Corporate law update: 26 July - 1 August 2025

This week:

• The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Primary Market Bulletin 57. The Bulletin announces final updated technical notes following recent consultations, including in relation to periodic financial information and inside information, and structured digital reporting. The FCA is also consulting on further changes to its existing technical note on principles for sponsors.
  
  Read FCA Primary Market Bulletin 57
   
• Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has launched its global benchmark policy survey for 2025. Topics of focus for this year’s survey include dual-class share structures, non-executive director overboarding, time-based executive incentive awards, and AI risks and governance. The survey closes on 22 August 2025.
  
  Read ISS’s press release regarding its 2025 global benchmark policy survey
  
  Access the list of questions in ISS’s 2025 global benchmark policy survey (PDF)