Sentences with phrase «engage public companies»

Find out if large institutional investors are doing more to engage public companies on governance issues.

While during the past proxy season only some of the issuers were required to apply Instruction 561, the CVM is now aiming at engaging all public companies to follow suit.

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He did praise Twitter as being an «irreplaceable» service that no company or product could replace as a substitute for the way it lets people quickly engage with the public without many barriers.

When business folks do engage on public policy, it tends to directly involve their bottom line, like the recent feud between the big telecommunication companies and Harper over foreign ownership rules.

Angus responded by arguing that Chan's role as the company's leading public policy person in Canada means he's in charge of engaging with government on a wide range of business issues that affect Facebook, which has 23 million users in the country and more than two billion worldwide.

It all started with this simple question: if a company is wholly good and engaged in sincere, ongoing and proactive dialogue with its stakeholders, then to what extent would they require the counsel and services of a public relations firm?

A recent survey on corporate reputation conducted by the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) showed that nearly 50 % of the companies who responded had been targeted by activist citizen groups, and now engage with these non-governmental organizations in order to help improve public perceptions.

Brianna's responsibilities include engaging companies on environmental, social, and governance issues and public policy advocacy.

Mr. Garland and his team are responsible for developing and implementing the Funds» active ownership programs for public equities, including voting proxies, engaging portfolio companies on their environmental, social and governance policies and practices, and advocating for regulatory reforms to protect investors and strengthen shareholder rights.

The company's subsequent teeing up of a monetization strategy for WhatsApp, via the forthcoming launch of business accounts, likely explains its push to link users of the end - to - end encrypted messaging platform with Facebook users, where the same people have likely engaged in far more public digital activity — such as liking pages, searching for content, and making posts and comments that Facebook is able to read.

Turning illiquid private - company stock into cash by selling shares to the public required engaging a top investment bank, which typically wouldn't take a company public until it had had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

C.D. Howe means exposure to first class critical analysis; participation in the development thoughtful public policy; and enjoying the company of dynamic people engaged in the broader community.

As a profitable Crown corporation that operates on commercial principles, EDC works together with private - and public - sector financial institutions to create greater capacity for Canadian companies to engage in trade and investment.

As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) Crypto unlawfully engaged in a scheme to promote and manipulate the Company's stock; and (ii) as a result, Crypto's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

She frequently engages with Asian public company issuers to discuss Glass Lewis» policies and approaches to analyzing corporate governance issues, and has participated in numerous seminars and panel discussions for Japanese investors and issuers.

As a profitable Crown corporation that operates on commercial principles, EDC works together with private and public - sector financial institutions to create greater capacity for Canadian companies to engage in trade and investment.

An ICO, just as an Initial Public Offering, is an event, to engage investors in any given company's upcoming project.

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

America's beverage companies are engaged in public health issues because we, too, want a strong, healthy America.

Mark Glover of Bellenden Public Affairs says his company always follows at least the minimum standards outlined within APPC and CIPR codes of conduct of how to engage with any politician.

Don't forget, no matter how much the TV companies dress it up, the General Election starting gun hasn't actually been fired and the public aren't yet engaged.

«The general public is hereby informed that Menzgold Company Limited is not licensed by the Bank of Ghana and has no authority to engage in the solicitation, receipt of money and payment of dividends to its client.

«We won't let fraudsters take advantage of a public health crisis, and this should serve as a warning to other companies who seek to engage in the same dishonest practices.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a law that prohibits the state's public worker pension fund from investing in companies that engage in the boycott of Israel and support the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement.

«BOST is a public company financed with taxpayers» money and therefore has the responsibility to ensure that it does not engage in suspicious deals that lead to avoidable revenue losses, both to itself, government and consumers,» ACEP added.

The same study revealed that 60 percent of executives think the rise in consumer activism is forcing companies to authentically showcase their character in the way they operate and engage with the public, while 73 percent believe consumers are increasingly judging companies on the humanness of their corporate character.

Leaders of both companies have been engaged in a public feud since last year.

Graduates of our programs become engaged in academic and research careers in university programs, research organizations, or public agencies; or in administrative positions in school systems, educational centers, or national, regional, and state agencies; or in teacher education, professional development and curriculum positions in local and state systems and educational companies and organizations.

Another example: across the nation, some for - profit companies that run charter schools engage in self - serving real estate deals, hide their financial practices from public view, assert that they own assets that were purchased with public monies, and spend large sums to influence state legislators.

Additionally, another spokesperson told Benzinga «Although we have an obligation as a public company to listen to any proposals or offers from outside parties, we are not engaged in a process at this time.»

