Thursday, November 8, 2012

Timely and Transparent Communications

Recently, a federal regulator for financial cooperatives adopted requirements on the timely disclosure of material events and senior management compensation to the owners and investors of the cooperatives.

The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) in September revised the FCA's regulations governing disclosures of senior officer compensation, supplemental retirement plans, and compensation committee responsibilities. The final rule also contains new requirements to hold nonbinding, advisory votes on senior officer compensation

In addition, the final rule requires the timely and transparent communication to shareholders and investors of significant or material events that occur at Farm Credit System institutions between annual reporting periods.

The rule requires the boards of directors to develop policies to identify events to be communicated. Notice must be made within 90 days of the event’s occurrence. The events may be communicated in either a separate notice to shareholders or as part of the quarterly report to shareholders.

If the FCA has adopted such rules for Farm Credit System associations, which are member-owned financial cooperatives, then why hasn't NCUA adopted the same disclosure requirements for federally-insured credit unions?

1 comment:

  1. Member-owners of credit unions deserve to know the salaries and compensation of the top executives. Remember, the employees work for the owners and the owners are the members. Why should your employees be able to hide their salaries from the member-owners?

    ReplyDelete

 

The content is provided for educational purposes only, with the understanding that neither the authors, contributors, nor the publishers of this site are engaged in rendering legal, accounting or other expert or professional services. If legal or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

Comments appearing in response to articles appearing on this site do not necessarily reflect the views of the ABA. ABA makes no representations regarding the truth or accuracy of commentary or opinions that may be posted in response to the articles that appear on this website.

The inclusion herein of any link to a website, either in the text of an article or in a comment, does not denote any approval, sponsorship, or endorsement by the ABA, and ABA is not responsible for the content or opinions expressed on those linked websites or related commentary. This content is not licensed to third parties sites and is not affiliated with any third party site. Any reference to the author or this content on any third party site on the Internet is not authorized by the ABA.

It is the policy of the American Bankers Association to comply fully with all antitrust laws. Certain discussions should be considered off-limits, including those that contain competitively sensitive data such as price and cost information, or statements that could be construed as reflecting an attempt or desire to control or influence a particular market or markets. Future pricing or other prospective competitive information should never be shared.