I-KYC - Key Persons
Pieter started his professional career at ABN AMRO in 1992 as a graduate to join the bank's International Division as one of its International Officers. Pieter worked on different assignments in Latin America and the Middle East before moving back to Head Office in Amsterdam to join the European Structured Finance team (Syndicated Lending). After several years in Amsterdam he continued his international career as he was transferred to Hong Kong where he headed a team of relationship bankers responsible for the International Client Portfolio of the bank in Hong Kong and China.
Back again in Amsterdam, Pieter strengthened the ABN AMRO's Customer Due Diligence Group where he led a team of professionals responsible for all phases of customer Due Diligence for Southern Europe. Responsibilities included liaising with Compliance and Business Heads in each country, as well as coordinating with Group Compliance and Global Business Units.
He left ABN AMRO in 2006 to join Oxyor, a financial training company, as Commercial Director. In this role he helped the international expansion of the company by acquiring new clients and developing training programmes for international banks. In 2008 he became one of the founding partners of MarketSims, a company specialising in simulation software for financial training, assessment and recruitment with the unique ability to analyze skills from many angles.
Pieter has a Masters degree in Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam
Rolf van der Pol started his career in information technology and moved to the financial services industry in 1990. He has a broad experience in line and project management functions built up across Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
From 2005 he was responsible for the KYC repapering of the entire APAC client base of ABN AMRO Bank encompassing retail, commercial, wholesale and private clients. Subsequently he was responsible for the newly established KYC function for APAC. After the takeover by RBS his remit extended to include all transaction filtering and monitoring activities as well as a range of other cross-product areas like client onboarding and client- & reference-data management.
Using his experience, Rolf can help financial institutions to achieve operational compliance by providing a thorough risk assessment, definition of improvements and delivery of training, change and remediation programs in the field of FEC compliance and operations.
Rolf has a Masters degree in Economics and Organisational behaviour from the Free University in Amsterdam.