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According to all available estimates, incumbent president Emmanuel Macron (around 27% of votes) and radical right candidate Marine Le Pen (around 23%) will fight it off in the second round of the presidential election on 24 April. Macron is still likely to prevail in the runoff, but the race is…
Welcome to Teneo's UK ESG Insights. Each fortnight, we’ll help you to cut through the noise around ESG by exploring some key market developments and the implications for companies. Disclosure Standards Alignment Last Week, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) – a constituent of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation…
Japan has continued its maximalist response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this week calling out “war crimes” and further ramping up financial and economic sanctions. Recent events have undone years of Japanese efforts to improve ties with its northern neighbor, while the downturn in relations has had the least impact…
Beijing has made a significant concession to Washington by revising rules that prevented US regulators from inspecting audit papers on US-listed Chinese companies. But even the revised rules may not satisfy Washington's requirement for unfettered access, since Chinese authorities must still grant permission on a case-by-case basis for Chinese companies…
This week, Mexico holds a presidential recall referendum that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) hopes will recharge his authority; separately, Mexico’s Supreme Court could make an important ruling on the constitutionality of electricity reforms. In Brazil, an expansion of an important cash transfer program is…
The EU will impose new sanctions on Russia. The Chinese army has deployed medical personnel to Shanghai. Presidential elections will be held in France. Kenya’s constitutional court has ruled the BBI reform project unconstitutional. Meanwhile, in Japan the new structure of the Tokyo Stock Exchange went into effect, Germany will…
The Chinese government now appears unlikely to make a decisive shift away from its zero-Covid policy before November. An editorial in the official Xinhua news service on 28 March emphasized President Xi Jinping’s personal role in directing the policy, making any shift unlikely until after the…
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors and former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council; Carsten Nickel, Teneo Managing Director and expert on Europe; Orson Porter, Teneo Senior Managing Director and government affairs expert; and Andrius Tursa, Teneo’s Central & Eastern Europe Advisor…
Our bi-weekly spotlight explores key ESG-related market developments and their implications for corporates and investors. ESG in the News The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission proposed a climate-related disclosure rule for U.S. publicly traded companies and certain foreign issuers. The rule – an effort to standardize company ESG disclosures…
Teneo Senior Advisor Juliette Kayyem, faculty chair of the Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, CNN national security analyst and Pulitzer Prize finalist, joined our resident crisis management expert Alisa Charkova, Senior Vice President, Teneo Risk EMEA, to discuss the importance of…
Disruptions to grain and oilseeds exports from the Ukraine war are exacerbating pre-existing shortages and food inflation resulting from the pandemic, higher energy and shipping costs, and climate events. Reductions in fertilizer exports from Russia and Belarus due to sanctions are further driving up prices and threatening crop yields. The…
Russian and Ukrainian delegations will resume their talks. Hungarians are going to the polls. Ethiopia has declared a humanitarian truce for the Tigray region. Meanwhile, a two-stage lockdown has been announced in the Chinese city of Shanghai, incumbents are expected to fare well in the Serbian elections, executive-legislative tensions have…
