Weekly Roundup: January 1

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This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of January 1, 2016 to January 8, 2016.

CFTC’s Proposed Rules on Cybersecurity

Posted by Dan Ryan, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on Saturday, January 2, 2016

Tags: Accounting, Audits, CFTC, Clearing houses, Cybersecurity, Derivatives, Financial institutions, Recovery & resolution plans, Risk, Risk assessment, Risk oversight, Securities Regulation, Swaps, Swaps entities

Recovery Planning for Large National Banks

Posted by C. Andrew Gerlach, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Sunday, January 3, 2016

Tags: Bank boards, Bankruptcy, Banks, Boards of Directors, Deposit insurance, Dodd-Frank Act, Failed banks, FDIC, Federal Reserve, Financial institutions, Financial Regulation, Foreign banks, Liquidity, OCC, Recovery & resolution plans, Risk management, Stress tests

Resource Extraction Payments

Posted by Nicolas Grabar & Sandra Flow, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, on Monday, January 4, 2016

Tags: Accountability, Anti-corruption, Compliance and disclosure interpretation, Disclosure, Dodd-Frank Act, International governance, Reporting regulation, SEC, SEC enforcement, SEC rulemaking, Securities Regulation, Transparency

Global and Regional Trends in Corporate Governance in 2016

Posted by Anthony Goodman, Russell Reynolds Associates, on Monday, January 4, 2016

Tags: Accountability, Board composition, Board leadership, Board performance, Boards of Directors, Brazil, Diversity,Engagement, EU, Europe, India, Institutional Investors, International governance, Japan, Securities Regulation

Where are the Best (Corporate) Law Professors Teaching?

Posted by Marco Ventoruzzo, Bocconi University and Pennsylvania State University, on Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Tags: Brazil, Corporate governance, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Rankings, Singapore, Social capital, Social networks, SSRN, UK

ISS Proxy Access FAQs: Problematic Proxy Access Provisions

Posted by Howard B. Dicker, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, on Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Tags: Boards of Directors, Charter & bylaws, Director nominations, Executive Compensation, Institutional Investors, ISS,Precatory proposals, Proxy access, Proxy advisors, Shareholder proposals, Shareholder rights, Shareholder voting

Corporate Governance and Blockchains

Posted by David Yermack, NYU Stern School of Business, on Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Tags: Accounting, Backdating, Bitcoin, Books and records, Capital markets, Debt securities, Derivatives, Hidden ownership,Information environment, Ownership, Related party transactions, Shareholder activism, Shareholder voting, Stock options,Transparency

Ten Topics for Directors in 2016

Posted by Kerry E. Berchem, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, on Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Tags: Audit committee, Board composition, Board turnover, Boards of Directors, Cybersecurity, Executive Compensation,Mergers & acquisitions, Proxy access, Risk management, SEC, Securities Regulation, Shareholder activism, Shareholder proposals, Shareholder voting, Social networks

Governance Challenges When Gatekeepers are “Chilled”

Posted by Michael W. Peregrine, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, on Thursday, January 7, 2016

Tags: Accountability, Audit committee, Boards of Directors, Compliance & ethics, Compliance and disclosure interpretation,Conflicts of interest, DOJ, Internal auditors, Liability standards, Misconduct, Risk, Risk management, SEC, SEC enforcement,Securities enforcement, Securities Regulation

Activist Hedge Funds, Golden Leashes, and Advance Notice Bylaws

Posted by Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board, on Thursday, January 7, 2016

Tags: Advanced notice, Board performance, Boards of Directors, Charter & bylaws, Compensation committees, Director compensation, Executive Compensation, Golden leashes, Hedge funds, Incentives, Management, Pay for performance, Proxy contests, Shareholder activism, Shareholder proposals, Shareholder voting, Wachtell Lipton

Director Removal Without Cause

Posted by Daniel E. Wolf, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Friday, January 8, 2016

Tags: Board declassification, Charter & bylaws, Classified boards, Delaware cases, Delaware law, DGCL, DGCL s.141,Majority voting, Mergers & acquisitions, Ousting directors, Shareholder activism, Shareholder elections, Shareholder voting

Weekly Roundup: January 1–January 8