- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
As if the process for excluding shareholder proposals wasn’t confusing enough, now the Supreme Court could weigh in. Trinity Wall Street has petitioned it to review a 2014 appellate court ruling, which found that a proposal requiring that Walmart’s board review the retailer’s policy on gun sales encroached upon “ordinary ...
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Image: Companies preparing for proxy season face a profound change in how the SEC views the exclusion of shareholder proposals. New guidance on that point is decidedly pro-shareholder and makes a confusing landscape even more so. “This was an early Christmas gift, wrapped up in a bow” for activist investors, ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission ordered the owner of Rimar Capital and a board member of its holding company to pay nearly $524,000 in penalties for defrauding investors with false and misleading statements about its use of artificial intelligence.
Among the enforcement actions issued by the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in August, two banks were separately penalized for deficiencies in anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance and board oversight.
