Question 146
What does the Model Code recommend regarding “entertainment and gifts”?
- Management should monitor the form, frequency and cost of entertainment and gifts dealers receive, have a clearly articulated policy towards the giving/receipt of gifts and ensure the policy is enforced.
- As gifts and entertainment may be offered in the normal course of business, employees can offer inducements to conduct business and solicit them from the personnel of other institutions.
- Although management should not monitor the form, frequency or cost of entertainment/gifts dealers receive, they may have a policy towards the giving/receipt of gifts and ensure the policy is enforced.
- Gifts or entertainment should never be offered in the normal course of business, and employees must never offer any inducements to conduct business, nor solicit them from other institutions.