Claire was hoping to give her take on the DBT’s Modernisation of Corporate Reporting Review consultation in this month’s blog, but it hasn’t landed yet. Nonetheless, we thought you might find a status update useful. ‍

Our research found that most companies who gave their teams access to generative AI tools – Copilot and internal chatbots being the most common – were doing so with little training and few guidelines. In such cases, many people found that using AI created more work than it saved. That was a year ago. But with AI training in any context very much in the public eye, what’s changed? Sharing their insights and experiences with webinar hosts Claire Bodanis, founder of FW and Diana Rose, were Peter Swabey FCG, Policy & Research Director at the UK’s Chartered Governance Institute, and Jaime Tham, recently Group Company Secretary at Kier Group.

The DBT’s Modernisation of Corporate Reporting Review should be coming our way soon. Claire explains how you can influence it; and gives an update on Trust me, I’m listed for the age of AI. ‍

To disclose or not to disclose? That is – or was – the question discussed at our January webinar on the responsible use of generative AI in corporate reporting. Clearly a popular one, given not only the attendance, but also the coverage! Claire summarises it here.

A hot topic in our focus groups with companies and investors was the value, or otherwise, of disclosing the use of generative AI in reporting. In the second of our four-part webinar series, FW founder Claire Bodanis hosted a discussion with research partner Diana Rose who gave an update on AI tools, Martin Blaxall, Director, Corporate Brand and Communications, AstraZeneca, who talked about the results of their trials of AI tools in reporting; and Freddie Woolfe, Jupiter Asset Management, who gave his perspective as an investor on what he would want to know.

Claire offers a handmade Christmas present to all reporters, and the Department for Business and Trade’s corporate reporting review team. Says Claire: ‘Enormous thanks to the 50+ FTSE companies, technical and regulatory experts, auditors and investors, whose contributions greatly improved my own handiwork.’

In the first in our new, four-part webinar series, FW founder Claire Bodanis and research partner Diana Rose of Insig AI discussed FW’s new proposal for the reform of reporting, and how to make best use of AI, with Jonathan Labrey, who leads the IFRS Foundation’s integrated reporting effort ; and Ida Woodger, Group Company Secretary of FTSE 100 company, Intertek. FW’s proposal will be sent to the UK Government ahead of the launch in the new year of the consultation on its ‘Modernisation of Corporate Reporting’ review.