- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Neil Hodge2018-12-21T09:30:00
With less than 100 days until Brexit and the sides taking a break until mid-January, it’s looking inevitable that anxious businesses will not have long-sought certainty on the issue until the clock ticks close to zero.
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