TP ICAP Group is committed to high standards of corporate governance. We have a comprehensive range of policies and systems in place to ensure that the Group is well run, with effective oversight and control.
The Committee ensures the governance and integrity of financial reports and disclosures and reviews the controls in place and the effectiveness of internal controls. It oversees the internal audit function and the relationship with the external auditors, including monitoring independence.
The Committee reviews the balance of skills, knowledge, experience and diversity of the Board and UKRE boards, makes recommendations for Board, Committee and UKRE Non-executive appointments and considers all matters of corporate governance for recommendation to the Board.
The Committee develops and recommends to the Board policies on remuneration for the Company’s employees including the Directors’ Remuneration Policy and makes recommendations to the Board on the remuneration packages of the Executive Directors and other members of senior management.
The Committee reviews and makes recommendations to the Board on the Group’s risk appetite, risk principles and policies ensuring that the risks are reasonable and appropriate for the Group and can be managed and controlled within the limits of the Group’s resources.
The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of TP ICAP Group plc (the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries the “Group”) delegates all decision making on and management of the business to the Group Chief Executive Officer, with the exception of the actions and decisions set out below which are reserved for the Board and any matter which is the subject of a delegation to a Board Committee.
A formal statement of the Division of Responsibilities of the Chair and Chief Executive Officer has been adopted by the Company.
The primary responsibility of the Senior Independent Director is to provide a sounding board for the Chair and serve as an intermediary for the other directors and shareholders.
This Charter sets out the purpose, authority and responsibility of the GIA function within TP ICAP Group plc (‘TP ICAP’).
