Corporate governance

CEO
Anders Kumlin is the Spotlight Stock Markets chief executive officer (CEO). The CEO is, along with the company’s executive vice president and CFO, responsible for, among other things, the company’s internal corporate governance, compliance, legal affairs, economics and the management external control functions.

 

CFO 
Mikael Renck is the Company’s chief financial officer (CEO). The CFO is responsible for, among other things, the bookkeeping of the Group, annual and half-yearly financial statements, monthly financial statements, declarations, reporting to the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen) and the current registration of invoices and payments. The CFO is directly subordinate to the Company’s executive vice president.

 

Head of Surveillance
Peter Nylén is Head of Surveillance for Spotlight. In his role as the head of Spotlight’s market surveillance, Peter Nylén has no responsibility for results and is not assessed on any quantitive basis. He will only work to conduct sound and service-oriented market surveillance.

 

The three lines of defence

Spotlight Stock Market AB (“the Company”) is a securities company under the supervision of to the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen). Due to this, special requirements are placed on the Company’s internal governance and control.

 

The risk management is based on model with three lines of defense. Through this work, the Company enables efficient risk management, internal management, and control.

 

The first line consists of risk management and compliance as part of the daily operation. The operations own and manages its risks in accordance with compliance.

 

The second line constitutes of independent control, support and control of risk management and compliance. These functions consist of risk and compliance.

The main person responsible for the Company’s risk management function is provided by Nils Lansing (LL.M), who is directly subordinate to the company’s board.

The main person responsible for the Company’s function for compliance is provided internally by Alexander Curling (LL.M), who is directly subordinate to the company’s board.

 

The third line performs an independent examination of the operation and its controlling functions. This function is laid externally within the business and consist of an internal auditor.

 

The Company outsources the internal audit function to Transcendent Group.