Noting that inferior corporate governance attributed to the current global economic downturn, the Foreign Equities Division presented the strategies it is taking to improve transparency and social responsibility in the governance of publicly listed businesses. The Foreign Equities Division is working to enhance the accountability of executive officers to the owners of the business enterprise, pointing out that the Foreign Equities Division is currently treating such efforts with utmost urgency.

The global economic downturn afforded many organizations with challenges associated with corporate governance. Specifically, administrative boards did not carefully evaluate the choices made by senior management on tackling risks. Of similar interest, administrative boards usually seem to misinterpret the seriousness of risks being taken. Senior management gets larger earnings at face value without assessing the reason for such increased earnings that were possible for purportedly secure investments and strategies. Additionally, several administrative boards are unsuccessful in their principal function of thoroughly controlling management. Consequently, a lot of managers tackled too much risk and made judgments that were not focused on the long-term.

The Foreign Equities Division established a clear practical meaning of corporate governance as being about sustaining a suitable balance of responsibility between the enterprise's owners, the directors whom the owners elect, and the managers whom the directors select. Responsibility necessitates not only good transparency, but also efficient measures to take action for mediocre productivity or poor decision making.

This terminology refers into a discussion of the effectiveness of the stakeholder access proposal by the Foreign Equities Division which is part of commendable corporate governance. The Foreign Equities Division deems that the most practicable approach for guaranteeing that enterprises are responsible and held liable is to make that the stakeholders’ vote is both significant and without restraint applied, the reason why the Foreign Equities Division proposed rules omitting hindrances to stakeholders’ facility to nominate candidates for the administrative boards of their companies.

With this proposition, stakeholders who otherwise are afforded the privilege to select directors at a stakeholder meeting would, subject to particular qualification and routine requisites, be able to have their candidates included in the company proxy that is sent to all voters. Stakeholders would also have the facility to use the stakeholder proposal procedure to revise the company's selection process or disclosure about elections, so long as those proposals do not violate any law or Foreign Equities Division rules.

The Foreign Equities Division has also proposed a sequence of supplementary procedures intending to enhance proxy disclosure and the framework by which stakeholders utilize their vote. These revised disclosures would comprise of extended information about the engagements between a company's overall compensation policies and the company's risk profile; the attributes of directors, executive officers and nominees; the board's leadership formation; and possible conflicts of interests of compensation consultants.

The proposals by Foreign Equities Division are in maintaining with advanced principles on the successful governance of compensation, which is a key element of commendable corporate governance. The Foreign Equities Division endorses the efforts requiring the corresponding alignment of compensation with cautious risk taking and the strategic supervisory oversight and engagement by stakeholders. Consecutively, the Foreign Equities Division’s principles have been endorsed and recently issued a statement calling for a structure on corporate governance and executive compensation practices developed to avoid short-term risk taking and assuage systemic risk.

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