AV : I think of two events which , for me , were a main factor to start working in the compliance and risk space . On October 4 , 1992 , a large Israeli cargo plane crashed into a residential flat at the Bijlmer , part of Amsterdam . At that time , I was working as an internal auditor with a focus on the payments department , and from the office we could see the heavy smoke coming from the crash site and saw the images on TV which made a big impression . The September 11 , 2001 ( 9 / 11 ) attack was also an event which I will never forget . I had just started working with the supervisory department with the main task of supervising money exchange ( forex ) and remittance offices like Western Union and MoneyGram . Things changed very fast then , and we had to adapt as supervisors very fast due to new legislation and tasks for DNB . In 2017 , I started as a compliance and risk manager with what was at that time still a small payment institution : Pay . nl . This was my first role as dedicated compliance officer for a commercial company .
YB : My first role in compliance was as part of a remediation project team in 2009 . I was responsible for conducting a compliance risk assessment and creating a compliance monitoring plan for a private bank in Luxembourg . I had just moved to Luxembourg a few months before and I could use my risk assessment skills which I learned and had used as an internal auditor . After that project assignment , I was hired as senior compliance officer in the compliance department of that same bank and that is how my compliance career started .
ANC : How did you first start working with an ACAMS chapter ?
AV : Erik Reissenweber and Niek Röselaers ( former board members ) asked me to join the chapter as a co-programming director in 2019 , something for which I am still grateful . I saw it as an opportunity to engage in a new network and I am still very much enjoying being part of the ACAMS community .
Pictured left to right are Yuri Broodman , Alexander Verhoeven , Fabiola Kacani and Evelyn Bell .
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