[ONLINE] The Tenants of Corporate Governance – 18 February

This webinar about Corporate Governance guides its audience through the basics of Boardroom Principles up to Effective Practice, providing a comprehensive examination of how companies are directed, controlled and held accountable. With particular emphasis on the Maltese legal and regulatory environment, the webinar explores the duties and functions of directors, board effectiveness, shareholder and stakeholder rights, transparency, risk management, internal controls and the role of the company secretary. It also identifies common governance weaknesses and provides practical measures for strengthening board oversight, compliance culture and organisational resilience. The session concludes with an examination of the MFSA Corporate Governance Code, ESG considerations and the relationship between corporate governance, compliance and AML-CFT.

Target Audience

This webinar is mostly intended to directors and all company stakeholders as its principal audience, but it will also be particularly relevant to Compliance officers, MLROs, risk officers and internal auditors working within governance, risk, compliance and AML-CFT frameworks, corporate service providers and professionals dealing with companies.

Take Aways

By the end of the webinar, participants should have a clearer understanding of:

• the meaning, purpose and principal components of corporate governance;
• the difference between governance and day-to-day management;
• the legal, regulatory and soft-law sources that shape corporate governance;
• the respective roles of shareholders, directors, management and the company secretary;
• the principal functions and statutory duties of directors.
• the importance of board composition, independence, constructive challenge and effective chairmanship;

• how transparency, disclosure, accountability and fairness support confidence in a company;
• common indicators of weak governance and the consequences that may follow;
• practical measures that boards can adopt to strengthen internal governance, risk management and control systems;

• the relevance of the MFSA Corporate Governance Code to authorised entities; and
• the relationship between governance, ESG, compliance and AML-CFT.