Climate change is undeniably a significant and looming threat, impacting both the global environment and the stability of our economies and financial sector. There is an immediate and pressing need to comprehensively assess and effectively manage this multifaceted risk. Recently, we’ve seen a proactive response from regulatory bodies and standard-setting organizations worldwide, as they’ve taken… Read More »
Over the past year, three converging trends have put environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) topics at the center of yet another polarizing national debate. ESG Mainstreaming. The first is that investments that integrate ESG factors in some way have gone mainstream over the past decade. ESG is no longer limited to “sustainable, responsible, and impact”… Read More »
The debate on whether environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting should be mandatory is ongoing and of growing importance for regulators. Different institutions are working on new mandatory ESG disclosures. For example, the European Union passed the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in 2014 and is now preparing to adopt the European Sustainability Reporting Standards… Read More »
Enacted in October of 2000, Regulation Fair Disclosure (“Reg FD”) was designed to level the informational playing field among investors by ensuring that issuers publicly disclose material information to the entire market and not just to a select few. Specifically, Reg FD requires that if a firm privately discloses material information, they must promptly disseminate… Read More »
Do companies adapt their financial disclosures in accordance with the ease by which their stakeholders can access this information? To facilitate submission and dissemination of corporate filings, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Release No. 33-6977 from February 1993 mandated all SEC-registered firms to electronically submit all regulatory filings to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis,… Read More »
Financing investment in future growth is an important motivation for firms to go public. Newly public firms fund investments mainly through public equity, and facilitate growth by building new capacity through capital expenditure(capex) and innovation, as well as by acquiring the assets of other firms. There is a longstanding policy debate on whether lowering the disclosure burden on public firms through regulation can facilitate such… Read More »
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