By
Neil Hodge2024-07-19T13:28:00
Within two weeks of gaining power, the U.K.’s newly elected Labor government has confirmed its intention to beef up the audit regulator and strengthen corporate governance.
In Wednesday’s King’s Speech—which sets out the government’s legislative agenda for the next Parliament—Prime Minister Keir Starmer added the Draft Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill to the list of 40 bills the government hopes to pass.
At the core of the draft legislation is the government’s aim to transform the current regulator, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), into the Audit, Reporting, and Governance Authority (ARGA).
2025-09-10T23:26:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Delays to the U.K.’s Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill and creation of the ARGA regulator have sparked criticism. On Sept. 8, 66 MPs sent a letter to the Prime Minister urging reforms be returned to the Parliamentary agenda.
2024-11-26T17:29:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
French defense and aviation contractor Thales Group is under investigation by authorities in the U.K. and France for allegedly participating in bribery and corruption.
2024-08-08T17:06:00Z By Adrianne Appel
The Financial Reporting Council ordered a unit Ernst & Young UK to pay 296,000 pounds (U.S. $376,000) over the firm’s 2021 audit of Russia mining group Evraz.
2025-10-27T20:16:00Z By Adrianne Appel
California has delayed the release of draft greenhouse gas reporting rules for businesses until early 2026, the California Air Resources Board said.
2025-10-27T19:06:00Z By Neil Hodge
New rules that have recently come into effect across the EU will allow for greater transfers of data between companies, though experts fear the changes could conflict with Europe’s strict privacy legislation, which protects personal information.
2025-10-24T18:05:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Nine states are collaborating to write and enforce comprehensive data privacy laws, in an effort to protect consumers across jurisdictions and due to the absence of a broad, federal privacy law.
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