Corporate Governance and Sustainability Center screens researches and follows up all the developments in corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, structured finance, EU projects, legal subsidies and grants, and displays at the disposal of it's members. Our members will reach significant , valuable and timely reports on the topics listed below;

• Board
  • 2007 Review of the Combined Code: Consultation on Proposed Changes to the Code
  • Bankers on the Boards of German Firms: What they do, what they are worth, and why they are (still) there
  • The Chairman/CEO Seperation: One View
  • Corporate Board Member: Emerging Trends in Corporate Governance (Korn Ferry)
  • Overview of Corporate Governance and Fiduciary Responsibilities For Board of Directors and Compensation Committee Members
  • Directors Monthly: Credibility of the Capital Markets Dependent on Corporate Governance (Ira Millstein)
  • Power matters: A survey of GCC boards
  • Duties of company directors
  • Review of the Role and Effectiveness of Non-Executive Director
  • Board Meeting in Session: Twenty "Best Practices" to Improve Board Performance (Korn Ferry)
  • Annual Board of Directors Study-Emerging Markets (Korn Ferry)
  • Board Meeting in Session: Evaluating of the Chief Executive Officer (Korn Ferry)
  • Non-Executive Directors
  • Help Wanted: Directors with Overseas Experience (Korn Ferry)
  • Outside Director Liability Across Countries
  • The Board Agenda: Good Practices for Meeting Market Expectations (PwC)
  • Remuneration: Where we’ve been, how we got to here, what are the problems, and how to fix them
  • Role and Responsibilities of Independent Director-Under the Companies Act
  • Good Practice Suggestions From the Higgs Report
  • The Responsible Board (Ira Millstein)
     
• Transparency & Accountability
  • Statutory Audits of Annual Accounts and Consolidated Accounts, as Regards the Implementing Powers Conferred on the Commission
  • The Evolving Accounting Standards for Special Purpose Entities and Consolidations
  • Get Ready for the EU's 8th Directive-Audit Committee
  • Recommendation for Additional Guidance Regarding the Transition to IFRS
  • Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Bill
  • Corporate Governance Rating (CGR)-A More Efficient Approach to Corporate Monitoring
  • Internal Control over Financial Reporting-Guidance for Smaller Public Companies: Volume I-Executive Summary (COSO)
  • Enterprise Risk Management-Integrated Framework: ExecutiveSummary (COSO)
  • Denetim Komitesi: Rol ve Sorumluluklar (Deloitte)
  • International Financial Reporting Standards of Growing Importance for U.S.Companies (Deloitte)
  • Trends & Results: Deminor Rating’s Corporate Governance Ratings and Research 2002
  • TRENDS&RATINGS 2003: Corporate Governance Research and Ratings
  • Guidance on Audit Committees
  • The Internal Control System: Reference Framework
  • Law on International Accounting Standarts in European Union
  • Audit Committees: Good Practices for Meeting Market Expectations (PwC)
  • Accounting Abuses and Proposed Countermeasures
  • Guidance on Audit Committees (The Smith Guidance)
  • Establishing a Mechanism for the Determination of Equivalence of Accounting Standards Applied by Third Country Issuers of Securities Pursuant
  • Corporate Ratings Criteria (S&P)
     
• Capital Markets, Shareowners, Institutional Investors
  • Global Pricniples of Accountable Corporate Governance (CALPERS)
  • Deloitte Financial Services in 2010: Hallmarks of Success
  • Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control
  • Hermes Principles: What shareholders expect of public companies and what companies should expect of their investors
  • Mapping Global Capital Markets Europe
  • U.S. and Canadian Corporate Governance Assessment (Moody's)
  • NYSE Corporate Governance Disclosure 2006
  • NYSE Final Corporate Governance Rules
  • Investment funds in the European Union: Comparative analysis of use of investment powers, investment outcomes and related risk features in both UCITS and non-harmonised markets (PwC)
  • The SEC’s Proposed Rating Agency Rules: Unresolved Conflicts
  • Taking Shareholder Protection Seriously? Corporate Governance in the United States and Germany
  • Shareholder Rights, Equitable Treatment and the Role of the State
  • TIAA-CREF Policy Statement on Corporate Governance
  • Why Corporate Governance Matters to Financial Institutions
  • Permissible Public Equity Markets Investment Analysis
  • TheGovernmentasInvestorOwnerinEurope

