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McDonald's To Deploy Third Party Firm To Evaluate Diversity Initiatives: WSJ

McDonald's Corp (NYSE:MCD) is planning to deploy a third party to evaluate its effort on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the Wall Street Journal reported. In a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, the company said about 274 million shares of the company's common stock were voted in favor of the third-party civil…

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SEC sets out stricter rules for token ICOs

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposes tightening regulations on initial coin offerings (ICO) for ready-to-use utility tokens by requiring an ICO portal to file for approval with the regulator for the issuance and listing of such tokens in both primary and secondary markets.

Bangkok Post

Economy and Society: SEC proposes additional disclosure rules for ESG Funds

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

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Twitter shareholders sue Musk, say he 'deflated' stock price

Twitter shareholders have filed a lawsuit against billionaire Elon Musk, accusing him of unlawfully sowing doubt about his bid to buy Twitter

The Independent UK

Court Won't Let CDC End Migrant Expulsion Order Just Yet

Plus: Book bans come for Barnes & Noble, a blow to SEC enforcement power, and more...

Reason

SEC Working On Pending Rules On Misleading ESG Investment Claims: FT

Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing rules to specify disclosures to be made by investment funds with terms such as environmental, social, and governance (ESG), sustainable, or low-carbon in their names.

Benzinga

Investment firms in the crosshairs

The Capital Market Supervisory Board (CMSB) under the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has resolved to disallow securities-issuing companies or "investment companies" from offering new securities to the public to protect investors' interests.

Bangkok Post

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Bad Day in Court for the Administrative State

Fifth Circuit panel finds several constitutional problems with the Securities and Exchange Commission

Reason

Checks and Balances: Tennessee lawmakers end judicial deference

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

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Pennsylvania pension fund may sue its consultant for botching profits figure

Pennsylvania's beleaguered pension fund for educators has hired yet another outside law firm — this time to consider suing the consulting firm that admitted botching a key profits calculation in an error that has triggered an ongoing FBI investigation.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

SEC Is Already Investigating Terra's Stablecoin UST: Report

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is already investigating this week’s events concerning Terra (CRYPTO: LUNA) and TerraUSD (CRYPTO: UST), according to a report from

Benzinga

Economy and Society: ESG Task Force issues first enforcement action

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Bitkub hit with fines for breaking SEC coin listing rules

The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Criminal Fining Committee has imposed fines on Bitkub Online (BO) and five members of its digital asset selection committee for non-compliance with the SEC's digital asset listing rules.

Bangkok Post

Legal debate over SEC’s authority clouds climate rule proposal

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers and scholars are ratcheting up their arguments that the Securities and Exchange Commission lacks the statutory authority to require public companies to disclose climate-related financial risks.

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Bangkok Post

SEC, Fetco sound alarm on investment scams

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federation of Thai Capital Market Organizations (Fetco) warn the public to be wary of investment scams and suggest checking the list of authorised persons on the SEC Check First application.

Ballotpedia

Economy and Society: Academic pushback against SEC climate action

The Independent UK

Former ski resorts owner faces sentencing in Vermont fraud

The former owner of two Vermont ski resorts is facing sentencing for his role in a failed plan to build a biotechnology plant in Vermont using tens of millions of dollars in foreign investors’ money raised through a special visa program that was part of the largest fraud case in…

Tribune News Service

Some states’ anti-ESG push garners support in Congress

WASHINGTON — Republican state lawmakers are berating U.S. financial institutions for increased reliance on environmental, social and governance metrics to screen investments and analyze credit risk factors, with some of the critics attracting support in Congress.

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Some states' anti-ESG push garners support in Congress - Roll Call

Some states are resisting financial institutions' efforts to include environment, social and governance issues in financial metrics.

Salon

Will Big Oil face another reckoning?

The new season of shareholder climate demands has begun

Ballotpedia

Checks and Balances: SEC publishes proposed climate disclosures rule

The Independent UK

Ex-ski resort exec gets 18 months in failed visa plan case

The first of four men accused in a failed plan to build a biotechnology plant in Vermont using tens of millions of dollars in foreign investors’ money raised through a special visa program has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison

The Conversation

Elon Musk argues Twitter would be better off in private rather than public hands – corporate governance scholars would disagree

Billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to take Twitter private by buying 100% of its publicly held shares in a deal worth US$43 billion.

Benzinga

Kaleido Biosciences Shares Plunging To 52-Week Low, Read Why

Kaleido Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:KLDO) has delivered formal notice to voluntarily delist its common stock from NASDAQ as the Company will stop all operations. The Company expects to file a Form 25 with the Securities and Exchange Commission by April 18 to effect the voluntary delisting effective by April 28. The Board of…

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Why Did FDA Pull Authorization For GSK-Vir's COVID-19 Therapy? Read Here

The U.S. health regulator said GlaxoSmithKline Plc (NYSE:GSK) and Vir Biotechnology Inc's (NASDAQ:VIR) antibody therapy was no longer authorized as a COVID-19 treatment. The decision was made as the CDC now estimates that the proportion of Covid-19 cases caused by BA.2 is above 50% nationwide. "Sotrovimab is no longer authorized to treat COVID-19 in any…

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