BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce that Christiane Hölz will represent BETTER FINANCE and DSW, BETTER FINANCE’s German member organisation, at the Commission Expert Group on Technical Aspects of Corporate Governance Processes.
21 June 2017 - As it stands, a significant part of transferable shares in companies are managed through intermediaries due to legal or technical reasons and direct interaction between shareholders and the investee company is often costly, ineffective or impossible, particularly cross-border.
The recent revision of the Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD) is aimed at further facilitating interaction between listed companies and their shareholders, giving companies the right to identify their shareholders and requiring intermediaries to transmit information relating to the exercise of shareholder rights and facilitating the exercise of these rights.
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