The CRF is delighted to announce the dates for the 2020 CRF Conference will be the 14th to 18th September 2020.
The conference theme will be Ease of Doing Business: The role of Corporate Registries
The Conference will be held at the Speke Resort Munyonyo, Kampala –Uganda.
More details will follow and will be posted on the Conference Page.
The CRF annual conference is always a highlight of the year for our members. It is the only time when we all join together, share our experiences and can really learn from each other on new developments and what has worked well within the business registry arena.
Over the years, I am always fascinated by what I learn and hear at our conferences and amazed at how quickly advancements are being made and the diverse nature as to how business registries operate and perform across the world.
The success of each conference, in large, is down to the early planning and thinking that needs to take place in advance so that ideas can start to take shape, allowing ample lead time to work through the detail.
In order for the location of the 2021 conference to be agreed, the CRF executive is currently seeking expressions of interest and or accepting applications from member jurisdictions who would be interested in hosting the annual conference. All member jurisdictions are eligible to apply.
As a host nation, you will have the opportunity to put together an exciting, interesting and engaging programme and showcase/raise the profile of your registry.
Interested member jurisdictions can find more information via this link Guide to Hosting the Annual Conference with further enquiries made to our secretariat at secretariat@corporateregistersforum.org
I would encourage you if interested to complete the application that can be found at Application to Host a CRF Conference and email your application to secretariat@corporateregistersforum.org by Friday 28th February 2020.
The executive would like to announce to members our host for 2021 by end of April 2020.
Kind regards,
Rosanne Bell
President of CRF
Executive Director, Registry – Australian Securities and Investments Commission
The World Bank have released the Doing Business Report 2020. A number of CRF members have improved their rankings. Several continue to be ranked in the top performers.
The report and related discussion may be found at https://www.doingbusiness.org/en/doingbusiness
Azerbaijan One-Click. The Ministry of Taxes of the Republic of Azerbaijan have announced that from the beginning of 2019 a single procedure (including VAT registration and opening a bank account) is needed for LLCs’ with local investments to be state registered online. All procedures that were previously in place have been abolished including the necessity of validation of e-application with electronic signature. As a result, number of procedures has been decreased from 3 to 1; the duration of the procedure was reduced to 20 minutes, while requirement of financial resources, as well as number of documents have been eliminated. For more read here.
CRF members are invited to attend this event hosted by GLEIF.
The future of secure digital identity matters for competitiveness and security in a global and digital economy. During the forum, GLEIF will discuss about their approach of materializing the benefits of LEI by growing the number of LEIs from 1,4 million currently to 40-50 million in a few years. Attendees will have the chance to engage in discussions with regulators and technology providers about how the LEI could be leveraged to enable straight-through processing, enhance entity identification efficiency, support blockchain and distributed ledger technology in use cases such as data management, client onboarding and trade finance.
The Forum will be held at the Hamilton Hotel Almas/Sphinx on K Conference Center in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, 24 October 2019. from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.
If interested please kindly register your attendance by 11 Oct via below link: http://gleif-washington-forum.eventbrite.com/
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We are delighted to announce that the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) have been selected to host the CRF Annual Conference 2020.
The conference will be held in Kampala the capital of Uganda.
The CRF Executive are working with the URSB on the venue, theme and program of events and will in due course provide additional information.
A firm date is yet to be agreed but we will be aiming to have the conference in either August or September 2020.
Watch this website, follow us on Twitter (@CorpRegForum) or Facebook for more details.
The July 2019 edition of our quarterly Newsletter is now available to download. If you have any feedback, ideas or suggestions for next quarter’s newsletter please don’t hesitate to email secretariat@corporateregistersforum.org
https://www.corporateregistersforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CRF-Newsletter-July-2019.pdf
The 2018 International Business Registers Report has been published.
The report is structured to reflect the diversity of respondents and the joint commitment by the four worldwide registry organisations ASORLAC (Association of Registers of Latin America and the Caribbean), CRF (Corporate Registers Forum), ECRF (European Commerce Registers’ Forum) and IACA (International Association of Commercial Administrators) in supporting this work on behalf of their members.
Click to view the International Business Registers Report-2018
Important note for users of the International Business Registers Report.
We want to make sure the data we publish is relevant to our users. We’re requesting feedback from our users about their opinions of the International Business Register Report.
We want to understand what matters to you, and the impact of the data on you and your work. With your feedback, we can dedicate our resource to develop our survey, analysis and any supporting material.
The outcome of your responses will be taken into consideration, and there may be changes to our next survey and report to be distributed in 2020.
Please consider providing your views and take about 10-15 minutes to respond to the consultation questions.
Here’s the link for the user consultation: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/InternationalBusinessRegisterReportUserConsultation
The March 2019 edition of our quarterly Newsletter is now available to download. If you have any feedback, ideas or suggestions for next quarter’s newsletter please don’t hesitate to email secretariat@corporateregistersforum.org
https://www.corporateregistersforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CRF-Newsletter-March-2019.pdf
We are delighted to announce that registration for the CRF 2019 Conference is now open.
