As noted in my most recent LinkedIn post, 2025 turned out to be an unexpectedly big year for these conversations, with more than one million views and over 200,000 reactions. That level of engagement doesn’t happen by accident. It suggests there’s a deep and growing frustration across the risk, audit, and governance community that something fundamental still isn’t clicking inside corporate boardrooms.
The UK’s corporate governance watchdog is taking a closer look at how the country’s largest private companies explain their governance decisions and sees both progress and room to grow. In its first reporting insights since taking over oversight of the Wates Corporate Governance Principles earlier this year, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) says many companies are using the framework effectively to articulate how boards oversee risk and engage with stakeholders. But when it comes to explaining corporate purpose, how boards are structured, and how directors are paid, disclosures are still often falling flat.
The UK’s Financial Reporting Council has issued a new thematic review highlighting persistent weaknesses in the corporate reporting of smaller listed companies and offering practical guidance aimed at narrowing the quality gap with larger firms.
The Financial Reporting Council has released its final assessment of how UK-listed companies report under the 2018 Corporate Governance Code, and the picture that emerges is one of boards becoming more comfortable using the Code’s flexibility rather than hiding from it.
The conversation began with a question posed in a recent post, “Are professional institutes and regulators rejecting AI research and logic because they don’t want to change?”
South Africa is preparing to turn a new page in corporate governance. The Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA) will tomorrow publish the final version of the long-awaited King V Code, marking the latest evolution of a framework that has shaped boardrooms and board thinking across the country, and far beyond, for nearly three decades.
The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published its final guidance to help organisations report under the UK Stewardship Code 2026, following stakeholder feedback on a draft version released in June.