JOHN Quincy Adams, the sixth US president, once famously said that 'Congress should not be palsied by the will of our constituents'.

THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) last week unveiled the personalities appointed to serve on its new corporate governance council, which will be tasked with reviewing the corporate governance regime here - beginning with the Code of Corporate Governance.

MARKET watchers have long had a laundry list of all the things the Singapore Exchange could do to make the presentation of information on its website more accessible and less confounding.