Claire mourns the likely departure of Tate & Lyle from the London Stock Exchange in 2027, while taking inspiration for the future of reporting from what the company has taught her throughout her career.
To round off our webinar series, and ahead of the 2026/7 reporting season, we heard from companies that have begun to use generative AI responsibly in their reporting. How did they develop their responsible approach? What are they using it for – and what are they not? How are they ensuring that the facts are accurate and the opinions truly those of management and the Board? FW Founder Claire Bodanis and Diana Rose from Insig AI discussed these and other questions with Alia Fazal, Head of Corporate Governance at BP, and Louise Riordan, Head of Corporate Communications at Informa.
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.
Claire pays tribute to the late Neil Duffy, who died nine years ago today and whose support and wise counsel are ever more sorely missed.
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 sees warnings for our corporate world and wider democracy in the horrific attacks on and daily experiences of our Jewish neighbours – but takes inspiration from imagining the role we could all play in 2026 to change that.
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.
Claire mourns the likely departure of Tate & Lyle from the London Stock Exchange in 2027, while taking inspiration for the future of reporting from what the company has taught her throughout her career.