Piet De Vreese, Managing Director
Piet De Vreese
With Pideeco since June, 2010
Prior to moving into compliance in 2010, Piet ran a network of bank branches in Belgium with specialization in Private Banking and the promotion of Insurance products for retail and business customers, having the license as broker and as agent in life and non-life products.
Piet has been developing global KYC programmes and other compliance projects in line with regulatory requirements (FATCA, EMIR, MiFID, Cross border) in the Eurozone and the UK. Since 2013, he successfully completed the Compliance Officer exam in line with applicable regulatory requirements. He has also dealt with supervisory authorities in Belgium and the United Kingdom in thematic and ARROW reviews.
Career Achievements
Managing Director at Pideeco bvba. Piet has a sound financial background. He is a certified Compliance Officer with experience in Wealth and Operations Management.
Piet De Vreese
Managing Director
Brussels, Belgium
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Tuesday 27th of May 2025, 10:00
How will CSDDD impact companies in the EU?Tuesday 04th of March 2025, 09:00
How to detect dual-use items?Tuesday 24th of September 2024, 10:30
How to improve compliance culture?Wednesday 11th of September 2024, 09:00
How to set up a conflict of interest programThursday 08th of August 2024, 15:00
How to conduct KYC on companiesThursday 13th of June 2024, 09:00
How to build an effective KYC programFriday 15th of March 2024, 09:00
What can be done to improve the efficiency of AML fines?Tuesday 30th of May 2023, 09:00
How are shell companies used for money laundering?Wednesday 05th of October 2022, 14:22
What are financial crime threats in the metaverse?Monday 26th of July 2021, 10:23
How to write the perfect SAR?Sunday 31st of January 2021, 10:15
AML: What is adverse media or negative news?Friday 23rd of October 2020, 09:35
Financing terrorism: The billion-dollar blood antiquities art dealingMonday 06th of April 2020, 09:15
How and why to embed AML Lookbacks within financial firms?Tuesday 10th of December 2019, 10:58
The UBO Register in practice | BelgiumMonday 09th of December 2019, 15:39
Look up company VAT number in EuropeThursday 05th of December 2019, 15:35
VAT carousel: fiction or truth for financial institutions ?Monday 02nd of December 2019, 10:20
The rising cost of regulatory compliance for financial institutionsTuesday 25th of June 2019, 10:24
RBA - Risk Based Approach: strengths and weaknessesMonday 24th of June 2019, 10:54
Intro to DLU4: Foreign accounts and Fiscal RegularisationWednesday 08th of May 2019, 10:24
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