The Malta Stock Exchange (MSE) successfully organised its first annual Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Summit on 2 February. The summit addressed significant developments within the financial and corporate regulatory space, as well as the challenges faced by practitioners in the financial services industry and beyond.
At the summit held at the Westin Dragonara Resort in St Julian’s, 450 attendees participated in person, greatly exceeding the numbers that were hoped for. This year’s summit was aimed to be one of Europe’s premier summits in the GRC sector as well as the first to be held for years to come.
The summit featured a number of local speakers such as the Executive Chairman of the MSE Joseph Portelli and the Minister for Finance and Employment Clyde Caruana. International keynote speakers included representatives of institutions such as the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Deutsche Börse, the Bank of England, the German Institute for Governance and Psychology, L’Autorité des marchés financiers of France, the World Federation of Exchanges, the Italian CONSOB and others from around the world.
In between keynote speeches, a number of panel…
