Sunday 28 February 2010

Saudi Capital Markets Authority - Three Fines Levied

The CMA announced it had levied three fines today:
  1. SAR50,000 on AlRajhi Bank for delay in notifying the CMA of the resignation of  the GM of the Finance Group and GM of the Commercial Group.  Link to AlRajhi's English page at Tadawul.
  2. SAR50,000 on Shams (Sun) Tourism Enterprise Company for failure to advise the CMA of the firing of the CEO by the Board.  The Board took its decision on 22 December 2009 but didn't notify the CMA until 27 December 2009.  Link to TEC's English page at Tadawul.
  3. SAR50,000 on Sabb Takaful for failure to advise the CMA of several (unspecified) changes in senior management during the period 13 January 2008 through 13 October 2009 until 21 December 2009.  Link to Sabb's English language page at the Tadawul.
These are admittedly small amounts.  What I think is the story here is that the CMA is monitoring and penalizing companies for the sort of infractions that would have been overlooked in the past.

You can switch from the English language company pages to the definitive Arabic language ones by using the button at the top of the upper left page next to the "Home" button.  Also note that generally the announcement on fines are not translated into English at either the Tadawul site or over at the CMA's website. 

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