   

• Corporate Governance in Non-listed Companies
  • Buysse Code: Corporate Governance Recommendations for Non-Listed Enterprises
  • Spending Less Time with the Family: The Decline of Family Ownership in the UK.
  • Family Firms and their Governance: Creating Tomorrow’s Company from Today’s by Sir Adrian Cadburry
  • Improving Corporate Governance of Unlisted Companies
  • IFC Family Business Governance Handbook
  • The Lebanese Code of Corporate Governance
  • National Commission on Corporate Governance: Moroccan Code of Good Corporate Governance Practices
  • Corporate Governance of Non-Listed Companies in Emerging Markets
  • Private Company Board Governance
  • Framework Code of Good Corporate Governance for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises
  • Governance für Familienunternehmen (Swiss Code)
     
• Corporate Governance Developments in Turkey
  • Corporate Governance Principles-Capital Markets Board of Turkey(CMB)-2003
  • Corporate Governance Principles-Capital Markets Board of Turkey(CMB)-2005
  • Annual Turkish Merger&Acquisition Review (Deloitte)
  • Doing Business in Turkey
  • Policy Measures to Rebuild Confidence in Financial Markets and to Improve Governance of and by Institutional Investors
  • Corporate Governance in Turkey: An Investor Perspective (IIF)
     
• Corporate Governance Developments in EU and Member States
  • The Corporate Governance of Listed Corporations (AFEP-MEDEF)
  • Draft Standard No 2 on Financial Information Coordination of Enforcement Activities
  • Recommendations on Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Governance in the Unece Region
  • The Combined Code on Corporate Governance
  • Fostering an Appropriate Regime for Shareholders' Rights
  • Comparative Study of Corporate Governance Codes Relevant to the European Union and Its Member States
  • Discussion Of Individual Corporate Governance Codes Relevant to
    The European Union and Its Member States
  • Statement of the European Corporate Governance Forum on Cross-border Issues of Corporate Governance Codes
  • Statement of the European Corporate Governance Forum on Director Remuneration
  • Certain Rights of Shareholders in Listed Companies
  • European Corporate Governance Forum Meeting
  • Paper of the European Corporate Governance Forum Working Group on Proportionality
  • Report on the Proportionality Principle in the European Union
  • German Corporate Governance Code
  • The EU Approach to Corporate Governance
  • One Share – One Vote: A European Rule?
  • Impact Assessment on the Proportionality Between Capital and Control in Listed Companies
  • The Role of Non-Executive or Supervisory Directors of Listed Companies and on the Committees of the (Supervisory) Board
  • A Modern Regulatory Framework for Company Law in Europe: A Consultative Document of the High Level Group of Company Law Experts
  • Council Directives on the Annual Accounts of Certain Types of Companies, on Consolidated Accounts, on the Annual Accounts and Consolidated Accounts of Banks and Other Financial Institutions and on the Annual Accounts and Consolidated Accounts of Insurance Undertakings
  • The Annual Accounts of Certain Types of Companies and Consolidated Accounts (Proposal)
  • Statement of the European Corporate Governance Forum on Risk Management and Internal Control
  • The Transformation of Corporate Governance in France
  • Report on the application by the Member States of the EU of the Commission Recommendation on the Role of Non-Executive or Supervisory Directors of Listed Companies and on the Committees of the (Supervisory) Board
     
• OECD Studies on Corporate Governance
  • The Role of Private Equity and Activist Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance-Related Policy Issues
  • Methodology for Assessing the Implementation of the OECD Principles on Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Governance in OECD Member Countries: Recent Developments and Trends (Revised)
  • Codes and Industry Standards Covering the Behavior of Alternative Investors
  • Corporate Governance in South Eastern Europe
  • Corporate Governance in Latin America
  • Corporate Governance in South Africa
  • Corporate Governance and Responsibility: Foundations of Market Integrity
  • Pension Fund Governance
  • The Implications of Alternative Investment Vehicles for Corporate Governance: A Synthesis of Research About Private Equity Firms and "Activist Hedge Funds"
  • The Implications of Alternative Investment Vehicles for Corporate Governance: A Survey of Empirical Research
  • Codes of Corporate Conduct: Expanded Review of their Contents
  • Focus Group Meeting on Corporate Governance of Non-Listed Companies
  • Towards Sound and Efficient Financial Markets and Banking Systems Corporate Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
  • OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
  • Total Assets of Private Pension Funds within OECD Countries
  • OECD Risk Awareness Tool for Multinational Enterprises in Weak Governance Zones
  • OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance
  • Lack of Proportionality Between Ownership and Control: Overview and Issues for Discussion
     
