Monday 30th Mar 2015
The Female Financial Times and London Stock Exchange (FTSE) Board in the UK recently released its sixth edition of the “100 Women to Watch” list, naming Charlotte Rushton, managing director, U.S. Large Law Firms, and Jessica Turner, global head, Government & Academia, both at Thomson Reuters, as women to watch in 2015. The FTSE is ...
Thursday 26th Mar 2015
Robert G. Eccles is a professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. He is one of the world’s leading experts on a global movement for companies to include new, value-related information in their regular reporting to regulators, investors and stakeholders. Prof. Eccles has written two books on the subject, One Report: Integrated Reporting for ...
Wednesday 25th Mar 2015
The Legal business of Thomson Reuters had another very successful conference at VANTAGE Melbourne. This year’s conference, held March 3–4, was the largest Asia Pacific Regional Conference yet, with a record-breaking attendance of more than 150 attendees and 11 Global Strategic Alliances firms participating. The conference was held at The Langham Melbourne with panoramic city ...
Tuesday 24th Mar 2015
At Legaltech New York this year, we caught up with Pauline Reich, JD, and professor at Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan, where she teaches cybercrime, cybersecurity, data privacy and data protection, and Internet-based legal research. In this capacity and also as the director of the Asia-Pacific Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Internet Security Research ...
Monday 23rd Mar 2015
Understanding and evaluating a company’s sustainable business practices are at the core of how analysts, investors, risk management professionals and others assess opportunities and risks around the world. In the first issue of Exchange magazine in 2015, we bring together a variety of perspectives to discuss the topic of sustainability and its impact on financial ...
Tuesday 17th Mar 2015
For the seventh consecutive year, Thomson Reuters has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the 2015 World’s Most Ethical Companies. Each year, the Ethisphere Institute, an independent center for research promoting best practices in corporate ethics and governance, lists companies for ethical and principled business practices that positively influence an organization’s performance ...
Wednesday 11th Mar 2015
With the Global Ethics Summit winding down in New York, one of the event’s final sessions focused on board diversity. “There’s become a compelling case for board diversity,” Veta Richardson, president and CEO, Association of Corporate Counsel, noted. “Particularly as research has showed that more diverse boards outperform their global peers.” She then noted the ...
Tuesday 10th Mar 2015
Among the breakout sessions at the Global Ethics Summit was a panel discussion on compliance and the anti-corruption landscape. As Donna Dabney, executive director, Governance Center of The Conference Board, noted, in the 80s and 90s there were incentives for corporations to not have a compliance function for fear that they would have to report ...
Tuesday 10th Mar 2015
The seventh annual Global Ethics Summit kicked off this morning in New York with a keynote conversation involving a diverse set of CEOs. Tom Pfeifer, senior vice president of sales for Thomson Reuters, moderated a panel discussion with James Roberts, president and CEO of Granite Construction; Andrea Illy, chairman and CEO of illycaffe’; and Rodney Martin, ...
Tuesday 10th Mar 2015
To celebrate the ninth annual World’s Most Ethical Companies list, the Ethisphere Institute hosted the World’s Most Ethical Companies Gala in New York last night. More than 520 representatives from this year’s honorees — including Thomson Reuters — joined dignitaries at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan for this year’s event. Gala attendees also were treated to ...
Monday 9th Mar 2015
Continuing to solidify itself as the market leader, Serengeti Tracker closed 2014 with more than 800 client companies on its roster. This marked an increase in its client’s base of more than 240 percent over the last four years while maintaining a 99 percent retention rate. Serengeti Tracker is the legal profession’s most widely used and ...
Wednesday 4th Mar 2015
On March 10-11, CEOs, board chairs, compliance and risk management leadership, and more will meet at the 7th Annual Global Ethics Summit, sponsored by Thomson Reuters and Ethisphere. Each year, the summit features compelling conversations on the ethical performance, behavior and reputation of organizations all over the world. Among the business leaders at this year’s ...
Monday 2nd Mar 2015
This post was written by Robert Mccorquodale, marketing executive in the Legal UKI business of Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters is the strategic partner to the Global Law Summit, held this week in London to mark 800 years since the sealing of Magna Carta. The event celebrates the history of this important document and its impact ...
