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The Chartered Governance Institute definition

What does The Chartered Governance Institute mean? In legal practice, The Chartered governance Institute UK & Ireland (often, the Chartered Governance Institute; formerly icsa: the governance institute and, earlier, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators) is the professional body for company secretaries and practitioners in corporate governance, risk and compliance. Its chartered qualifications and post‑nominals (ACG/FCG) are widely used as evidence of competence for board‑facing roles and are relied on by law firms and in‑house legal teams. This is a descriptive term, not a defined term in legislation or case law. However, in the UK, Companies Act 2006 section 273 recognises “the Institute of...

UK MAR-Compliant Specimen Dealing Code for Listed and Quoted Companies: Clearance Procedures, Closed Periods and Article 19 Notification Templates for PDMRs and PCAs

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‘specimen’ dealing code

This Precedent is a memorandum outlining the particulars of the ‘specimen’ dealing code. The specimen dealing code is the outcome of an industry-led development of codes, guidance and best practice prepared by The Chartered Governance Institute (formerly known as ICSA: The Governance Institute), GC100, the Quoted Companies Alliance and other market participants, who collectively agreed that it would be of considerable benefit for listed and quoted companies to be able to turn to an equivalent version of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Model Code. As a consequence of the implementation of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 on 3 July 2016, the FCA deleted the Model Code. Companies with a former premium listing of equity shares were required to comply with the Model Code, which restricted persons discharging managerial responsibilities (PDMRs) from dealing in the companies’ securities. The working assumption is that listed companies will apply the dealing code to PDMRs and to those other individuals whom they wish to be covered by the company’s process when PDMRs and those other individuals deal in the company’s securities...

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