HC-8.2.1

In each conventional bank licensee:

(a) The board must adopt written corporate governance guidelines covering the matters stated in this Module and Module PD and other corporate governance matters deemed appropriate by the board. Such guidelines must include or refer to the principles and rules of Module HC;
(b) The conventional bank licensee must publish the guidelines on its website;
(c) At each annual shareholders' meeting the board must report on the conventional bank licensee's compliance with its guidelines and Module HC, and explain the extent if any to which it has varied them or believes that any variance or noncompliance was justified; and
(d) At each annual shareholders' meeting the board must also report on further items listed in Module PD. Such information should be maintained on the conventional bank licensee's website or held at the conventional bank licensee's premises on behalf of the shareholders.
Amended: April 2017
October 2010