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Deal-of-the-day website Groupon has added two accounting experts to its board after coming under increasing pressure from the US regulator and investors.

RSM Tenon group chairman Adrian Martin and non-executive director Michael Findlay will leave the company’s board after just three months into the job.

The chairman of the Institute of Directors (IoD), Dr Neville Bain, has said that the recovery of the UK economy into sustained growth will be driven by the fitness of company boards, and their

F&C Asset Management shareholders have voted in favour of activist shareholder Edward Bramson and his Sherborne investment vehicle taking charge of the company.

Investors in F&C Asset Management will this week decide the fate of the fund manager amid a proposed boardroom reshuffle at its AGM.

Stronger corporate governance is essential to ensuring the survival of charitable organisations during the recession, argues Gillian Donald.

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