Boards Must Now Govern AI, Not Just Discuss It

The governance community has spent three years treating AI as a boardroom
conversation topic. That phase is closing. Fewer than 40% of boards have sufficient AI understanding to provide effective oversight, yet CEOs now rank AI investment as their top priority. The 2026 mandate for directors: move from AI strategy slides to concrete governance frameworks, approved guidelines for AI use in board activities, and clear liability lines as agentic AI systems begin executing decisions
autonomously.

“AI governance is inseparable from strategic oversight.”

SEC Rewrites the Shareholder Proposal Rulebook

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has signaled a meaningful procedural shift for the 2025–2026 proxy season, particularly around the handling of shareholder proposals under Rule 14a-8. In late 2025, the SEC indicated it may scale back its traditional “no-action letter” process, meaning companies can exclude certain shareholder

The Wood Group Affair: How a “Poor Financial Culture” Destroyed £13m and 78% of Shareholder Value

March 2026 delivered one of the sharpest governance enforcement cases in recent UK memory. The FCA fined John Wood Group PLC £12.9m for publishing misleading financial results across 2022, 2023, and the first half of 2024. This was a period during which the Aberdeen-headquartered engineering consultancy was haemorrhaging money

EU Inc. — Europe’s “28th Regime” and What It Means for Founders

On 18 March 2026, the European Commission unveiled its most ambitious company law proposal in decades: EU Inc., a single optional corporate form available to any founder across all 27 member states. The concept is simple at one level; incorporate digitally in roughly 48 hours, for under €100, with no

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SEC Rewrites the Shareholder Proposal Rulebook

The Wood Group Affair: How a “Poor Financial Culture” Destroyed £13m and 78% of Shareholder Value

EU Inc. — Europe’s “28th Regime” and What It Means for Founders