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2020

Regulatory letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
December 22, 2020	Erkki Liikanen, Chair International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation	Sustainability Reporting – Establishing a Sustainability Standards Board
October 5, 2020	Employee Benefits Security Administration	Fiduciary Duties Regarding Proxy Voting and Shareholder Rights
September 28, 2020	The Financial Conduct Authority	UK Proposals to Enhance Climate-related Disclosures
September 5, 2020	Ontario Capital Markets Modernization Task Force	Sign-On Letter - Improving Issuers' ESG Performance & the Regulatory Structures
September 1, 2020	European Supervisory Authorities (ESA)	European Supervisory Authorities Joint Consultation on ESG Disclosures
July 30, 2020	U.S. Department of Labor, Jeanne Klinefelter Wilson, Assistant Secretary	DOL Amendments to How Retirement Plans Use ESG Funds
July 21, 2020	Federal Reserve System, Honorable Jerome H. “Jay” Powell, Chairman, Board of Governors	Sign-on Letter Regarding Financial Regulators for Action on Climate Risk

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
December 23, 2020	Vanessa A. Countryman, Secretary	Adopt Nasdaq Stock Exchange Board Diversity Listing Standards
August 21, 2020	Chairman Clayton and Secretary Countryman	Modernization of Regulation S-K Items 101, 103 and 105 - Follow-Up Letter
February 3, 2020	Securities and Exchange Commission – Vanessa A Countryman, Secretary	Proposed Rules on Proxy Advisors and Shareholder Proposal Submission Thresholds

2019

Legislative letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
November 18, 2019	Committee on Financial Services	Letter of Support for the Investment Adviser Alignment Act
January 23, 2019	Committee on Financial Services	H.R. 625 Promoting Transparent Standards for Corporate Insiders Act

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
October 26, 2019	Securities and Exchange Commission – Vanessa A Countryman, Secretary	Modernization of Reg. S-K, Items 101, 103 & 105 – Human Capital Management Metrics
October 15, 2019	Securities and Exchange Commission	CII Sign-on Letter Regarding Proxy Advisor Regulation
September 23, 2019	Securities and Exchange Commission – Division of Corporation Finance	Letter to Director William Hinman on Rule 14a-8 No-Action Requests

2018

Regulatory letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
September 10, 2018	Public Company Accounting Oversight Board	PCAOB Draft Strategic Plan 2018-22

Stock exchange letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
November 20, 2018	New York Stock Exchange	Request NYSE to Amend Listing Standards on Multi-class Shares – Sunset Provisions
November 20, 2018	Nasdaq	Request Nasdaq to Amend Listing Standards on Multi-class Shares – Sunset Provisions
April 30, 2018	Tokyo Stock Exchange and Financial Services Agency	Revision of Japan’s Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes
April 25, 2018	Singapore Stock Exchange	Proposed Listing Framework for Dual Class Share Structures
April 3, 2018	Monetary Authority of Singapore	Proposed amendments to the Singapore Exchange Listing Rules and Corporate Governance Code

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
November 30, 2018	Securities and Exchange Commission	Roundtable on the Proxy Process, File Number 4-725
February 1, 2018	Securities and Exchange Commission	Section 1504 of Dodd-Frank Act Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers

2017

Legislative letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
November 9, 2017	Committee on Financial Services	Sign-on Letter regarding Proposed legislation Relating Proxy Advisory Firms
June 5, 2017	United States House of Representatives	Letter of opposition to the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017
May 17, 2017	United States House of Representatives	Sign-on Letter to CII’s opposition to the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017
April 25, 2017	United States House of Representatives	Letter to Maxine Waters, Ranking Member, House Committee on Financial Services
January 10, 2017	United States House of Representatives	H.R. 78, SEC Regulatory Accountability Act

Regulatory letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
December 29, 2017	Sustainability Accounting Standards Board	Financial Sector: Asset Management & Custody Activities
December 15, 2017	International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants	Code Pertaining to the Offering and Accepting Inducements by Auditors
September 9, 2017	Public Company Accounting Oversight Board	Proposed Auditing Standard for Auditing Accounting Estimates, Including Fair Measurements
September 9, 2017	Public Company Accounting Oversight Board	Proposed Amendments to Auditing Standards for Auditor’s Use of the Work of Specialists
August 31, 2017	MSCI Equity Index Committee	MSCI Consultation - Non-voting Shares
August 9, 2017	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	EPA Oil and Natural Gas Sector Emission Standards
July 13, 2017	Financial Services Agency	Japanese Disclosure System Questionnaire
May 6, 2017	Financial Services Agency	Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors, Japan Stewardship Code

Stock exchange letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
August 17, 2017	Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited	New Board on HKEX, Changes to GEM and Main Board Listing Rules
August 1, 2017	Nasdaq	Nasdaq Shareholder Approval Rules Rule 5635(d)
April 14, 2017	Singapore Exchange Limited	SGX's Public Consultation on Dual Class Share Structure

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
December 4, 2017	Securities and Exchange Commission	Sexual Harassment and Misconduct
August 23, 2017	Securities and Exchange Commission	SEC PCAOB Audit Report Adoption
July 10, 2017	Securities and Exchange Commission	Human Capital Management Disclosures Rulemaking Petition
July 6, 2017	Securities and Exchange Commission	Human Capital Management Coalition
June 27, 2017	Securities and Exchange Commission	Human Capital Management Coalition
March 22, 2017	Securities and Exchange Commission	Pay Ratio Final Rule Implementaion
January 9, 2017	Securities and Exchange Commission	S7-24-16, Proposed SEC Rule, Universal Proxies

2016

Legislative letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
June 13, 2016	House Committee on Financial Services	HR 5311 – Regulation of Proxy Advisory Firms

Regulatory letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
December 15, 2016	Regierungs-kommission – German Commission	German Corporate Governance Code (sign-on)
August 12, 2016	Public Company Accounting Oversight Board	Auditor Reporting – Enhancements  - Expanded Reporting
May 16, 2016	International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board	Professional Skepticism
April 18, 2016	Bundestag – Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany (Kunast)	Corporate Governance standards (sign-on)
April 18, 2016	Bundestag – Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany (Hirte)	Corporate Governance standards (sign-on)
January 14, 2016	International Corporate Governance Network	Global Stewardship Code

Stock exchange letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
November 29, 2016	Tokyo Stock Exchange	Increasing Flexibility of Earnings Reports and Quarterly Earnings (sign-on)
February 18, 2016	Nasdaq	Improve Shareholder Approval Rules
February 5, 2016	Taiwan Stock Exchange	Stewardship Principles

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission letters

Date	Addressed to	Subject
November 18, 2016	Securities and Exchange Commission	Disclosure Update and Simplification (Regulation S-K)
October 31, 2016	Securities and Exchange Commission	Subpart 400 of Regulation S-K Disclosure Requirements
July 21, 2016	Securities and Exchange Commission	S7-06-16 Business and Financial Disclosure Required by Regulation S-K
July 21, 2016	Securities and Exchange Commission	Climate Risk Disclosures Required by Regulation S-K (Sign-on)
April 14, 2016	Securities and Exchange Commission	Transfer Agent Regulations
March 10, 2016	Securities and Exchange Commission	Market Alternatives (Exchange), Investors’ Exchange (IEX)
March 8, 2016	Securities and Exchange Commission	Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers

2015

Regulatory letter

Date	Addressed to	Subject
August 27, 2015	Public Company Accounting Oversight Board	Form AP Auditors Signature

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