• Corporate Governance Studies Of Other Organizations
  • Capital Market Competitiveness
  • The Corporate Governance Code of the Kingdom of Bahrain
  • Corporate Governance and Control
  • Corporate Governance Practices of Russian Companies
  • The Costs and Benefits of Financial Market Regulation
  • Developing Effective Corporate Governance Practices: A Brief Overview of Policy Initiatives
  • What Do We Know About Different Systems of Corporate Governance?
  • Do U.S. Firms Have the Best Corporate Governance?: A Cross-Country Examination of the Relation between Corporate Governance
    and Shareholder Wealth
  • Sound Business Standards and Corporate Practices: A Set of Guidelines
  • The State of the European Investment Fund Industry
  • Managing Corporate Governance Risks in Russia
  • Is the U.S. Capital Market Losing Its Competitive Edge?
  • Review of Literature & Empirical Research on Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Governance and Economic Growth in Russia
  • The Impact of SOX and QMS/EMS on Corporate Governance
  • Why Do Countries Matter so Much for Corporate Governance?
     
• Corporate Governance and Company Value
  • The Costs and Benefits of Financial Market Regulation
     
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
  • Anti-corruption and Corporate Governance: Tools in Promoting Financing for Development Global Corporate Governance Forum
  • Assure View
  • Citizenship Report
  • Coke Corporate Social Responsibility
  • The Corporate Climate Communications Report
  • Corporate Responsibility Reporting Awards: Global Winners & Reporting Trends
  • Analytical Summary of the discussions on Corporate Responsibilities and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
  • Joint views of ICC and the IOE on the Recommendations of the ISO Advisory Group on Social Responsibility
  • Corporate Social Responsibility: The WBCSD’s journey
  • Corporate Social Responsibility: Making Good Business Sense
  • Executive Summary of Corporate Responsibility Initiatives
  • Web-Based Commentary on the ICC 9 Steps on Responsible Business Conduct
  • OECD Roundtable on Global Instruments for Corporate Responsibility
  • Private Initiatives for Corporate Responsibility: An Analysis (OECD)
  • Towards Transparency: Progress on Global Sustainability Reporting
     
• Case Studies
  • Reborn after the crisis: Board process and conduct at KB Kookmin Bank
  • Corporate Governance Convergence Through Cross-Border Mergers: The Case of Aventis
  • An Emerging Market for Corporate Control?: The Mannesmann Takeover and German Corporate Governance
  • Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance
  • Bylaws for the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board of Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
  • The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall: An Estimate of the Costs of the Crisis in Corporate Governance
     
• Islamic Finance
  • Islamic Private Equity Fund
  • Japan Bids a Warm Konnichiwa to Islamic Finance
  • Avoiding usury in Jewish and Christian Contracts
  • Islamic Private Equity Opportunities in the Middle East
  • IMF on Islamic Banks: Build Skyscrapers, Not the Titanic
  • Innovative Financial Products for Sophisticated Global Investors
  • Islam and Finance: The African Challenge
  • All Eyes Trained on Turkey
  • Islamic Finance in Secular Markets
  • Turkey 2006 – Looking Ahead With Confidence
  • Marking the Next Phase: Innovation
  • Legal Considerations Affecting the “Export” of Islamic Assetbacked Products
  • New Sukuk Rules Set to Boost Bond Market
  • Meeting Key Challenges for Financial Sector Development in the Mena Region the Role of Islamic Finance
  • UKTI-UK Excellence in Islamic Finance
  • Islamic Finance Review-London Stock Exchange article
  • Sukuk Database

   

• Newsletter
  • Eye on Turkey-May 2008
  • Eye on Turkey-June 2008
  • Eye on Turkey-July 2008
  • Eye on Turkey-August 2008
  • Eye on Turkey-September/October 2008