ACAMS Today Magazine (Nov-Dec 2008) Vol. 7 No. 6 | Page 10

SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Anne-Chris Visser: Maintaining an open dialogue ACAMS Today: Would you please describe your current position and responsibilities? Anne-Chris Visser: I am a senior policy advisor in the Integrity Division of the Financial Markets Directorate of the Ministry of Finance. Our division is responsible for legislation and policy regarding anti-money laundering (AML) and combating terrorist financing. My main responsibilities are financial sanctions and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). With regard to the financial sanctions, my work contains the legislative and policy aspects of financial sanctions, and the implementation and execution of U.N., EU and national regulations. This includes not only making decisions on designations and granting exemptions of frozen assets, but also with addres