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As a result of the new whistleblower protection legislation all organisations, irrelevant of industry, with 50 employees or more and obliged to put whistleblowing procedures in place. This is of particular importance to companies in the financial services industry that are subject to anti-money laundering legislation. This sounds bothersome, but there is evidence that companies with more reports actually achieve better business results. How does that work? And how can you encourage your employees to submit reports?

During this webinar we will explore the good practices together in an interactive session. Let’s unleash the power of a good speak-up culture!

• CPD Recognition | 1 CPD Unit in Financial Regulation 
• Certificate of Attendance | Participants who attended the full webinar will attain a certificate of attendance.
  
  

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Presentation Objectives

• Introduction to some elements of the new whistleblower protection legislation
• Explain the benefits of a good speak-up culture
• Explore the reasons why people do not report
• How can we stimulate employees to speak-up? Define some best practices

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Trainer: Geert Vermeulen (CEO of ECMC and The Integrity Coordinator)

The mission of Geert Vermeulen is to help organizations conduct business in an ethical and compliant way. Geert is specialized in establishing and improving ethics and compliance programs in general and anti-corruption programs in specific. In 2016 he founded ECMC: Ethics & Compliance Management & Consulting. ECMC provides compliance training, consulting services and interim and external ethics & compliance management. Geert also regularly speaks and writes on ethics and compliance. He obtained most of his experience in-house as the Chief Compliance Officer of Aon EMEA and the Global Head of Compliance of Damco, the freight forwarding arm of Maersk. 

He served as one of the Directors of the Netherlands Compliance Institute and has been the President of the Dutch Compliance Officers Association, where he founded the expert group on Financial Economic Crime. He is also a member of the expert groups on Culture and Behavior and ESG of the association. Besides that, he is a member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Law Compliance Minor at The Hague University. When he won the National Compliance Award in 2020, he was labelled ‘the compliance guru’. In 2020 Geert launched his new company called ‘The Integrity Coordinator’. This company is an independent, external coordinator of whistleblowing or speak up procedures. The Integrity Coordinator receives the reports of whistleblowers and also coordinates the follow-up, communicating with the management and the whistleblowers and coordinating the investigation, if necessary. In the last 15 years Geert handled a couple hundred reports.