CMS Law (July 30) reports that two Commission Delegated Regulations implementing the EU ESG Ratings Regulation were published in the Official Journal on July 29: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/871 (specifying elements of ESG rating products to be disclosed to the public, to users, rated items, and issuers of rated items) and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/872 (specifying meas
Japan's Financial Services Agency and Tokyo Stock Exchange finalized the 2026 revision of the Corporate Governance Code on July 21, 2026. The revision consolidates previously dispersed sustainability provisions into a new Principle 4-4, explicitly designating sustainability oversight as a board responsibility for improving long-term corporate value. The code also elevates internal diversity from a
PwC's July 21, 2026 resource on board oversight of sustainability strategy reframes the ESG governance question: sustainability is not a standalone ESG exercise but a core strategic and long-term value issue. The report recommends that boards identify which sustainability topics are most strategically significant — using lenses including evolving regulatory requirements, physical and geopolitical
The EU Pay Transparency Directive (EU 2023/970) entered into force on June 6, 2026, with transposition required by all Member States by June 7, 2026, and first gender pay gap reports due in 2027 covering calendar year 2026. Companies with more than 250 employees must report annually; companies with 100–250 employees must report every three years. Employers must disclose salary ranges in all job ad
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted on June 30, 2026 to rescind its Affirmative Action Interpretive Guidelines and the related Compliance Manual on Affirmative Action — guidance established in 1979 that provided the framework for evaluating voluntary affirmative action plans and a good-faith compliance safe harbor for employers implementing such plans. The EEOC stated that the g
A federal judge in the Southern District of Indiana granted a preliminary injunction on June 26 blocking a state law that would have required proxy advisers ISS and Glass Lewis to disclose a "written financial analysis" whenever recommending votes against company management, finding the law amounted to unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. The ruling marks the third such injunction — followin
Falcon Rappaport & Berkman's decision to [release its internal GenAI policy framework on GitHub](https://tech.einnews.com/amp/pr_news/921879022/frb-releases-open-source-ai-policy) (June 24) removes the most common excuse mid-sized firms give for inaction: that drafting a compliant policy requires too much time or outside expertise. The templates — one for law firms, one for businesses — cover the
On May 22, the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission filed a joint Statement of Interest in the Texas Attorney General's case against BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard — becoming, for the first time in a U.S. court filing, the federal government's explicit position that industry-wide ESG coordination can violate the antitrust laws. The agencies advanced two theories: under Section
Board Intelligence said on July 1 that it is joining forces with Juristic, a Scandinavian legal technology platform focused on structure, timelines, visualization, data extraction, and workflow automation for legal teams. Strategically, this is notable less as pure consolidation and more as adjacent-category convergence: governance platforms are reaching deeper into legal workflows, while smaller