Ms McGuinness will launch a public consultation after the summer looking at company audit committees, the outside auditors who sign off on financial figures companies publish and the regulators who supervise them.
It will examine whether responsibilities of company board members to provide accurate financial reports are defined clearly enough.
The consultation will reflect on how to improve the role of company audit committees and whether they should be mandatory.
Ms McGuinness said supervisors for auditors across the EU had found problems with internal quality control systems. They also found a lack of or inappropriate monitoring of high-risk audited entities and insufficient audit evidence and documentation, she added.
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The reopening of Paris museums this week finally gives billionaire tycoon Francois Pinault the chance to showcase his vast contemporary art collection in the French capital, with works
from stuffed pigeons to slowly melting chairs.
The museum s launch in a converted 19th-century commodities exchange, blocks away from the Louvre Museum, was put on hold twice
owing to the coronavirus pandemic after having suffered earlier planning mishaps, with an initial project abandoned in 2005.
Pinault, 84 – who made his fortune in timber trading before shifting into retail under the group now known as Kering, run by his son – joins rival French luxury goods tycoon Bernard Arnault in trying to stamp his legacy on Paris art scene and landscape, with museums and renovation projects.
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South-East Asia s biggest ride-hailing and food delivery firm, Grab Holdings, agreed to a merger on Tuesday with US-based Altimeter Growth Corporation in a deal that gives Grab an initial equity value of about $39.6 billion and will lead to a public listing.
The merger, the biggest blank cheque company deal ever, underscores the frenzy on Wall Street as shell firms have raised $99 billion in the United States so far this year after a record $83 billion in 2020.
Singapore-based Grab s agreement with a special purpose acquisition company backed by Altimeter Capital includes a more than $4bn private investment in public equity by investors including BlackRock, Fidelity International, Janus Henderson Investors and Temasek Holdings.
Apple tends to cater to the higher end of the (US) market; so it might grab a small portion of LG s sales, Gartner analyst Tuong Nguyen said. It s more likely that Samsung inherits a lot of it because both vendors compete across similar markets.
Globally, LG s market share shrank to 2 per cent in 2020, a massive drop from its status as the world s third-largest smartphone maker behind Samsung Electronics and Apple during its peak in 2013.
The company shipped 23 million phones last year, compared with Samsung s 256 million, according to Counterpoint.
Counterpoint analyst Tarun Pathak said LG was mostly competing in the mid-tier, as its flagship phones received tepid market response.
A number of companies say it disenfranchises some voters. Some, such as Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola, are based in Georgia, where state lawmakers have the power to raise state taxes. Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said in a public memo that his decision to speak out was informed by discussions with leaders and employees in the Black community.
The companies criticising the law so far represent a sliver of the US business landscape. Yet they are part of a growing group of companies shedding their reluctance to speak out on politically controversial social issues that matter to many of their employees and customers globally, business leaders interviewed by