The Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has fined CitiGroup $15 million for compliance and surveillance failures.

Tesco has been named the worst of the big four UK supermarkets at complying with a code designed to protect suppliers.

Volkswagen (VW) are to choose a replacement chief executive for Martin Winterkorn at a board meeting on Friday 25 September.

Japanese firm Hitachi has agreed to pay $19 million to the SEC to settle charges that it had made improper payments to South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress.

The ICSA, the Quoted Companies Alliance and GC100 published guidance on dealing codes under MAR and submitted these to the FCA and London Stock Exchange ("LSE") for review and comment.

Madeleine Cordes, Senior Manager at TMF Group, recently hosted a networking evening at ICSA for students interested in a company secretarial career.

With today's deadline, the Bank Holiday weekend could have given the term a 'long-weekend' the wrong meaning all together with thousands of re-registrations still to be made.

Good governance is essential to every organisation, regardless of sector, size or complexity.

Once the banking sector started to implode and the various scandals came to light there was a lot of talk about the 'culture' – a concept that is not always easy to define.

If governance is working well it's likely to not be seen

On 1 February our strategy to be relevant to a wider group of professionals working in governance, risk and compliance will take another important step forward.

On 2 June at the University of Manchester, ICSA's Northwest branch held an event to highlight the risks in the cyber environment and what we can do to protect ourselves and our organisations.

External insight is vital to improve the industry, but must be balanced

The 5th ICSA Scotland Conference was held in Edinburgh on 10 June this year.

Last year saw numerous governance scandals across all sectors. We take a look at what had people talking in 2015.

UK Sport's work on the Code for Sports Governance has been warmly received, and will both help athletes win and tackle abuse

On 20 March 2015 the Law Commission published its second consultation paper on various technical issues in charity law.

Governance professionals must do more to bring those outside the boardroom into the conversation, says Henry Ker.

Attitudes to ESG matters reflect a company's personality and culture

This has been a busy month – there have been a number of consultations to which we have responded and there are still more to go. Not least that on corporate transparency and register