Your ten-minute power-read for December 2025 Food for thought Our global food system is unsustainable. Its practices are inflexible, inefficient, and inequitable — but they don’t have to be. Read, click, and scroll on to explore the four keys to a better food system, and to see how a mixture of fresh ideas, nutritious cross-industry collaboration, and…
The Internal Revenue Service has provided an electronic way to file a protective claim for a possible tax refund related to the COVID-19 pandemic ahead of a July 10 deadline that may depend on court rulings. Processing Content The IRS added Form 843, “Claim for Refund and Request for Abatement,” to its Mobile Friendly Forms…
Your next move Make trust a boardroom topic. Although it’s impossible to fully inoculate a company against losses of stakeholder trust, many CEOs could do more to anticipate and proactively address potential areas of vulnerability. As our analysis demonstrates, trust isn’t an intangible soft topic. Value is at stake. This means trust should be prioritised as a boardroom topic…
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee announced that it will hold a meeting on Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 10 a.m. to explore ways to modernize public market access and encourage IPOs and small public company capital formation. The meeting will be open to the public and held at the SEC’s headquarters at…
The IRS announced it will soon automatically abate three types of penalties — failure to file, failure to pay, and failure to deposit — for taxpayers with a history of timely compliance. The new process, called automatic exemption from penalty (AEP), replaces the long-standing first-time abatement (FTA) process, the IRS said in a Wednesday news…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would make a long-shot bid to get the Supreme Court to rehear the case in which it ruled against his executive order that sought to sharply restrict birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court on June 30 held that babies born in the United States are automatically citizens under the…
Alternative asset managers have provided the Bank of England with detailed data on private markets investments across 520 UK companies, as the central bank examines the potential economic impact of a downturn in private markets, according to a report by Bloomberg. The companies covered by the exercise generate more than £230bn in revenue and include…
Stephen J. Beaver, SVP, General Counsel and CLO of Benchmark Electronics (BHE +0.97%), reported his largest disposition so far of the company’s common stock, according to a SEC Form 4 filing on June 11, 2026. Transaction summary Metric Value Shares sold (direct) 20,000 Transaction value $1.7 million Post-transaction shares (direct) 75,020 Post-transaction value (direct ownership)…
The intersection of national security and public finance has rarely felt more friction-laden. Former Defence Secretary John Healey’s recent resignation has brought a brewing institutional clash to the surface: the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) push for innovative, external capital mechanisms versus the Treasury’s unyielding commitment to fiscal discipline. At the heart of the dispute was…
As you get older, your spending on healthcare often tends to increase. That’s why you need to factor in the cost of medical services as you prepare for retirement. Unfortunately, many people make a serious mistake. They assume Medicare will provide comprehensive coverage that pays for everything they need. Sadly, this is far from the…