Dec 28, 2020
This article reviews a recent webinar held by The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (the Institute) exploring the implications of the shift away from shareholder primacy as an underpinning philosophy of corporate governance. In August 2019, the Business...
Dec 28, 2020
This first part of the Champion Paper of the latest Corporate Governance Paper Competition held by The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (the Institute) provides a cost-benefit analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting. Gone are the...
Dec 28, 2020
Jeremy Birch, Hannah Cassidy and Kyle Wombolt, Herbert Smith Freehills, warn that the private sector is at risk of failing to prioritise modernising compliance and investigations functions just as regulators become increasingly technologically sophisticated....
Dec 28, 2020
Hoi Tak Leung, Counsel, Digital Economy, and Patrick Phua, Practice Head, Asia Global Loans and Global Markets, Ashurst, outline some key points of the first draft of the Mainland’s Personal Information Protection Law. On 21 October 2020, the National People’s...
Dec 28, 2020
Xavier Garralda, Associate, Vistra Hong Kong; and Effie Vasilopoulos, Partner, and David Kalani Lee, Counsel, Sidley Austin, highlight the features of Hong Kong’s new Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance designed to boost Hong Kong’s standing as an asset management and...
Dec 28, 2020
What is your role as a governance professional? ‘I am the Corporation Secretary of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd and Regional Head of Corporate Governance for HSBC in Asia-Pacific.’ What was your career path to your current role? ‘I joined a...
Dec 28, 2020
What is your role as a governance professional? ‘As an educator, I guess my role is like a time traveller, bridging the past and the present and taking the present into the future. Please allow me to explain. What is knowledge, and in this particular context, business...
Dec 28, 2020
Back to basics – Reframing corporate purpose Click the cover image below to view or download a pdf of the full...