California Water Service Group is a holding company, which is engaged in the production, purchase, storage, treatment, testing, distribution and sale of water for domestic, industrial, public and irrigation uses, and for fire protection.

The company is also actively engaged in public policy advocacy on various issues that are important to its business, its customers, its employees, and its distributors.

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[FN3] The companies engaging in outright credit repair scams, however, are preying on some of the most vulnerable segments of the consuming public: those on fixed incomes, such as seniors; those with major debts, perhaps brought on by illness; and those who simply can not afford their own bills, much less oppressive advance fees.

United Financial Bancorp, Inc. is holding company which is engaged in attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those deposits in one - to four - family residential mortgage loans as well as in home equity loans.

American Electric Power Co., Inc. is a public utility holding company that engages in the business of generation, transmission and distribution of electricity.

Other activities include: • pushing for stricter environmental standards for offshore oil and gas projects • engaging a local energy company regarding their operations • running a public campaign to raise awareness regarding the threats posed by the Sakhalin offshore oil and gas projects

As the world's premier travel industry trade association, ATA provides services to a broad range of members including: tourism, diaspora, culture, and sports ministers, tourism boards, airlines, hoteliers, travel agents, tour operators, travel trade media, public relations firms, consulting companies, non-profit organizations, businesses, small and medium - sized enterprises, and other organizations engaged in tourism promotion.

You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Service in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated «scraping»; (ii) using any automated system, including without limitation «robots,» «spiders,» «offline readers,» etc., to access the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the Company servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional on - line web browser (except that Humble Bundle grants the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials from Humble Bundle for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials); (iii) transmitting spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited email; (iv) attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service; (v) taking any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole judgment an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (vi) uploading invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Service; (vii) collecting or harvesting any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service; (viii) using the Service for any commercial solicitation purposes; (ix) impersonating another person or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity, conducting fraud, hiding or attempting to hide your identity; (x) interfering with the proper working of the Service; (xi) accessing any content on the Service through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Service; (xii) bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service, including without limitation features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Service or the content therein; (xiii) sell, assign, rent, lease, act as a service bureau, or grant rights in the Products, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other entity without the prior written consent of such Products» (defined below) licensors; (xiv) circumventing Service limitations on the number of Products you may purchase, including, without limitation, creating multiple accounts and purchasing a total number of Products through such multiple accounts which exceed the per - user limitations; or (xv) except as otherwise specifically set forth in a licensor's end user license agreement, as otherwise agreed upon by a licensor in writing or as otherwise allowed under applicable law, distributing, transmitting, copying (other than re-installing software or files previously purchased by you through the Service on computers, mobile or tablet devices owned by you, or creating backup copies of such software or files for your own personal use) or otherwise exploiting the Products (defined below) in any manner other than for your own private, non-commercial, personal use.

Working in collaboration with public funding from the Mayor's Office, academic research funding from the University of Chicago, and private funding from property re-development companies, Gates has quickly catapulted his socially engaged practice into contemporary art superstardom.

Continuing a century - long heritage of making and collaboration with leading international contemporary artists, the Studio weavers are dedicated to producing extraordinary and engaging works of art by commission from private and public collectors from across the globe In 1946, the Studios were incorporated as The Edinburgh Tapestry Company.

With a diverse approach to making, their works have ranged from the creation of large - scale, dynamic public spaces, to the organization of a nomadic theatre company — in each instance engaging with ideas of collective experiences and the limitations and possibilities for creating a work of art.

Companies who engage in activity that endangers the public, including polluters, mangrove and conifer forest destroyers, and despoilers of the atmosphere, need to be called to account.

«American companies have every right to engage in important public debates, but these discussions should neither serve as a license to obscure credible data and research nor impede domestic and international actions based on that data,» said Rockefeller.

The cities say that the oil companies have known about the risks of anthropogenic climate change, but that rather than disclose what they know, the companies engaged in a decades - long campaign to deceive the public that the science is uncertain.

A core component of their suit is fossil fuel companies «engaged in a large - scale, sophisticated advertising and public relations campaign» to promote fossil fuels while they «knew» their products would contribute to «dangerous global warming.»

The program comes as Rinehart is engaged in a very public fight with the board of Fairfax, the media company which owns the nation's most respected newspapers the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

These local governments argue fossil fuel companies, including Exxon and Chevron, knew greenhouse gases from its products would cause the world to warm but «concealed the dangers, sought to undermine public support for greenhouse gas regulation, and engaged in massive campaigns» to promote their products.