About two and a half dozen financial institutions are scrambling to conduct their annual general meetings (AGM) in the next one month to meet the regulator’s fixed deadline.
About 31 financial institutions — commercial banks, development banks and finance companies — will be holding their AGMs between early December and early January. Moreover, during this period share investors are particularly flush with cash as the AGMs of the financial institutions give a final approval for the dividend distribution.
Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB)’s — financial sector regulator — regulations require financial institutions to conduct their AGM within five months of the completion of the fiscal year. However, if they place a request for extension of the deadline, the central bank allows them three more months.