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Industry News 15 November, 2024

The Chancellor promises to reinvigorate our capital markets by unlocking private investment through our pension funds and to move to a more dynamic and competitive approach to regulation. Alongside this, we have confirmation that ESG ratings providers will be regulated, and the long-awaited consultation on a UK Green Taxonomy is launched.

IR Society News Industry News Consultation Responses Policy & Positions 14 November, 2024

The Society would support a system based on the IFRS Foundation taxonomy, to promote the international consistency and comparability of annual financial statements and thus help attract international issuers, dual listings and global investors/capital. Any mandatory reporting and tagging of sustainability-related data would impact on costs, process and timetable for filing ARAs and thus should be phased in over time, starting with the largest caps, to enable the development of software solutions/best practice. Moreover, the cost of introducing ‘disclosure management systems’ to comply with any mandatory sustainability reporting would currently be very significant for small- and mid-cap companies.

IR Society News Industry News 4 November, 2024

The Investor Relations Society (IR Society) is delighted to announce that HSBC will be the new sponsor of the senior investor relations development programme, DELIVER (DElivering Leadership in InVEstor Relations).

Informed 4 November, 2024

The main feature in this issue is titled 'Learning IR skills' and focuses on professional development opportunities within the IR Society. A second feature comprises several industry-relevant articles on a number of topics.

IR Society News 1 November, 2024

Exclusively available to IR Society members, the monthly Policy RoundUp email is a comprehensive overview of the impending changes to the existing regulatory regime and how this is likely to impact the IR community.

IR Society News Industry News Consultation Responses Policy & Positions 25 October, 2024

The Society raises issues around the materiality timeframe and quantification/ assessment for proposed requirements for prospectuses to include climate-related disclosure, and supports the concept of introducing a safe harbour for forward looking disclosures but calls for further review of the criteria to ensure it would cover forward-looking climate-related and transition reporting.

IR Society News Industry News Consultation Responses Policy & Positions 24 October, 2024

This IR Society response supports transparency of fund investment in the UK’s ‘unlisted’ quoted SME markets (AIM and Aquis) separately from unlisted equity as this could facilitate investor targeting for AIM companies.

IR Society News Informed 18 October, 2024

The IR Society's Informed magazine continues to be one of the most popular benefits of membership and the main reason for its enduring popularity is the extremely high quality of the content - and that is almost entirely down to you, our members!

4 October, 2024

To ensure that our professional development portfolio remains up to date and relevant to the educational needs of our membership, we are pleased to announce two new courses being added to our training portfolio from November 2024, Demystifying Financial Statements and Concepts and Valuation Fundamentals for Investor Relations.

Industry News 14 August, 2024

A comprehensive discussion paper has been issued by various regulators (including the FRC and FCA) on the future of digital reporting in the UK, which aims to gather stakeholder feedback on possible alternative taxonomies and assurance of digital tagging.

Industry News 8 August, 2024

The FRC has published some proposed revised guidance to help companies disclose principal risks and uncertainties within their strategic report, which may include risks that might impact solvency and liquidity.

IR Society News 4 August, 2024

We are very excited to be joined by comedian, Lucy Porter, as the host of our Awards Dinner on 26 November.

Informed 29 July, 2024

The main feature in this issue is full coverage of the 2024 IR Society conference. A second feature looks at various IR topics including remuneration, climate communications and IR for private markets.

Industry News 25 July, 2024

On 22nd July, the FRC gave an update on their Stewardship Code review, announcing further outreach to allow more discussion with stakeholders before they consult on any proposed revisions to the Code.

IR Society News Industry News Consultation Responses 15 July, 2024

This IR Society response expresses concern around the risks of requiring this non-GAAP reporting in the back half of the annual report, which would significantly increase the audit burden and would be especially difficult when the reporting timetable is tight.

11 July, 2024

The new rules will bring the biggest changes to the listing regime in over 3 decades. From 29th July, there will be fewer shareholder approval requirements, allowing greater risk but intended to better reflect the risk appetite the economy needs to achieve growth.

Industry News 2 July, 2024

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has published final Additional sector guidance for eight real economy sectors to apply the LEAP approach, alongside updated Additional guidance for financial institutions to apply the TNFD Recommendations and final Guidance on value chains.

IR Society News Consultation Responses 28 June, 2024

This IR Society response calls for increased standardisation, given the sizeable disparities in price and quality, rigour and methodology amongst providers.

Industry News 27 June, 2024

ISSB announces further harmonisation of the sustainability disclosure landscape as it embarks on its new work plan.

IR Society News Consultation Responses 6 June, 2024

This IR Society response calls for simplicity to allow straightforward and speedy implementation, supports the eligibility of companies listed/traded on a UK recognised stock exchange (including investment trusts) for the UK ISA, but questions the exclusion of companies with overseas incorporations (except in the case of secondary listings).