Diligent News

AUGUST 11, 2021

Diligent Partners with Law Debenture to Improve Governance Support Services

Partnership brings global reach, enhanced security and governance expertise to clients

New York, NY and London, UK — August 11, 2021 — Diligent Corporation, the global leader in SaaS governance, risk and compliance today announced its partnership with Law Debenture (LawDeb), a leading global provider of independent professional services. The partnership will leverage Diligent’s governance software platforms and LawDeb’s services and expertise to improve the client experience by providing turnkey solutions that will enable businesses to scale with confidence.
AUGUST 10, 2021

Diligent Introduces the Most Comprehensive ESG Solution on Modern GRC Platform

NEW YORK, NY – August 10, 2021 – Diligent Corporation, the global leader in SaaS governance, risk and compliance (GRC), announced today the launch of the marketplace’s most comprehensive ESG software solution – Diligent ESG – on its governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform. Diligent ESG is powered in part by the newly announced acquisition of Accuvio and builds on the company’s recent acquisitions of Galvanize and Steele Compliance.
AUGUST 10, 2021

Diligent Acquires ESG Leader Accuvio to Enhance Climate Reporting Capabilities

NEW YORK, NY and LIMERICK, IE. – August 10, 2021 – Diligent Corporation, the global leader in SaaS governance, risk and compliance (GRC), today announced that it has acquired Accuvio, a leading environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data aggregation and reporting software company. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
july 27, 2021

Galvanize’s HighBond Debuts on AWS Marketplace

VANCOUVER, July 27, 2021 – Galvanize, a Diligent brand and a global leader in SaaS governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software, today announces its AI-powered HighBond platform listing on AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS).
july 08, 2021

Diligent Announces Appointment of Yvette Hollingsworth Clark to its Board of Directors

New York, NY — July 8, 2021 — Diligent Corporation, the global leader in SaaS governance, risk and compliance today announced the appointment of Yvette Hollingsworth Clark as its newest independent board member. Hollingsworth Clark brings extensive risk management and compliance experience and insights from her leadership roles across the financial services industry.
june 29, 2021

Diligent’s Modern Leadership Initiative Adds New LGBTQ+ Leadership Partners to Expand Visibility into Diverse, Board-Ready Talent

Collaboration aims to fill director seats with openly LGBTQ+ executives, who currently represent less than one percent of leaders in the Fortune 500 NEW YORK – June 29, 2021 – Diligent Corporation, the global leader in SaaS governance, risk and compliance, announced the addition of three new LGBTQ+ partners – Gaingels, Harvard Business School (HBS) LGBT Alumni Association and Out Leadership – to its growing Modern Leadership initiative which was created to further increase diverse representation at the executive and board levels for global businesses.
june 24, 2021

Diligent Announces Third Annual Modern Governance 100 Program

New award categories introduced to honor global governance, risk, compliance and audit professionals across all industries

WASHINGTON – June 24, 2021 – Diligent Corporation, the global leader in SaaS governance, risk and compliance today, announced the opening of nominations for the third annual Modern Governance 100 program.

june 16, 2021

Diligent Launches Corporate Sentiment Tracker to Gauge Leadership Views on Issues Topping the Corporate Agenda

New tool highlights popular corporate news topics and measures the level of ‘positivity’ felt about trending issues such as ESG and climate change

NEW YORK, NY – June 16, 2021 – Diligent Corporation, the global leader in SaaS governance, risk and compliance, today announced the launch of its Corporate Sentiment Tracker. The AI-powered tracker was created by the Diligent Institute, the global corporate governance research arm and think tank of Diligent, to provide insight and sentiment scores on trending news topics and issues such as ESG, diversity, climate change, AI, cryptocurrency, COVID-19 and more.

june 15, 2021

Diligent Commits to World Economic Forum’s Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics

Company also becomes a platform partner and pledges to report about ESG metrics

NEW YORK – June 15, 2021 – Diligent Corporation, the global leader in SaaS governance, risk and compliance (GRC), today announced its pledge to adopt and implement the Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics developed by the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council (IBC). Diligent also joins the World Economic Forum as a platform partner helping to drive public-private collaboration and shape a better future. This commitment underscores the importance of providing transparency into and measuring and reporting progress of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

may 27, 2021

Diligent’s Modern Leadership Initiative Adds New Partners to Advance Gender Equality in Leadership Positions in Europe

Partnerships with Spanish organizations to address gaps in board roles for women and pinpoint opportunities to improve equality at the executive level

NEW YORK, NY – May 27, 2021 – Diligent Corporation, the global leader in SaaS governance, risk and compliance, today announced the addition of four new partners, all based in Spain – Esade Center for Corporate Governance , Fundación Woman Forward, Instituto de Gobernanza Empresarial and WomenCEO – in its growing Modern Leadership initiative, which was created to further increase diverse representation in global businesses at the executive and board levels.