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Compliance recruitment in Amsterdam

Retained search for a general counsel, chief compliance officer, or chief operating officer hiring a compliance leader in Amsterdam: the two statutory seats, the supervisors, and the clock after the offer.

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›Three compliance seats inside fifteen in-house searches

Compliance recruitment Amsterdam is a retained search for a compliance leader under DNB or the AFM. Sartori & Partners closed 3 Amsterdam compliance searches inside 15 in-house searches over three years. A counter-offer arrived on 27 percent of those 15, and written offer to acceptance ran 13 working days. An Euronext-listed payments company in Amsterdam hired its head of AML in 14 weeks. On 1 January 2026 the Amsterdam bar counted 6,788 advocates (NOvA). DORA has applied since 17 January 2025, and the Dutch MiCAR transition for DNB-registered providers ended on 30 June 2025.

01 — The brief answer

Two statutory seats. Two supervisors. One city line.

Compliance recruitment Amsterdam is the retained brief a general counsel, a chief compliance officer, or a chief operating officer gives when the company needs a compliance leader it does not already employ. The person is usually in post at another institution, bound by an employment contract, and not free to start on the day the offer is signed. The seat itself is often two seats. The Decree on Prudential Rules under the Financial Supervision Act names a compliance function for banks, payment institutions, and electronic-money institutions. The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act names a designated policymaker and, where the institution’s nature and size make it proportionate, a separate compliance function. A brief that treats those titles as one job is the brief that slips.

That is the work compliance recruitment is retained to do here. Sartori & Partners was founded in early 2017 by Lorenzo Sartori. The firm-wide compliance record is 36 compliance and regulatory leadership placements since 2017, inside 400+ placements (230+ in-house). The CCO clock on that book is 21 days to a shortlist and 10 weeks median to an accepted offer. The Amsterdam in-house line is a smaller book, kept separate below. It is not a second count of the 41. The city hub is legal recruitment in Amsterdam. Pay comparisons are on the compliance, AML, in-house, and lawyer salary pages.

Years in the Amsterdam market

5

In-house searches closed · 3 yrs

15

Counter-offer

27%

Offer to acceptance

13days

Amsterdam in-house line, trailing three years. Completion on that line is 93 percent. The timeline from signed brief to accepted offer is 4 to 7 months. Of the 15, 3 were compliance and regulatory seats. The city’s one interview cohort is 250. Firm-wide compliance placements are 36. They are not a second Amsterdam count.

02 — Local demand

The supervisors sit here. The licence count does not.

On 1 January 2026 the Nederlandse orde van advocaten counted 6,788 advocates in the Amsterdam arrondissement, in De Balie in Beeld 2026. That was 118 more than the 6,670 counted a year earlier. Nationally the same report counts 19,046 advocates, up 323, or 1.7 percent, from 18,723. Amsterdam is more than one third of the Dutch bar. In 2025 the order swore in 1,182 new advocates, and 516 of those swearings-in were in Amsterdam. The 6,788 is an admission stock of advocates. It is not a count of open compliance seats, and it is not a count of in-house officers who are not admitted to the bar. A hiring committee that reads 6,788 as the size of the Amsterdam compliance market is reading the bar census as a vacancy list.

De Nederlandsche Bank’s head office is in Amsterdam. The Autoriteit Financiële Markten is a foundation with its registered office in Amsterdam, as its 2025 annual report states. What the city holds is the supervisory dialogue, the Dutch compliance seat of groups that keep one here, and the local bar that can take an admission for counsel work beside that seat. The licence totals those authorities publish are national. The AFM’s 2025 key figures list 375 licences in total. Inside that total the crypto line is 18 operators, marked as new. Asset management is 30. Financial services is 311. Audit and reporting quality is 16. Adding those four key-figure lines returns the 375. The report separately says 311 new financial-services licences were granted in 2025, a count that includes extensions and changes of legal form. That second 311 is a flow. It is not another reading of the key-figure line, and neither figure is an Amsterdam employer count.

DORA, Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, has applied since 17 January 2025. A compliance seat hired against that date is a digital-operational-resilience brief for in-scope financial entities. It sits beside, and does not replace, the anti-money-laundering function. The AFM’s annual report for 2025 records that the authority prepared the sector for DORA, MiCAR, and the CSRD in the same year. That sentence describes the supervisor’s work program. It does not describe how many compliance officers Amsterdam employs.

Crypto is the demand that has a date on it. MiCAR supervision of crypto-asset services applied from 30 December 2024. Providers that already held a DNB registration had six months. The AFM’s notice of that month says they needed a MiCAR licence or notification by 30 June 2025, and that even a strong application takes at least five to six months. In 2025 the DNB registration regime ended and the AFM started supervising crypto service providers. In that year the AFM granted 15 MiCAR licences, had 36 pending licence applications and notifications for crypto service providers, and completed 3 notifications. The 15, the 36, and the 18 crypto operators in the key figures are three different counts. They are not three ways of saying the same Amsterdam headcount, and they are not a statement that Sartori recruits the AFM’s own staff.

