Arend Koper

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Position

Supervisor of Financial Crime

Arend Koper is a senior supervisor specialist in the field of Financial Economic Crime (FEC) at the Dutch Central Bank (DNB). Arend joined DNB in January 2020 and has been responsible for the FEC supervision of the Dutch PSPs and EMIs until June 2022, after which he joined the FEC team responsible for the supervision of the four large Credit Institutions in the Netherlands. His work consists of onsite and offsite examinations and continues monitoring of comprehensive remediation projects. In addition, Arend contributes to a wide range of (inter)national projects such as: the Dutch NRA, RBA round table discussions, FATF & EC examinations and EC Correspondent Banking project. Arend is an editorial board member of the Compliance, Ethics and Sustainability Journal. Arend has more than 10 years of experience in the financial industry, including positions as the Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance Factoring and as a Compliance manager Corporate & Institutional Banking at BNP Paribas Group. Arend holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in European Studies and a LLM European Law from the University of Amsterdam. In 2022 Arend obtained the postgraduate degree Financial Law from the Radboud University.