SAARCFINANCE Seminars

1. Emerging Trends in Good Governance of Banking Sector in SAARC Region (December 18–20, 2019)

Emerging Trends in Good Governance of Banking Sector in SAARC Region

While corporate governance is corner stone for the success of any business entity, its importance become more critical for financial institutions as banks are highly leveraged entities facing a wide range of risks in their day-to-day operations.  Thus, the scope and approach to banks’ corporate governance requires a different and specific regulatory framework, not only because of their leveraged business model but also due to diverse ownership and group structure.  In this backdrop, this seminar explored various issues relating to corporate governance for commercial banks such as remuneration practices of board members, gender diversity and representation from diversified experience on boards of banks, concentration of banks’ shareholding to a few families, etc.  

Key presentations

• Ishrat Hussain (Advisor to Prime Minister on Institutional Reforms and Austerity), Keynote Speaker (Significance of Corporate Governance in Banking Sector)
• Tania Aidrus, Head of Prime Minister’s Digital Pakistan Initiative
• (Digital Transformation in Pakistan)
• Inayat Hussain Executive Director, Banking Supervision Group, State Bank of Pakistan
• (Supervisory challenges in governance of banks)
• Syed Faraz Anwer Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Pakistan
• (Emerging Trends in Corporate Governance Practices)

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A pictorial view of the seminar