Our Managing Director, Alissa Kole participated as a panelist in the University of Pennsylvania Conference Transforming in 2022: Cultural and Regulatory Responses, where she discussed recent regulatory announcements concerning Chinese firms listed in the United States.
Our Managing Director, Alissa Kole was recently interviewed by the GLobal Finance magazine on her views on the listing of Saudi family companies and the development of Tadawul more generally. The article is accessible here.
The United Nations has just released a compilation of reports “Towards an inclusive, SDG-Aligned Governance of Global Fintech Platforms“. One of which deals with corporate governance structure of BigFintechs and addresses how it can mitigate their social impact risks. We are pleased to share the results of this project and invite you to consult and dissiminate the report, developed by Aiaze Mitha of the UN and our Managing Director Alissa Kole.
GOVERN’s Managing Director Alissa Kole moderated the ICGN’s latest webinar on Stewardship and Sustainability featuring George Dallas and Mike Lubrano to launch their latest book on the subject specifically developed for institutional investors and asset managers. The recording of the webinar is available on the ICGN’s website.
Since the 1980s, when stock exchanges first began to demutualise and privatise, the race between large stock exchange groups has intensified, while the industry has and continues to witness ongoing consolidation both horizontally and increasingly vertically. In this op-ed out today in the LSE Business Review, our Managing Director examines the consequences of these dynamics and outlines her views on the potential role for emerging market stock exchanges which are poised to affect the hegemony of American stock exchanges in the post-COVID environment. Here
GOVERN is delighted to participate in the United Nations Dialogue on Digital Finance Governance organised by the UNDP and UNCDF to discuss a paper co-authored with the UN by our Managing Director on Governance of BigFinTech. The paper will be shortly released publicly and will lay the ground for future work on governance of Big Fin Tech by the industry and the international community.
The value but also the expectations of investor stewardship have risen exponentially after the Covid crisis. To explore trends in institutional investor stewardship, Governance Dialogues has in recent weeks hosted George Dallas of the ICGN, Jon Lukomnik of Sinclair Capital as well as Aiesha Mastagni of CalSTRS to discuss general trends and specific company-specific case studies such as the Exxon Mobil campaign which ended in a change of board directors, as advocated by a number of institutional investors. To tune in to these fascinating conversations, please visit our YouTube page and subscribe to our channel Here.
For the first time in modern history, Sino-American tensions are spilling in the capital market space, with the final announcement of de-listing of three Chinese telecoms from the New York Stock exchange earlier this month. Our Managing Director, Alissa Kole, shared her thoughts on this delisting but also on broader capital market developments related to the US-China tensions and how they might impact insures and investors ground forward. Full version of the article is available here.