

IiAS: COVID Relief and vaccinations set to dominate CSR spends this year
India Inc’s FY20 CSR spends continue the trend of being project driven; FY21 spends to be dominated by COVID-19 Summary findings The S&P...


Attending AGMs from home
As corporate India re-imagines the workplace post COVID-19, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs too would be well-placed in re-imagining...


Forensic Audits: When full disclosure is not better transparency
SEBI’s decision to amend the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulation 2020 (SEBI LODR) to compel disclosure on...


Boards focus on digital governance is long overdue
Boards overall, have been diffident to get their arms around things digital. In part this reluctance may be because the internet was not...


By Invitation - Board Level Succession Planning (Arun Duggal)
The Companies Act 2013, requires companies appoint independent directors for a five-year starting April 2014. In 2019, in most...


Investors’ signal that regulators must enforce board composition norms for PSEs
Institutional investors no longer have the patience for the lack of compliance by PSEs on board composition. In the 2020 voting season,...


India’s progress on the Corporate Governance agenda: An overview
Hetal Dalal, our President and COO, spoke at the International Corporate Governance Network’s (ICGN) Virtual Summit 2020, where she...


IL&FS: Never too big to fail
In this guest column Sandeep Hasurkar weaves extracts from his just published book on ILFS ‘Never too big to fail,’ with lessons the...


Preparing for another crisis
The pandemic provides boards and managements with the best experience to prepare for a crisis - even though the current one shows no...


Investors must rethink their equation with some promoters
Although investors have recently voted out the CEO of two banks, they have yet to take a stand on promoter CEOs in the corporate sector....