What one executive has called “a drumbeat” building for corporate-governance reforms by owners got a little louder in the past week when an analyst challenged Scorpio Tankers management during its quarterly earnings call.

Amit Mehrotra of Deutsche Bank took the occasion to press Scorpio (ticker symbol: STNG) over a structure that provides insiders with sale-and-purchase (S&P) commissions and management fees derived from the public company.

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