GRC Report Staff

The Financial Conduct Authority has changed course on one of the harder edges of its new sustainability reporting regime. When the regulator consulted on the rules earlier this year, it proposed requiring listed companies to comply with the UK’s climate disclosure standard, UK SRS S2. Broader sustainability reporting under UK SRS S1, along with Scope 3 emissions disclosures, would have been handled differently: comply with the requirements or explain why not.

On December 10, a privacy policy in Australia will have to say something it has never been required to say before: whether a computer program is being used to make, or materially help make, decisions that significantly affect people.

Independence Blue Cross has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle allegations that it kept Medicare money tied to diagnosis codes that its own medical-record reviews did not support. The Justice Department announced the settlement Wednesday, bringing a civil False Claims Act case against the Pennsylvania insurer to a close without a determination of liability. The allegations concern Independence Blue Cross, or IBX, and its Medicare Advantage business during payment years 2017 through 2021.

The Financial Reporting Council has revised two UK standards covering the use of external experts, tightening the rules around how auditors and assurance practitioners judge the people whose specialist work they rely on.

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Europe’s heatwaves are already killing people on a scale unmatched by any other climate-related hazard on the continent. The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority now says the consequences are beginning to matter for the assumptions on which insurers and pension providers build their businesses.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven bills on September 21 establishing new requirements for data centers, including measures governing electricity costs, water-use disclosures, resource reporting and environmental review. The package is intended to give communities more information about proposed facilities while preventing the costs of serving them from being shifted onto ordinary utility customers.