HMRC has named internal candidate Ruth Stanier as the department’s new director general of customer strategy and tax design, replacing Jim Harra who left the job eight months ago

US retailing giant Walmart has sued its former chief tax officer for violating her employment contract by defecting to online rival Amazon to become one of its senior tax executives

Listed companies will have to justify their chief executives’ salaries and reveal the gap to their average UK worker, under new laws to be laid in Parliament, as part of the government’s bid to improve business transparency and accountability

HMRC employs more women than the average across the civil service but has not achieved gender parity at the highest levels of the department, according to analysis from a new civil service diversity and inclusion dashboard

PwC and KPMG have both indicated that they will no longer accept all-male lists of applicants for jobs in the UK in an attempt to increase the number of women in senior roles

The new head of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been named as Lisa Osofsky, who has dual UK-US citizenship, and has over 30 years’ experience of focussing on financial crime, including periods with the FBI and Goldman Sachs

Shareholder protests against excessive executive pay deals are increasing, with a quarter of FTSE 100 companies receiving more than a 20% vote against a pay resolution, three times as many as in 2017, according to a mid-season report from PwC

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee (MPC) has run into controversy after appointing the only man on a five-strong shortlist to fill a vacancy, despite having just one woman among the nine members responsible for rate-setting

Just one in five individuals being proposed for senior financial services positions are women according to research by Pinsent Masons, while the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has described some of the reasons given for low levels of female representation on FTSE 350 boards as ‘outrageous’

Chief executive of The Pensions Regulator (TPR), Lesley Titcomb, will leave her role at the end of February in 2019, after facing criticism over the handling of Carillion’s pension scheme following the outsourcing company’s collapse

The rules on company voluntary arrangements, a common High Street insolvency procedure, need to be reformed to prevent abuse of the procedure which allows companies to restructure debt instead of going into administration

MPs are urging the Financial Conduct Authority to step up its oversight of the transfer of funds from defined benefit pension schemes to self invested personal pension (SIPPs) to stop abuse of the system following pension freedoms