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Corporate Governance Best-Practice Principles for Securities Firms  CH

Amended Date: 2023.02.08 (Articles 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 10-1, 18, 24, 27, 28-4, 37, 37-2, 37-3, 40, 51, 62, 63 amended,English version coming soon)
Current English version amended on 2021.05.04 
Categories: Corporate Governance
   Chapter VII      Ancillary Rules
      Section 3    Corporate Governance Relationships Between the Company and Its Affiliated Ente
Article 14    A securities firm shall clearly identify its management objectives and the allocation of authorities and responsibilities over personnel, assets and financial matters of its affiliated enterprises, and shall conduct risk evaluation and establish appropriate firewalls.
Article 15    Unless otherwise provided by the laws and regulations, a manager of a securities firm may not serve as a manager of its affiliated enterprises.
    A director, who engages in any transaction for himself or on behalf of another person that is within the scope of the company's business, shall disclose to the shareholders' meeting the material terms of such transaction and obtain its consent.
Article 16    A securities firm shall establish the objectives and system of a sound management for finance, operations and accounting in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations. It shall further, together with its affiliated enterprises, properly conduct an overall risk evaluation of the major banks they are dealing with, their customers and their suppliers, and carry out the necessary control mechanism to reduce credit risks.
Article 17    Where a securities firm and its affiliated enterprises enter into inter-company business transactions, a written agreement governing respect of the relevant financial and business operations between each other shall be made in accordance with the principle of fair dealing and reasonableness. Both parties shall definitively stipulate the terms and conditions of the price and payment terms mechanism, and desist from any transactions that are other than at arms' length.
    All transactions or contracts made by and between a securities firm and its affiliated persons and shareholders shall follow the principles set forth in the proceeding sub-paragraph and tunneling of profits in strictly prohibited.
Article 18    A shareholder having controlling power over a securities firm shall comply with the following provisions:
  1. It shall bear a duty of good faith to other shareholders and shall not directly or indirectly cause the company to engage in transactions at other than arms' length or involve in management conduct for adverse interest.
  2. Its representative shall follow the rules implemented by the securities firm with respect to the exercise of rights and participation of resolution, so that at a shareholders' meeting, the representative shall exercise his/her voting right for the best interest of all shareholders and in good faith and, when acting as a director or supervisor, he/she will exercise the fiduciary duty of a director or supervisor.
  3. It shall comply with relevant laws, regulations and the articles of incorporation of the company in nominating directors or supervisors and shall not act beyond the authority granted by the shareholders meeting or board meeting.
  4. It shall not improperly intervene in corporate policy making or obstruct corporate management activities.
  5. It shall not restrict or impede the management of the company by methods of unfair competition.
  6. The corporate representative appointed by it after it was elected as director or supervisor shall have the professional qualifications required by the company, and it shall not replace the representative unless there is a good reason.
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Article 19    A securities firm shall ensure the command at any time of information of the identity of major shareholders or its ultimate control persons who own a higher percentage of shares and have actual control over the company.
    A securities firm shall disclose from time to time important information about its major shareholders relating to the pledge, increase or decrease of shares, or other matters that may possibly trigger a change in the ownership of their shares.
    The major shareholder indicated in the first paragraph refers to the one who owns five percent or more of the outstanding shares of the company or the shareholding stake thereof is on the top ten list, provided however that the company may set up a lower shareholding threshold according to the actual shareholding stake that may control the company.