(Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. is poised to pay close to $1 billion to resolve market manipulation investigations by U.S. authorities into its trading of metals futures and Treasury securities, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
Top U.S. asset managers BlackRock Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co were divided in their support of climate-related proxy resolutions at corporate meetings this year, two analyses showed on Tuesday, underscoring the industry's mixed appetite for the vehicles ahead of a key rulemaking. Both studies - done by climate-focused shareholder organizations - found BlackRock continued to offer little backing to resolutions asking companies for steps like setting emissions targets or lobbying reports...
tZERO, a leader in financial innovation and liquidity for private companies, announced today that former Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Nasdaq, John Jacobs, has joined tZERO’s Board of Directors...
The art and science behind building the best-possible board of directors is under the microscope at this year's Corporate Governance Conference (CGC) of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries to be held online on Friday 25 September 2020...
Sterling Construction Company, Inc. (NasdaqGS: STRL) ("Sterling" or "the Company") today announced the election of Dwayne Wilson to its Board of Directors, enlarging the Board to eight members, effective immediately...
Crypto exchange company Coinbase revealed several updates to the composition of its board of directors on Monday...
(Reuters) - French media conglomerate Vivendi and activist fund Amber Capital - the two biggest shareholders in French company Lagardere - said they would go to court over Lagardere's refusal to hold a special shareholders meeting. The legal challenge highlights an intensifying and bitter battle to gain influence over Lagardere, which has pitted French billionaires Vincent Bollore and LVMH's Bernard Arnault against each other...
PCH International, the product development and supply chain orchestration company for the world's best brands, today announced that Jim Rowan, former CEO of Dyson, will join its Board of Directors, effective immediately...
Deluxe (NYSE: DLX), a Trusted Business Technology™ company, announced the election of Paul R. Garcia to its Board of Directors...
Pearson has appointed former Walt Disney International chairman Andy Bird as its new chief executive, replacing longstanding boss John Fallon. The struggling educational publisher said Mr Bird, who is a non-executive director on its board, will take up the new role from October 19...
Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors during periods of uncertainty. A number of executives and other insiders returned to the buy window last week. A notable activist investor again added to his stake in an old-school tech company...
Brightcove Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOV), the world’s leading video technology platform, today announced the appointment of two new members to its board of directors...
Peak Positioning Technologies Inc. (CSE: PKK) (OTCQB: PKKFD) ("Peak" or the "Company") today announced that it has added former KPMG Partner Michael Pesner to its Board of Directors...
Brigham Minerals, Inc. (NYSE: MNRL) ("Brigham Minerals," "Brigham," or the "Company"), a leading mineral and royalty interest acquisition company, today announced that it has appointed a new independent director, A. Lance Langford, to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Langford’s appointment increases the size of the board of directors to ten members...
Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE: AAP), a leading automotive aftermarket parts retailer, today announced two new appointments to its Board of Directors. Carla J. Bailo, President and CEO of The Center for Automotive Research, and Arthur L. Valdez Jr., Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain & Logistics Officer of Target Corporation, have been appointed to the Board effective, August 11, 2020...
Impossible Foods Inc. announced today that Mary Beth Laughton has joined the food tech startup’s board of directors...
Activist investor Carl Icahn (Trades, Portfolio), leader of Icahn Capital Management, revealed he increased his stakes in Xerox Holdings Corp. (NYSE:XRX) and Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:OXY) last week...
The Board of Directors of Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) today announced the recent appointment of Angelique Brunner as an independent member of the Board. Brunner is the CEO and Founder of EB5 Capital, a leader in the EB-5 immigrant investor industry that has raised over $750 million in foreign capital from investors in more than 65 countries for investment in job-creating real estate projects across the U.S...
Flotek Industries, Inc. ("Flotek" or the "Company") (NYSE: FTK) welcomes Harsha V. Agadi to its Board of Directors. He will also serve as the chair of the Compensation Committee...
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) today announced that former Anadarko Petroleum Chief Executive Officer Al Walker and President Robert G. Gwin have been named to the Board of Directors (Board) of the general partner of Enable Midstream Partners, LP, Enable GP, LLC, as representatives of CenterPoint Energy. CenterPoint Energy owns 53.7 percent of the common units representing limited partner interests in Enable Midstream Partners, a publicly traded master limited partnership that owns, operates and develops strategically located natural gas and crude oil infrastructure assets...
PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO), a provider of AI-powered solutions that optimize selling in the digital economy, today announced the appointment of Catherine A. Lesjak to its board of directors effective August 3, 2020. Lesjak joins the board as an independent director...
PointClickCare Technologies, the leading cloud-based software platform for the senior care market, announces it has strengthened its Board of Directors with the appointment of Betsy Atkins. Atkins brings to the PointClickCare Board more than 30 years of experience working with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies...
On Friday, July 10th, the SEC proposed a rule change raising the mandatory threshold for filing 13F reports to $3.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Not a small change, the SEC’s plan would raise 35-fold (the current minimum is $100 million) the level at which money managers are required to disclose each quarter the companies they own...
A look at the shareholders of NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) can tell us which group is most powerful. Insiders often own a large chunk of younger, smaller, companies while huge companies tend to have institutions as shareholders...