Page 43 - 臺灣證券交易所2021年報

I. Primary Market Business 1. The TWSE will continue to visit public firms, hold listing promotion events, and encourage domestic and foreign companies of exceptional quality to list. 2. The TWSE will advocate innovative startups to list on the Taiwan Innovation Board and assist businesses with key technologies and innovative capabilities or business models to raise funds on the capital market. In addition, the TWSE will host an awards ceremony to recognize the efforts of intermediaries to encourage the discovery and nurturing of potential startups. 3. Using selected and simplified information items that fit the requirements for optimized information disclosure in English, the TWSE will complete the design and launch of the English disclosure website, providing foreign investors with material and timely information via a more convenient and transparent website. 4. Pursuant to the major measures for 2022 in the Corporate Governance Roadmap and the ACGA assessment, the TWSE will enhance board functions, encourage the announcement of unaudited annual financial information, promote the expansion of the reporting scope of companies required to produce sustainability reports and acquire third-party assurance, and assess creating templates and holding educational courses on disclosure of ESG-related information in line with international standards such as the “Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures” (“TCFD") and “Sustainability Accounting Standards Board” (“SASB”). 5. The TWSE will counsel listed companies to deepen corporate governance, promote board diversity, establish other functional committees, appoint corporate governance executives, better adhere to regulations on information disclosure in English, and implement relevant measures to improve their performance in corporate governance evaluations. 6. Consistent with sustainable development measures, the TWSE will strengthen its ESG information platform. II. Secondary Market Business 1. The TWSE will hold market-making award activities and enhance related measures. 2. Promote advanced “Capital Market Roadmap” measures with the Taiwan Securities Association: Study the feasibility and measures for shortening matching cycles for intraday odd lot trading, improving the quality of pre-opening information disclosure, and market with protection (“MWP”) orders. 41