Kuala Lumpur, 13 May 1999
The Securities Industry Development Centre (SIDC) of the Securities Commission (SC) will be organising a half-day Seminar On Shareholders' Rights And Responsibilities At General Meetings at the SC on 22 May 1999.
SECURITIES COMMISSION MALAYSIA
Background information:
The Securities Commission (SC), a statutory body reporting to the Minister of Finance, was established under the Securities Commission Act 1993. It is the sole regulatory agency for the regulation and development of capital markets. The SC has direct responsibility for supervising and monitoring the activities of market institutions, including the exchanges and clearing houses, and regulating all persons licensed under the Securities Industry Act 1983 and Futures Industry Act 1993.
The Securities Industry Development Centre (SIDC) is the education arm of the SC. It is responsible for facilitating education and research in the development of the capital market in Malaysia through training and dissemination of findings of non-proprietary research. It is also responsible for the development of the SC's resource centre which when fully established will be the premier capital market resource centre for the region.
More information about the SC is available on its homepage at www.sc.com.my