The research program maps 1,480,000+ lawyers. The Amsterdam cut of that map is 3,000 lawyers. A compliance slice of the city’s interview cohort is drawn for this desk. That slice is not a subset of the 15 closed searches, and it is not the firm-wide 41 placements.

03 — Sector mix

Banks and payments, the Wwft function, the AFM perimeter, and crypto.

The demand splits into four employer shapes. The first is a bank, a payment institution, or an electronic-money institution under DNB. Article 21(1) of the Decree on Prudential Rules, in the consolidation of 29 May 2026, names a longer list, and these three are the seats this desk is hired for. The article requires the institution to keep an organizational unit that exercises a compliance function independently and effectively. The unit’s task is to check statutory rules and the internal rules the institution has written for itself. Where the bank may also provide investment services in the Netherlands, article 21(2) adds advice to the people who provide those services, monitoring of procedures, and a report at least once a year to the people who determine daily policy and, if one exists, to the body that supervises policy. A search that plans that report for the year after the officer starts has already missed the cadence the article describes.

The second shape is the anti-money-laundering function, and it is not the same appointment. Article 2d of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act, in the consolidation of 1 January 2026, splits the work. Where two or more people determine daily policy, paragraph 1 requires the institution to designate one of them as responsible for compliance with the Act. Paragraph 2 requires, insofar as it fits the institution’s nature and size, an independent and effective compliance function. Paragraph 3 says that function checks statutory and internal rules and includes providing the article 16 data to FIU-Nederland. Paragraph 4, where it applies and where it is proportionate, requires an independent audit of both the Act and the compliance function. The AFM’s revised Wwft guide of 5 June 2024, footnote 26, points this duty at article 2d. The guide is explicit that nature and size is not headcount alone: managed assets, client count, foreign or higher-risk clients, products, and the use of advanced systems all count. A two-person investment firm with only higher-risk foreign clients can be required to install the function. A similar firm with only lower-risk Dutch clients may not. The function may be outsourced. Outsourcing does not erase the designation in paragraph 1.

The third shape is the AFM-supervised manager or investment firm that is not a DNB bank and still sits in the national Wwft perimeter. In 2025 the AFM sent its Wwft and Sanctions Act questionnaire to 920 managers of investment institutions, and 94 percent responded. The reference date was 31 December 2024. The 920 broke down as 106 AIFM-licensed managers without a UCITS licence, 15 UCITS managers, 773 registered AIFM-light managers, and 26 branches. That is a national supervisory population. It is why an Amsterdam holding company with a licensed manager still gets a financial-crime brief even when the bank rule in article 21 does not apply. The light-manager population is the large one. A brief that assumes every AFM manager already employs a full-time officer is assuming a bench the 773-registration line does not, by itself, prove.

The fourth shape is the crypto-asset service provider, and the listed or payments group that is an obliged entity without being a bank. The Dutch MiCAR transition for DNB-registered providers ended on 30 June 2025. The AFM granted 15 MiCAR licences in 2025. A licence file that is still in the 36 pending applications is a hiring event only when the company has decided it needs an officer in Amsterdam, not because a national pending-count equals a vacancy. Euronext Amsterdam is the listing venue that puts a public-company reporting line on some of these groups. It is not itself a compliance employer on this page. Of the 15 closed Amsterdam in-house searches over three years, 3 were compliance and regulatory seats: 1 at a payments institution, 1 at a bank that also provides investment services, and 1 at a crypto-asset service provider. Those three numbers add to the 3. The other files in the 15 are the in-house line’s other work. They are not restated here as a second sector table.

Of the 22 compliance, MLRO, or financial-crime counsel inside the cohort of 250, 12 said they would not take a seat that combined the article 21 compliance function and the article 2d Wwft function. The 12 are a subset of the 22, and the 22 are a subset of the 250. They are not 12 failed searches. The scorecard in week one, before any name is discussed, is short.

  • Which function. Article 21 compliance unit, article 2d Wwft function, the designated daily policymaker in article 2d(1), or more than one of those, named separately.
  • Whether paragraph 2 applies. The Wwft compliance function is required insofar as it fits nature and size. The AFM guide of 5 June 2024 lists the factors. A waiver is a fact. It is not assumed.
  • Who receives the annual report. Article 21(2)(d), for a bank that provides investment services: at least annually, to daily policymakers and to the supervisory body if there is one.
  • Which supervisor is actually on the file. DNB prudential supervision is not the AFM’s national count of 375 licences, and neither number is an Amsterdam headcount.
  • Which admission, if any. The 6,788 advocates are the Amsterdam bar on 1 January 2026. A compliance officer who will not practice as an advocaat does not need that admission. Requiring it shrinks the pool to a different profession.

