The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has issued a Staff Report arguing that the existing regime for information disclosure is primarily one of compliance, and that to improve corporate governance, reforms should be directed toward providing incentives for disclosure, rather than mandating it.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has revised its 2006 Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision, and has merged the document with its Core Principles Methodology.

The Joint Forum has released for consultation principles which provide national authorities, standard setters and supervisors with a set of internationally agreed principles that support consistent and effective supervision of financial conglomerates.

The Irish Takeovers Panel has proposed its third set of changes to the takeovers rules in the past year.

The Financial Reporting Council has issued a consultation paper on whether the UK Corporate Governance Code should be revised to require listed companies to publish their policy on gender diversity in the boardroom and report against it annually.

The Financial Reporting Council, following feedback from its consultation paper, Gender Diversity on Boards, has announced changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code aimed at promoting greater gender diversity at board level.

The Irish Funds Industry Association has published a Corporate Governance Code for Collective Investment Schemes and Management Companies.

To address fundamental deficiencies in bank corporate governance that became apparent during the financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has issued a final set of principles for enhancing sound corporate governance practices at banking organisations.

The Bermuda Monetary Authority has published for consultation a Corporate Governance Code for banks.