The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has signaled a meaningful procedural shift for the 2025–2026 proxy season, particularly around the handling of shareholder proposals under Rule 14a-8. In late 2025, the SEC indicated it may scale back its traditional “no-action letter” process, meaning companies can exclude
March 2026 delivered one of the sharpest governance enforcement cases in recent UK memory. The FCA fined John Wood Group PLC £12.9m for publishing misleading financial results across 2022, 2023, and the first half of 2024. This was a period during which the Aberdeen-headquartered engineering consultancy was haemorrhaging
The governance community has spent three years treating AI as a boardroom conversation topic. That phase is closing. Fewer than 40% of boards have sufficient AI understanding to provide effective oversight, yet CEOs now rank AI investment as their top priority. The 2026 mandate for directors: move from AI strategy
