black or white, as long...
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Box of tricks
One corporate finance maneuver that has UK investors and shareholders hot under the collar recently is the cash box transaction...
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Speculator: A hair cut on Wall Street
As I sat having my hair cut in the salon in Grand Central Terminal recently, I asked my barber where all the affluent customers...
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Wolfson fined for following IR agency advice
IR services firm Makinson Cowel l is struggling to maintain its reputation after its client Wolfson Microelectronics was fined by...
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What happens when Googlebot gets it wrong
It sounds like the plot of a science fiction film: highly intelligent robots prowl the land, wreaking havoc and leaving a trail of...
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Seoul purpose: from family ownership to foreign investment in South Korea
South Korea is a country that owes a significant amount of its rapid development to the chaebol that dominate its corporate...
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Pressure on IR in the Middle East
Despite vast oil reserves, the Middle East is steadily running out of the black gold that has supported it so well for so long...
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