(Reuters) -Walt Disney Co chief executive Bob Chapek has rejected billionaire activist investor Daniel Loeb's call to sell or spin off the ESPN sports television network, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. Loeb, who runs Third Point, in August disclosed a stake of roughly $1 billion in Disney and announced plans to push the company to make a string of changes, from spinning off ESPN to buying back shares and adding new board members...

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fentura Financial, Inc. and The State Bank are excited to announce the appointment of three new Board of Directors. Mark Bole, Kristen Holt, and Debra Williams were appointed to the Board of Directors for both Fentura Financial, Inc. and The State Bank. Mark Bole is the Global Chief Administrative Officer and President of International Operations for GM Financial...

(Reuters) - China's securities regulator on Tuesday denied that it and its securities association had asked foreign investment banks for senior executives' pay details or suggested they implement pay curbs, rejecting media reports. Bloomberg reported on Friday that Chinese regulators had warned top global banks, during meetings in Shanghai and Beijing this year, against paying their top bankers in China lavishly...

(Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is dropping a proxy fight focused on the treatment of pregnant pigs at Kroger Co after losing a similar fight with McDonald's Corp last month, Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday...

(Reuters) -Unilever named Nelson Peltz as a board member on Tuesday, as it engages in talks about strategy with the American activist investor who now holds a roughly 1.5% stake in the consumer goods giant. London-listed Unilever said Peltz will join as a non-executive director from July and serve as a member of the board's compensation committee...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York-based Elliott Investment Management, one of the world's most prominent activist investors, has dissolved its stake in Duke Energy Corp, the firm disclosed in a regulatory filing on Monday. Elliott owned 1 million shares at the end of the fourth quarter, according to a filing made in February. At the end of the first quarter, it no longer owned the stock, the filing made on Monday shows...

(Reuters) - Bipartisan majorities of U.S. adults think CEO pay is too high, a new poll found, presenting a challenge for corporate boards looking to balance compensation for leaders and workers. In a survey of 1,037 people in February, 81% of Democrats and 71% of Republicans said the CEOs of the largest American companies were paid "too much," according to poll sponsor Just Capital, a nonprofit focused on corporate stakeholder research...

(Reuters) - Activist investor Daniel Loeb, who wants Royal Dutch Shell Plc to break apart, applauded the energy giant's decision to move its headquarters even as he sticks to views that a different corporate structure would make it more successful...

Cat Rock Capital says Just Eat ‘torpedoed’ share price by providing misleading outlook before Grubhub takeover...

The UK’s financial watchdog has set diversity targets for FTSE listed companies, including that 40% of boards should be women. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has finalised rules requiring listed companies to report information and disclose against targets on the representation of women and ethnic minorities on their boards and executive management...

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Proxy firm ISS joined Glass Lewis to back a Bombardier Inc proposal to reduce the number of its common shares, in a move the company said could help increase its stock price and reduce transaction costs for investors. Montreal-based Bombardier in March said it would seek shareholder support for a reverse stock split of its Class A and Class B shares that could range between 10-for-1 and 30-for-1...

Barclays and Standard Chartered face the prospect of rebellions over executive pay after an influential adviser said investors should vote down pay and pensions packages for executives at the FTSE 100 banks...

(BUSINESS WIRE ) -- Vimly Benefit Solutions, a leading provider of cloud-based benefits administration technology, announced that it has recently appointed Keith Dorsey to its Board of Directors. Mr. Dorsey's over 25 years of sales leadership experience in the Human Capital Management and Benefits Technology industry adds significant value to the Vimly board...

(Reuters) - A U.S. markets regulator on Wednesday will propose new rules that would require platforms that execute trades of security-based swaps to register with the agency in a bid to increase the transparency of the over-the-counter derivatives market...

Takeda today announced that its Board of Directors will propose two new candidates for independent external directors at the 146 th Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders on June 29, 2022. The new candidates, Kimberly A. Reed and John Maraganore, who – if approved – will join the Board effective June 29, will succeed Toshiyuki Shiga and Shiro Kuniya who have announced their intention to retire...

(Reuters) - Britain's HSBC toughened its climate commitments and pledged greater openness about its progress on Wednesday after pressure from activists who said they would now withdraw a resolution slated for its next shareholder meeting...

(Reuters) - Activist investor Clearway Capital has written to the board of French energy major TotalEnergies calling on it to exit its Russian operations in light of the war in Ukraine or face a vote on the issue at its next shareholder meeting...

( BUSINESS WIRE )--HSBC Bank USA today announced the recent appointments of Deborah P. Bailey, Melvin L. Flowers, George W. Madison and Alice D. Schroeder to the HSBC North America Holdings Inc. (HNAH) and HSBC Bank USA, N.A. (HBUS) Boards of Directors...

Rio Tinto has revealed that 21 women have been raped or sexually assaulted at its sites over the last five years in a damning report that admitted “systemic” bullying, harassment and racism at the company. An external review of the FTSE 100 miner found more ...

Just because Peloton is wounded and Apple has gobs of cash, knowledge and momentum behind its fitness offerings, with the Apple Watch and new fitness classes, does it mean the tech giant will make an acquisition play for the connected bike maker? "That has been a question I have been asked for the last three or four months," said Cowen tech analyst Krish Sankar , referring to the rumblings of Apple gobbling up Peloton on weakness...

( BUSINESS WIRE )--Beth Altman, former managing partner at accounting firm KPMG LLP San Diego, has joined Papyrus Therapeutics Inc. as an independent director of the Company's Board of Directors and as Chair of the Audit Committee. Beth has more than 27 years of experience in accounting, finance, management, business development, strategic planning and corporate governance...

Unilever is expected to face pressure to shake up its business model after it emerged the activist investor Nelson Peltz has built a stake in the troubled FTSE 100 company. The consumer goods company, best known for Dove soap, Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Marmite, has been thrown into turmoil after a £50bn tilt at GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer healthcare division caused fury among its shareholders...

( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Fiona Macfarlane and Andrea Nicholls have been appointed to the HSBC Bank Canada Board of Directors as non-executive directors effective today...

Record house prices, cheap mortgages, a stamp duty holiday and the “race for space” during the pandemic have meant huge rewards for UK housebuilders, Taylor Wimpey included. In the first half of 2021, the UK’s third-largest housebuilder finished a record number of homes, returned to profit, and upgraded forecasts for the full year, the results for which it will publish in March...