On April 16, 2015, the council of ministers (Council) for the proposed cooperative capital markets regulatory system (Cooperative System) announced that the Cooperative System is now expected to be operational by the fall of 2016, one year later than originally anticipated.
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Funding requirements for projects and infrastructure, oil and gas, power and electricity, renewables, commercial real estate development, automotive, aviation and general corporate and commercial, coupled with the financial regulatory changes
resulting from the global credit crisis have resulted in traditional and non-traditional
borrowers searching for alternative capital structures.
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On May 7, in remarks before a financial reporting conference in NYC, the SEC's Chief Accountant, James Schnurr, signaled the end of the SEC's efforts to converge International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with U.S. GAAP.
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When "Compensation Actually Paid" is Not Compensation Actually Paid and "Company Financial Performance" May be Unrelated to Company Financial Performance.
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It's been five years since the Dodd-Frank law required that companies let investors vote on their executive pay practices. The idea, lawmakers said, was to give shareholders a chance to sound off when compensation plans are not in their best interests.
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Sustainability - social, ethical and environmental - is becoming financially material. Companies that aren't making it a key part of their investor relations strategy could be risking more than they know.
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On May 14, 2015, the securities regulators of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia announced that they have implemented, or expect to implement, a crowdfunding prospectus and registration exemption intended to facilitate the ability of Canadian start-ups to raise capital.
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Stephen Davis, associate director of the Harvard Law School Programs on Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors: We're now seeing a greater instance of mainstream investors liaising with activists.
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"There is virtually no support to have the SEC mandate IFRS for all registrants," James Schnurr tells accountants.
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