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The Swedish corporate bond market has undergone major changes in recent decades, and with these, questions about the design of the regulation and application problems have received increasing attention in the media, from authorities, and among politicians. In 2023, an extensive research project on these issues has been carried out at Stockholm University, within the… Read more

The SCGI and the OECD has published the first report within the Swedish Capital Market Review project, The Swedish Corporate Bond Market: Challenges and Policy Recommendations. The report provides an assessment of the Swedish corporate bond market and policy recommendations to improve its functioning, drawing from detailed empirical analysis and in-depth interviews with market participants. It includes two… Read more

On 14-15 March, SCGI Director Mats Isaksson was invited to a meeting in Tokyo with the Asian Development Bank (AsDB) Research Institute. The purpose was to discuss corporate governance and capital market reforms. Mats spoke mainly about the need for legislators and regulators to understand the underlying links between corporate governance and the supply of… Read more

Erik Lidman has been appointed as a representative to the OECD Corporate Governance Committee. The committee consists of 1–2 representatives from each OECD Member State, and oversees the implementation of the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises, co-ordinates and guides the OECD’s work on corporate governance and… Read more

The Institute’s Director Mats Isaksson has together with Daniel Blume from the OECD posted a brief overview of the recently released 2023 edition of the OECD Corporate Governance Factbook on the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum blog. The, OECD Factbook contains more than 100 figures and tables that provide comparable information on corporate governance regulations and… Read more

SCGI signs Joint Statement of Nordic Company Law Scholars on the European-Parliament’s Proposed Amendments to the Proposal for a Directive on MVR Shares On 7 December 2022, the European Commission presented a package of legislative proposals, one of which was a proposal for a directive on multiple-vote share structures in companies that seek admission to… Read more