Rethinking: corporate governance in Pakistan
"Good corporate governance, it's about being proper and prosper" - Toba Beta. On 23 April 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has issued the draft Listed Companies (Code…
Closer Hong Kong-China ties create corporate governance challenges
Hong Kong's ever-closer relationship with mainland China may be good for business, but it poses growing corporate governance challenges for the former British colony, which this weekend marks 20 years…
Draft Listed Companies: (Code of Corporate Governance) Regulations – 2019
The number of companies of which one could be a director of is five in the present code. There is no restriction on the number of directorships in subsidiaries of…
Corporate Governance Codes, Rules And Privatisation Impact On Pscs
Globally, over the years, high profile corporate failures brought the importance of bringing best practices of corporate governance in order to ensure long-term stability, profitability and sustainability of the companies.…
Corporate governance and accountability: reform SECP
In recent weeks debate over corporate political spending gained attention after Jahangir Khan Tareen, a prominent politician, industrialist and the secretary general of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, has been accused of using…
Corporate governance and SECP: Forcing out the bad
In today's world, the concept of corporate governance has attracted an extraordinary public attention. A topic that not too long-ago, dismissed as a fad limited to the halls of academia,…
Effective risk management through corporate governance
Risk management can be described as being concerned with identifying and managing a firm’s exposure to financial risk. Corporate governance is often described as the set of rules, structures and…
Proper corporate governance needed for micro-finance sector
Recent upheavals in the global financial sector and emerging signals for more chaotic conditions in the folds of the financial institutions of the economically rich countries, particularly of the US…
Checks and balances in firms for good corporate governance
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge in his book, "The company: a history of a revolutionary idea," foresees three different features of a company. He first holds that a handful of…
Stunted governance, stunted economy
Even after 60 years of financial market development, the local companies are still a small part of the market at about 30%. The KSE-100 is dominated by 31 family-owned companies,…
