“If life seems rotten, there’s something you’ve forgotten” attendees at AFME conference told in keynote opener

AFME’s Sixth Annual European Compliance and Legal Conference took place in Amsterdam.

Opening this important EU compliance conference, Dutch Authority Financial Markets (AFM) Executive Board Chair Laura Van Geest became the first attendee to ever quote Monty Python’s Life of Brian, invoking the compliance risk and legal attendees to look beyond the doom and gloom in the geopolitical and macroeconomic

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