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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We met Coty de Monteverde, Blockchain Centre of Excellence Director at Santander Digital, at the 2019 ICSA Annual Conference in London where she discussed the impact of blockchain in AGMs.
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Nick Ivory is one of the Company Secretarial Assistants at National Grid PLC, an organisation listed both in the UK and US.
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The importance of diversity to a successful board is now widely accepted – it helps avoid groupthink, improves discussion and challenges the conventional wisdom, as well as being a social and moral consideration.
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Anton Christoff is former Blockchain Technology Lead and Emerging Technology Strategist at KPMG UK, currently an Advisory Board Member of The British Blockchain Association and an advisor for several blockchain startups.
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By Caroline Evans FCIS, Founder of MindLeap. ‘Professional socialising’ – networking – can be fun!
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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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Fiona is the Company Secretary for Europe at Principal Global Investors.. She is also the Mentoring Coordinator for the Association of Women Chartered Secretaries having recently retired as President.
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Adi is founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain, a Gartner’s Global Top 20 Blockchain Consulting Firm based in London and Porto.
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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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We chatted with Robert L. Ford, MA FCIS TEP, an international corporate governance and business excellence senior executive based in Dubai.
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So far blockchain has been both a new technology that replaces old methods and a new technology that creates different fields of opportunity.
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“A good Company Secretary is one who is accustomed to providing an administrative, strategic and advisory function from the background.” says Natasha Jamal, Assistant Company Secretary at Smith & Nephew plc.
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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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This week we chatted with Venessa Denny from A2Dominion, who has a wealth of governance experience in the not-for-profit and property management sector.
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This week we chatted with Sharon Ah Lin, a chartered company secretary working at Rogers and Company Limited, a diversified holding listed on the Official List (i.e. the Main Board) of The Stock Exchange of Mauritius Ltd.
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Shareholder and board voting on blockchain. On the face of it it seems like a jolly good idea. Private blockchains can be ‘invite only’ and invited parties can be either Directors or shareholders or both.
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This week we chatted with Erika Percival, Group Company Secretary of Low & Bonar, a FTSE listed manufacturing company.
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By Caroline Evans FCIS, Founder of MindLeap. “Don’t hesitate, have a plan, take bite-size steps, push for new experiences and projects – but don't forget the day job!”
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Banks are already incorporating blockchain into some of their systems … but will a 100% blockchain bank ever happen? It may do, but if it does, it’ll happen incrementally.
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