- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Paul Hodgson2019-03-11T15:04:00
The U.K. Financial Reporting Council will soon be replaced by a new regulator acting on recommendations from Sir John Kingman of the London Stock Exchange. The government hopes to ensure the United Kingdom going forward has “a world-class audit and accounting regulator.”
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