Transcript Corporate Registers Forum

Corporate Registers Forum
Auckland, March 2013
Ricco Dun – CRF Executive Committee
The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce
Bucharest, 14 June 2013
Presentation
• Overview of CRF
• Report on activities
• Looking to the future
Corporate Registers Forum
• The Corporate Registers Forum (CRF) is an international organisation
for administrators of corporate registers governed by it’s constitution
– To promote liaison, co-operation and discussion among Members'
jurisdictions/countries
– To exchange or facilitate the exchange of information on the
registry systems of Members' jurisdictions/countries, their roles
and responsibilities, and issues relevant to their activities, including
operational and management practices and procedures,
technologies used or proposed and responses to changing
registration trends;
– To identify issues and problems that are seen to impede the
efficient and effective management of registries, particularly any
cross-border issues; and
– To liaise with other international registry management
organizations and constituencies on common registry management
issues
Corporate Registers Forum
• Registered in Hong Kong as an incorporated
society in 2006
• 48 member countries
CRF Report
• Appointment of an Executive officer (Tim Moss – UK)
to grow the CRF
• Supporting a conference on Ease of Doing Business in
East and Southern Africa
• 10th anniversary conference held during March at
Auckland, New Zealand
– 185 attendees from 53 countries
Annual Conference
• Tomorrow’s Registries Today - Tell, Inspire,
Revolutionize
• 4 days focusing on:– Networking
– Future Challenges, risks and potential solutions
– Technologies
– Law Reform
– General sessions
Annual Conference
• Networking
– Cultural evenings
– Sightseeing evening
– Gala dinners
– Breakout sessions
– Feedback sessions
Annual Conference
• Future Challenges, risks and potential solutions
– Understanding the needs of the next generation of
entrepreneur
– Unique challenges faced by emerging economies
– Single business identifier across all agencies,
information reporting once use often
– Global registries, interoperability and data exchange
– Global economic outlook, impact on corporate
registers
– Combating Registry Integrity
– Money laundering, criminal activity, identity thief
Annual Conference
• Technologies
• XBRL / iXBRL
• Electronic IDs
• Biometrics
• Case studies of new online registers
• Mobile apps, badges, QRs, CRM, web services
Annual Conference
• Law Reform
– Corporate Governance
– Simplifying & streamlining business registration &
reporting
– Lowing cost of compliance
– Making laws simple
– Enhancing powers of inspection & enforcement,
increasing penalties to improve integrity
– Aligning with AML legislation
Annual Conference
• General sessions
– Country Updates
– IACA and ECRF
– World Bank and
– Asian Development Bank
– Sponsor booths
CRF 2014
• To be hosted by Junta Comercial do Estado do
Rio de Janeiro - JUCERJA
• 17-20 March 2014
• Come join us in Rio?
Thank You
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