Despite the government’s u-turn on the primary legislation that was expected to be laid, there are plenty of other matters that are on boards’ minds, looking both inwards to the business and outwards to the expectations of government, regulators and stakeholders.

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• Ethics & Compliance and the Corporate Governance Code
  
• Corporate Governance: FRC publishes its updates to the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024
  
• 2024 Code - Internal Controls Declaration: What you need to know
  
• Executive Remuneration
• Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency (ECCT) act
• Minimum Standard for Audit Committees

The board’s role in helping an organisation respond to the risks it faces is key to helping it thrive and survive. Here we share our insights into risks and opportunities that organisations' face in an increasingly uncertain world.

Risk Transformation

• How to set up Enterprise Risk Management to drive competitive advantage
  

Risk Landscapes

• The risk landscape for renewables and power in 2023
• The risk landscape for the tech sector in 2023
• The risk landscape for financial services in 2023

IT Risk

• Is your risk landscape leaving you exposed?

ECCT Act

• Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency (ECCT) act

Global risk landscape

• Global Risk Landscape 2023

RHIZA

• How Rhiza can help with risk management

• The FRC publishes its 22/23 Annual Review of Corporate Reporting
• Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting
• Gender Pay Gap Reporting 2024

The dynamic between employer and employee has changed radically. Boards have an important role in supporting organisations with their response to shifting expectations of the employee/ employer relationship and in listening to their employee stakeholders. Furthermore successful organisations foster a culture that embraces good behaviours and those good behaviours begin in the boardroom. 

• Building a Resilient Organisational Culture
• Strategic Partnership: BDO & The Leadership Gallery
• AIM Directors Remuneration Report 2024
• Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting
• Executive Remuneration in FTSE-Listed Companies
• Successfully Embedding Corporate Culture

Boards cannot afford to ignore society’s increasing expectation that sustainability is integral to business strategy and also one of the board’s fiduciary duties.

Sector focus

• If ESG isn't on your board's agenda, it should be
• ESG in the shipping industry
• ESG Matters for Financial Services

Finance Function of the Future/CFOs

• Why do CFOs need to be on board with ESG & Sustainability?

Mid Market

• 2023… ESG and sustainability projections for mid-market businesses and organisations

Boards need to be confident that the organisation's regulatory burden is known, understood and addressed in all jurisdictions it operates in. Here we consider some of the principal regulations facing those operating in the UK.

Data Privacy

• Data protection news and trends
• Tiktok receives significant GDPR fine for mishandling childrens data
• The ICO's updated AI and Data Protection guidance
• Navigating the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act

Corporate Crimial Offences

• Corporate Criminal Offence: Top 10 FAQs
• Corporate Criminal Offences: a guide to preparing a defence

Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency (ECCT) act

• The Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence: Are you prepared?