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A lot of Tottenham Hotspur fans wouldn’t touch this story, but I’m casting aside English club rivalry to bring a little more attention to a story about Arsenal, my team’s north London rivals.
Arsenal have launched Arsenal Fanshare, selling portions of shares in the club (their 62,000 shares trade at around £10,000 apiece) to fans. This [...]

Thanks to the wonders of Twitter hashtags (you can follow CO3tweets here), an article from the Social Innovation Generation website in Canada, came to our attention. Intrigued by something which starts with the notion that “CSR is dead”, we read on. The piece is interesting, insofar as its discussion of how the concepts of corporate [...]

Since the UK’s general election in May this year, the phrase ‘Big Society’ has become more and more ubiquitous. The coalition government’s intention is that the delivery of certain public services will be put more into the hands of local communities, and with this shift away from centralised control we will see cost savings and [...]

They say a change is as good as a rest, but will this prove to be the case with the Metro Bank? The first brand new UK high street bank for over 100 years opened the doors of its first branch in central London yesterday.
We at CO3 have long thought that the obvious unpopularity of [...]

Not for the first time, listed companies have been receiving conflicting suggestions about what is (and is not) corporate governance best practice.
The new Corporate Governance Code, published by the FRC and applicable to UK listed companies for reporting periods commencing on or after 29 June 2010, indicates that best practice now requires FTSE350 companies to [...]

UK institutional investors should no longer feel left out when it comes to rules about corporate governance and transparency. Now, with the publication of The UK Stewardship Code, institutional investors and their asset managers have a set of guidelines of their own.
The Stewardship Code, which is complimentary to the Corporate Governance Code, ‘aims to enhance [...]

The new UK Corporate Governance Code, previously known as the Combined Code, came into effect just over a week ago. This iteration of the Code was drafted following Sir David Walker’s recent review of the previous version.
According to the new Code’s preface, ‘Two principal conclusions were drawn by the FRC from its review. First, that [...]

We have noted that parts of the UK media have decided recently to engage in a debate about CSR. This was, perhaps, inevitable following the recent and ongoing events in the Gulf of Mexico. Obviously this development is useful to us in CO3 world.  However it is a shame that much of the commentary seems [...]

Over the last few days the new UK government has signaled that it plans to re-introduce the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) reporting requirement. This idea has had a chequered history to say the least. The previous administration introduced it as a way of improving transparency only to, at the last minute, abruptly kill it [...]

For a nation that virtually runs on chips, the UK has been a bit slow to catch on to biodiesel – fuel made from vegetable oils – and its emissions-reducing potential.
Good to see then, that PwC, one of the leading accountancy firms, plans to source a good chunk of the energy needed to run its [...]