What are the legalities of executing contracts within organisations? In this blog, we discuss the meaning of contracts, the fundamentals of contract management and the role of authorised signatories of signers in the process.
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What is an authorized signatory? Simply put, an authorized signatory or signer is a person who’s been given the right to sign documents on behalf of the authorizing organisation. However, the term’s meaning and interpretation seem to vary significantly across different jurisdictions and industries. So, in today’s blog, we’ve put together an overview of some of the most common uses of the term.
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How is the role of internal audit evolving in the post-pandemic corporate world? And what’s the connection between internal audit and signatory authorisation? We attempt to answer these questions and more in the discussion below.
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Exploring the benefits that blockchain could bring to corporate governance and how it could offer smart solutions for classical sector inefficiencies, especially in the relationship between shareholders and the company.
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In business the all-encompassing notion that the signature is a 100% accurate representation of authorisation is an issue. This misconception that if someone has signed, stamped or printed their name on an official piece of business, they must have been authorised to do so.
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A piece that outlines how Cygnetise can help you reduces the admin burden and costs whilst mitigating the risk of fraud for your organisation. Read more.
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Viviane Joynes is MD at EQS Group. In this interview she talks about regtech, women in the boardroom and that time she ran 3,850km across Europe.
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Independently written by Bird Lovegod. When I was invited to write a blog piece for Cygnetise, I thought to do a little research. So I Google ‘what is an authorised signatory list’.
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The first ‘signature system’ could have been when ancient peoples made positive handprints on walls in caves, a global technology trend from around 40,000 years ago.
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Governance by walking around, or GBWA, mirrors the approach of Management By Wandering Around, a well established method of being involved and present in organisations, with an additional level of seeing the organisation from multiple stakeholders positions.
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Last week we wrote about the problem of authorised signatory fraud. In this week’s blog we offer a series of points on how to prevent it. For individuals, SMEs, and small organisations and charities, the below is the best piece of advice we can give.
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It’s almost a misnomer to call it ‘signatory’ fraud, in a digitised workplace it’s not the signature that counts, it’s more of an identity fraud, an impersonation fraud.
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An infographic on gender diversity in the boardroom and why it matters.
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Cygnetise CEO Steve Pomfret was interviewed by Business and Finance, Ireland’s leading business magazine, at the Temenos Conference.
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Last week Cygnetise presented at “The Future of Wealth” conference organised by the International Banking Forum and PwC in Jersey. The event focused on the seismic changes caused by structural reform, the fintech revolution and what this means for businesses charged with growing international wealth.
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If you are the person in your organisation (most likely a Company Secretary) who is responsible for managing authorised signatory lists, chances are you are familiar with the pain associated with maintaining and distributing them (internally and externally).
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D-Day for GDPR is almost here. Starting on the 25th of May, the new data protection law will become effective, and we wanted to take a closer to look at how it will affect Company Secretaries specifically.
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Last week we attended the 2018 ICSA Conferences in Managing risk, leading change in Jersey and Guernsey. Here are some of the highlights.
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A look at the validity of NDA documentation today.
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