04 — Timeline

Acceptance ends the search. The statutory report and the licence file open the next morning.

Sartori has worked the Amsterdam market for 5 years. Over the trailing three years the in-house line closed 15 searches, at 93 percent completion. The timeline from signed brief to accepted offer on that line is 4 to 7 months. From written offer to acceptance, those 15 files ran 13 working days. A counter-offer arrived on 27 percent of them. The 13 days are the offer step. They sit inside the 4 to 7 months. They are not the notice that follows acceptance, and they are not the AFM’s five-to-six-month licence clock.

The firm-wide CCO clock is a different book. Across 36 compliance and regulatory leadership placements since 2017, the shortlist arrives in 21 days and the accepted offer in a median of 10 weeks. Ten weeks is shorter than 4 to 7 months. It is not an Amsterdam median, and the 41 are not the 15. Offer acceptance on corporate mandates is 96 percent. Retention of placed in-house leaders is 97 percent at 12 months and 91 percent at 24 months. The replacement term on a retained CCO search is 12 months. Off-limits on the client’s legal and compliance department run 24 months. The 93 percent is completion of the Amsterdam in-house line. It is not a second statement of the 96 percent.

Of the 3 compliance and regulatory seats inside the 15, 2 closed between week 10 and week 16. Those 2 are inside the 3, and the 3 are inside the 15. They closed faster than the in-house line’s 4 to 7 months, nearer the firm-wide 10-week CCO median. The remaining 1 ran to week 32, past that 4 to 7 months band. The miss was a brief that had named one officer for article 21 and article 2d. The other files in the 3 are not evidence that every Amsterdam compliance search misses the line.

Clock Base Figure
In-house searches closed Amsterdam in-house line, three years 15
Compliance and regulatory seats Inside those 15 3
Brief to accepted offer That in-house line 4 to 7 months
Compliance subset, two files Inside those 3 Week 10 to week 16
Written offer to acceptance Those 15 files 13 working days
Counter-offer Share of those 15 27 percent
Firm-wide CCO median 36 compliance placements since 2017 21 days to shortlist, 10 weeks to offer
Dutch MiCAR transition DNB-registered providers, AFM notice Ended 30 June 2025
DORA application Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, article 64 17 January 2025

The 13 working days and the 4 to 7 months are the search. The annual report under article 21(2) and any MiCAR licence correspondence are the steps that continue after acceptance. One of the 3, and one of the 2 that closed between week 10 and week 16, was a head of AML hired by an Euronext-listed payments company in Amsterdam. The shortlist was in week 3. The accepted offer was in week 14. The general counsel later said: The dossier separated the Wwft function from the bank compliance seat. We did not reopen the reporting line.

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05 — Compensation

The published in-house band is not an Amsterdam CCO scale.

The Nationale Enquête Bedrijfsjuristen 2025, run for the Nederlands Genootschap van Bedrijfsjuristen and published on 27 November 2025, drew 360 responses from a membership of more than 1,900. Mr. Online’s account of that day puts 46 percent of full-time respondents at a gross salary of EUR 100,000 to EUR 150,000, against 36 percent in the 2023 survey, and 4 percent above EUR 250,000. The survey is national. It is every responding in-house member, not a chief compliance officer, and not an Amsterdam cut. A company that prices an Amsterdam MLRO at EUR 100,000 to EUR 150,000 because that is the modal full-time band is pricing the membership sample. The band is the comparison. It is not the offer.

The pages that carry the comparison, without inventing a euro for this seat, are compliance officer salary, 2026, AML compliance officer salary, 2026, in-house counsel salary in Amsterdam, 2026, and lawyer salary in Amsterdam, 2026. Associate cash the candidate can refuse to leave is on the Amsterdam legal market, 2026. Those pages are not repeated here as if they were a CCO scale. The underwriting question on a compliance mandate is which function the statute requires, and which package the employer will actually put in the contract, not which national band the survey printed.

The retained fee is a percentage of the compensation the company actually agrees. The fee is 25–30 percent of the hire’s total first-year compensation. Thirty percent of that fee is paid as a retainer when the search is engaged, and the retainer is kept if the client cancels. The search is retained only. A brief that later splits one combined seat into two hires changes the compensation the percentage applies to. It does not change the percentage. The fee letter states that before anyone is called. On the 15, the 13 working days are planned for the counter-offer that arrived on 27 percent of the files.

