The Hub serves you on monthly basis with dedicated sections for continued professional learning and helping you emerge as the “Agents for Change” in the corporate boards. The featured stories across various sections would cover regulatory updates, corporate actions and experience sharing by Independent Directors.

Setting, orients you about the Strategic and Institutional Partnership of the IICA with the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, by signing a Memorandum of Understanding. The partnership aims to foster the key vision of the Databank, i.e., to evolve “Independent Directorship as a Profession” in India.

Vignettes, showcase the confident and powerful views of Dr. Niraj Gupta on the subject "Independent Director's Databank: A Step Towards Empowerment". Dr. Niraj Gupta is the Nodal Officer of Independent Director's Databank engaged with IICA. He has rich experience in the fields of research, teaching, and consulting.

Regulatory Worktop, shares with you the keys updates about the mandatory provisions of Secretarial Audit for an additional category of companies, revision in the provisions for the appointment of a Whole Time Company Secretary and extension of timeline introduced by SEBI to split the roles of Chairman and Managing Directors.

Regulators Eye, presents to you a report on Corporate Governance Scores 2019 – “Stability Despite Headwinds”. This report is developed by BSE Limited, International Finance Corporation, and Institutional Investor Advisory Services India Limited. This issue of the newsletter also provides knowledge supplement about the Legal battle between Tata Sons and Cyrus Mistry.

Events Expo, acquaints you to various national and global upcoming events, programs, workshops, conferences, etc. This issue of the newsletter introduces a Master Class on Digital Transformation Strategy organized by Economic Times and a program on the subject “Governance and Credit Discipline” (under CII Governance Series 2019-20) organised by CII under the aegis of NFCG. On the global end, Harvard Business School is organizing a program on the subject “Preparing to be a Corporate Director” and IMD is organizing a program on “High Performance Boards”.