Improvements Seen in Corporate Governance in South Africa: IIF Highlights Need Now to Ensure Compliance with Regulatory Standards
September 11, 2007 — Improvements Seen in Corporate Governance in South Africa. IIF highlights need to ensure compliance with regulatory standards. The IIF's Equity Advisory Group released a new report on South African corporate governance today that shows distinct progress in recent years, but which underscores the need for further important improvements.
Significant Improvements Seen in Corporate Governance in Malaysia, IIF Advocates Further Reforms, Including Strengthening Enforcement
August 16, 2007 — Significant improvements seen in Malaysian corporate governance, but further actions are needed, notably in enforcement, states the IIF in a new report from its Equity Advisory Group. The report's recommendations relate to many aspects of the governance system in Malaysia, from actions by the regulatory authorities, to greater transparency, to corporate board reforms.
IIF Equity Advisory Group
The IIF's Equity Advisory Group (EAG) works to promote sound corporate governance practices in emerging markets by:
- Promoting the IIF Code of Corporate Governance (IIF Code)
- Assessing emerging market corporate governance frameworks (Country-specific Reports)
- Consulting stock exchanges to improve equity markets (GEM Assessments)
IIF Code of Corporate Governance
With the aim of improving corporate governance practices at the company and sovereign level, the IIF's Equity Advisory Group developed a set of practical guidelines for emerging market countries.
Country-Specific Corporate Governance Reports
A key part of the EAG's work is to provide country-specific assessments of corporate governance. To date, the EAG has set up Task Forces for 16 emerging market countries, and has published 16 country reports, 1 comparative report and 2 update assessments.
Read more about country-specific reports
Governance in Equity Markets (GEM) Service
GEM is the IIF's specialized consulting service for stock exchanges in emerging market countries. GEM enables a stock exchange to reach a broader audience of institutional investors who desire deeper confidence in corporate governance practices -” confidence in the corporate governance and transparency of an exchange's listed companies, the exchange's own corporate governance, and the exchange's surveillance and enforcement functions that monitor companies.
GEM helps bring stock exchanges into line with international best practices that will enable them to enhance minority shareholder protection, attract investors, and increase capital flows.
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