The UK Lens: Impairment, Judgement and the New Transparency As the UK’s regulatory climate sharpens, boards are under growing pressure to ensure their disclosures communicate judgment, rather than just compliance. Our Issue 101 Newsletter highlighted how the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are redefining ...

Weekly IRO and Annual Report Intelligence Date: Monday, 27 October 2025 Coverage window: 13–27 Oct 2025 (14 days) Scope: United Kingdom, India, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia Why this matters (fast take) Regulators have tightened the screws across three fronts that will shape what you publish and ...

Designing the Invisible Hand: Adam Smith trusted the invisible hand. SEBI prefers to design it, no longer letting the market’s invisible forces self-correct; it’s building the tech architecture that makes market trust possible. India’s capital markets are undergoing a quiet revolution. One not of headlines, but of ...

The “1992 moment” for corporate debt: why RBI’s draft ECB reform forces a capital-structure rethink Indian corporates have long treated offshore debt with caution, governed by ceilings on cost, rigid end-use lists and fragmented approvals. On October 3 2025, the Reserve Bank of India placed in the ...

Weekly IRO and Annual Report Intelligence Date: Monday, 13 October 2025 Coverage window: 06 October 2025 to 13 October 2025 Scope: United Kingdom, India, United Arab Emirates Dubai, Qatar, Saudi Arabia Why this matters The past week delivered concrete signals on market plumbing in the United ...

Navigating the UAE’s New Tax Baseline: How the IRO Must Lead the Enhanced Disclosure Narrative The financial landscape of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is undergoing a significant maturation, marked by the definitive establishment of corporate tax as a norm rather than a novelty. This regulatory shift ...

Date: Monday, 6 October 2025, India Standard Time Scope: India, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, with a global macro driver Dickenson World Mumbai | Dubai | London Why this matters Investor Relations and Annual Report drafting live in the space between facts and expectations. When policy ...

Opinion: India’s Stealthy Rise: The Power of Staying ‘Off the Dial’ How being ‘off the dial’ is helping India outmanoeuvre the global order The world’s great cities tick across the dials of luxury world-time watches-New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong. Even Karachi and Dhaka make the cut. But ...

Powering Progress: Unpacking India's Smart Meter Revolution An analysis of Dickenson’s event WattWise: Transforming India's Energy Landscape by Shankhini Saha (Director- Dickenson) Excerpt: Key Insights from India's Smart Meter Webinar India's ambitious smart meter deployment under the RDSS scheme is more than just a meter replacement program; ...

Navigating Geopolitical Uncertainty: Strategies for Investor Relations Teams in a Changing World Setting the Stage To the dedicated Investor Relations Officer (IRO), there is little that compares to the constant rumble of global disruption. One moment, an obscure regulatory update in Brussels changes supply-chain economics; the next, ...

Bridging the Grid: Smart Meters as the Catalyst for Clean Energy Integration India is on a mission to revolutionize its power grid with an ambitious goal of deploying 250 million smart meters by March 31, 2026. However, the journey is proving more complex than anticipated. Challenges in ...

Should Indian Companies Proceed with Their IPOs Amidst Market Volatility? Over the past two quarters, the Indian economy has witnessed challenges such as inflationary pressures, RBI interest rate hikes, and global market volatility due to geopolitical tensions. These factors have influenced investor sentiment and made it harder to ...