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Dual-SDD, Banks – Nishant Shah Comments in Mint.
Mr Nishant Shah, CEO, on SEBI requirement for banks to maintain two separate SDD or Structured Digital Databases under SEBI PIT.

Challenges of Organizing and Convening Board Meetings
Challenges in organizing board and governance meetings from notices to agenda to conduct to minutes and circulating and feedback.

Types of Voting in Committees.
Simple majority, unanimous, weighted, first-past-the-post, secret or consensus voting. What does it all mean?

Minutes of a Meeting – Quite a Task.
Minuting a meeting is not a simple administrative task, requires a high level of attention to detail, accuracy, and compliance.

Why We Need Boards, Committees, Meetings or Minutes at All.
Why do we need boards, committees, and meetings in the first place – the governance ‘why’.

SEBI PIT Employee Trading Compliance Software
Central SEBI Insider Trading Compliances; SDD, Designated Person, Trade Pre-Clearances, Tracking. Monitoring, Gray List and BENPOS.

Employee Trade Pre-Clearance; THE Internally Deployed Software Suite
Watch the 60 second video on Affinis, the PREMIER suite of compliance trade pre-clearance applications designed for internal deployment.

UPSI – The List Expands
The definition of UPSI has grown to include items that may otherwise have been considered operational in nature.

Conflict of Interest? Seriously?!
Ethics compliance concerns for conflicts of interest may arise from unknown quarters. A pre-approval process is a chance to head off issues.

Outside Business Activities; Why, Exactly, Is Approval Required?
Understanding employee ethics compliance pre-approval for managing potential conflicts of interest in outside business activities.

FCPA – What Exactly Is It?
Explore FCPA compliance, anti-bribery laws, and how businesses can manage compliance with ethical gift and entertainment practices.

Gift, Entertainment Policies – What Does it Mean, Really?
Understand gift and entertainment compliance, its role in corporate and employee ethics compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws
