Computershare Brings Leading Entity and Board Management Solutions To Australia and New Zealand
Sydney - December, 2008 - Computershare Limited (ASX:CPU) is pleased to announce the expansion of its Governance Services division into the Australian and New Zealand markets.
The move comes following continued success in providing leading entity management, board management and subsidiary governance solutions to customers in other regions around the world.
Mark Davis, Computershare's Group Regional Director for Australasia, believes Governance Services is ideally placed to help companies meet their growing local and international corporate governance obligations.
"With its advanced Global Entity Management System (GEMS), Computershare Governance Services helps multi-national companies more effectively manage all their legal entities and subsidiaries worldwide and comply with national and international regulatory rules," says Mr. Davis.
"In addition, its Corporate Manager (CM) system helps Australian and New Zealand companies comply with domestic and global tax, legal, finance and regulatory filings. Completing the offering is the BoardWorks solution, which supports the company’s board of directors and committees and provides secure and easy access to board meeting materials for executives and directors.
“Every one of Computershare's 17,000 clients around the globe stands to benefit from our market-leading corporate entity management solutions."
About Computershare Limited (CPU)
Computershare (ASX:CPU) is a global leader in share registration, employee equity plans, proxy solicitation and other specialised financial, governance and communication services. Many of the world’s largest companies employ our innovative solutions to maximise the value of their relationships with investors, employees, customers and members.
Computershare has over 12,000 employees across the world and serves 17,000 corporations and 100 million shareholder and employee accounts in 17 countries across five continents.
About Computershare Governance Services
Computershare Governance Services (CGS) combines the history and expertise of the Datacare Software Group with World Records to create the global leader in entity management and subsidiary governance solutions. Since 1985, Datacare provided software and services to many Fortune 1000 companies around the world and introduced the first Web-based application in response to increased regulatory demands for governance, compliance and transparency. World Records provided similar capabilities and introduced innovative functionality to capture entity data at a specific point in time to enhance reporting.
CGS has offices in USA, Canada, Ireland, UK, Germany and Australia and today over 250,000 legal entities are administered, governed and kept compliant using CGS software.
BoardWorks is a board meeting preparation and distribution solution. It provides efficiencies and benefits in the creation and deployment of board meeting packages and other board materials.
Global Entity Management System and Corporate Manager are world leading tools for the management of legal entities and subsidiaries. It has features designed to manage related corporate governance and compliance data for the Company Secretary, Tax, Treasury and Legal departments.
For more information on Computershare’s entity and board management solutions, please contact:
John Cormican
Sales Manager Australia & New Zealand
Computershare Governance Services
T: +61 (0) 2 8234 5065
E: john.cormican@computershare.com.au
www.cgs.computershare.com
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