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BarnOwl Info Sharing Insight: The State of AI and AI in Corporate Governance with Michael Judin and Lionel Moyal

August 22, 2023 2:22 pm

BarnOwl Info Sharing Insight: The State of AI and AI in Corporate Governance with Michael Judin and Lionel Moyal BarnOwl Info Sharing session: 17 August 2023 Presented by: Michael Judin (Partner at Judin Combrinck Inc. Attorneys, Johannesburg, and Lionel Moyal (the SI and Channel Partners Lead at Microsoft Africa Region. Introduction Thank you very much Michael and Lionel for your most informative presentation on ‘The state of AI and AI in corporate governance’ at the BarnOwl info-sharing event held on 17 August 2023. Thank you too, to all those who attended the session. We have entered a new era of... Read more

BarnOwl Info Sharing Insight: Greylisting Creates New Risks for Companies. Are you Exposed? with Robert Davies

July 6, 2023 9:15 am

BarnOwl info sharing session: – Greylisting creates new risks for companies. Are you exposed? BarnOwl Info Sharing session: 29 June 2023 Presented by: Robert Davies, Robert Davies is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces Introduction Thank you very much Robert for your most informative presentation on ‘FATF Greylisting’ at the BarnOwl info-sharing event held on 29 June 2023. Thank you too, to all those who attended the session. South Africa has been grey listed by global financial crime watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for... Read more

King IV – Now More Than Ever

July 12, 2022 8:02 am

The definition of corporate governance for the purposes of King IV (copyright the Institute of Directors South Africa), is defined as the exercise of ethical and effective leadership by the governing body towards the achievement of the following governance outcomes: Ethical culture, Good performance, Effective control and Legitimacy. Ethical Leadership is exemplified by integrity, competence, responsibility, accountability, fairness and transparency. It involves the anticipation and prevention, or otherwise amelioration, of the negative consequences of the organisation’s activities and outputs on the economy, society and the environment and the capitals that it uses and affects. Effective leadership is results-driven. It is about achieving... Read more

BarnOwl Info Sharing Insight: Compliance – One Bite at a Time… with Cherryn-Paige Bissett

October 6, 2021 12:58 pm

BarnOwl Info Sharing session: 30 September 2021 Compliance: One bite at a time Presented by: Cherryn-Paige Bissett, CEO – Paige Law, Introduction Whilst compliance has always been critical to the operating of any business, many sectors have arguably paid lip service to compliance apart from sectors such as banking, financial institutions, telcos and the mining sector who face heavy fines and / or in extreme circumstances could lose their operating licenses for non-compliance. Compliance is often seen in a negative light as being an inhibitor of business. However, this is not the case; compliance when implemented effectively is a necessary... Read more

King IV Report: Risk, Compliance and Assurance

December 9, 2016 12:53 pm

The following points are taken from the King IV report copyrighted to The Institute of Directors Southern Africa NPC. Introduction to King IV The definition of corporate governance for the purposes of King IV, is defined as the exercise of ethical and effective leadership by the governing body towards the achievement of the following governance outcomes: Ethical culture Good performance Effective control Legitimacy Ethical Leadership is exemplified by integrity, competence, responsibility, accountability, fairness and transparency. It involves the anticipation and prevention, or otherwise amelioration, of the negative consequences of the organisation’s activities and outputs on the economy, society and the... Read more