The Central Registry was launched by Bahrain Bourse as a part of Central Securities Depository (CSD) Division purposely to handle a central database for joint-stock Issuer share books, additionally providing high quality services to those companies and shareholders.
Objectives
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Establish a Centralized database preserves the information of all Issuer shareholders, to be managed by one central authority through an automated system in accordance with the international standards.
- Conserve shareholders' ownership rights by pursuing laws and regulations applied in the kingdom.
Services
- Maintaining a record of the Share Register in electronic form.
- Updating shareholders' ownership records subsequent to shares transfer through trades and Exceptional Cases
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Maintaining securities pledges in electronic form.
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Providing shareholding reports to Issuer.
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Attending the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and any Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of the Company.
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Responding to Investors' inquiries.
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Issuance of Reports of Shares Movement in registers of listed companies.
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Executing approved AGMs corporate actions including: Stock Merger and Acquisition, Capital reduction, Bonus issue and stock split.
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Offering IPO processes services.