06 — How a search runs

Six steps. The Amsterdam work is the function and the article.

  1. 01 — BriefMandate, success profile and conflicts frame agreed in writing.
  2. 02 — Market mapThe live universe mapped from our coverage, not whoever is in motion.
  3. 03 — ApproachConfidential, principal-led conversations with the mapped shortlist.
  4. 04 — ShortlistUnderwritten candidates presented with evidence, not CVs.
  5. 05 — OfferPackage design, references and counter-offer defence.
  6. 06 — CloseResignation, notice and the first hundred days, managed.

The brief names which function is being hired, which article requires that function, and whether article 2d(2) applies on nature and size or has been judged not to. It names whether the hire is also the designated daily policymaker under article 2d(1), because that person is one of the people who determine daily policy, and the compliance function in paragraph 2 is supposed to be independent of the work it checks. It names the supervisor that will actually examine the seat: DNB, the AFM, or both. Conflicts are checked before outreach. The approach stays blind until both sides want a conversation. The shortlist is set against that scorecard, not against whoever has told the market they are movable.

On the 3 compliance and regulatory seats inside the 15, the offer is built against the 4 to 7 months line, and the 13 working days are planned for the counter-offer on 27 percent of the in-house line. 2 of the 3 closed between week 10 and week 16, faster than that line. Mapping uses the research program’s map of 1,480,000+ lawyers. The Amsterdam cut is 3,000 lawyers. The compliance slice drawn from the city cohort is the bench this desk actually calls. That slice is not a count of searches.

07 — Two files

One AML hire inside ten to sixteen weeks. One combined seat that missed the line.

Both files are inside the 3, and the 3 are inside the 15. Neither names an institution. The AML hire is the payments file, one of the 2 that closed between week 10 and week 16. The crypto-asset service provider file is the other of those 2, and it is not panelled here. The second panel is the bank file, the one that ran to week 32.

AMSTERDAM × COMPLIANCE 2 FILES · ANONYMISED

Head of AML, Euronext-listed payments company

Amsterdam · one of 3 · one of the 2

Mandate
An Euronext-listed payments company needed a head of AML for the article 2d function, separate from the article 21 compliance unit.
Complication
The preferred candidate’s last financial-crime role had also been the prudential compliance seat. Article 2d(2) asks for a function independent of the work it checks.
Outcome
Shortlist in week 3. Accepted offer in week 14, inside the week 10 to week 16 subset, and faster than 4 to 7 months. The contract kept the two functions apart.

Combined Wft and Wwft seat, recut

Amsterdam · one of 3 · the bank file · week 32

Mandate
A bank that also provides investment services asked for one officer to cover article 21 of the Decree on Prudential Rules and article 2d of the Wwft.
Complication
Article 21(2) requires an annual report to daily policymakers and, where one exists, the supervisory body. Candidates who would hold both functions were not the 12 who had already refused that shape.
Outcome
The brief was split. The longer file closed in week 32, past 4 to 7 months.

08 — Sources

What each figure is allowed to prove.

›12 sources
  1. 1 Sartori & Partners — firm record Founded early 2017 by Lorenzo Sartori. Market map of 1,480,000+ lawyers. 400+ placements since 2017 (230+ in-house), of which 36 compliance and regulatory leadership placements. CCO shortlist 21 days. CCO median 10 weeks to an accepted offer. Acceptance 96 percent. Retention 97 percent at 12 months and 91 percent at 24 months. Replacement 12 months on a retained CCO search. Off-limits 24 months. Retained only. Fee 25–30 percent of first-year total compensation. Retainer 30 percent of the fee, kept if the client cancels.
  2. 2 Sartori & Partners — Amsterdam in-house line Program constants for Amsterdam, in-house line: 5 years in the market, 15 closed in-house searches over three years, 27 percent counter-offer, 13 working days from written offer to acceptance, 93 percent completion, timeline 4 to 7 months. City cohort of 250 structured interviews. Separate mapping figure of 3,000 lawyers. Of the 15, 3 were compliance and regulatory seats. Marked for replacement.
  3. 3 NOvA — De Balie in Beeld 2026 Counts as of 1 January 2026. Amsterdam arrondissement 6,788 advocates, up 118 from 6,670. National bar 19,046, up 323 (1.7 percent) from 18,723. Amsterdam is more than one third of the national bar. In 2025, 1,182 advocates were newly sworn in nationally, of whom 516 were in Amsterdam. News account, 18 March 2026: https://www.advocatenorde.nl/nieuws/balie-beeld-sterkste-groei-van-de-balie-tien-jaar-sociale-advocatuur-verder-onder-druk
  4. 4 Wwft article 2d — compliance function Consolidation of 1 January 2026. Article 2d(1): where two or more people determine daily policy, the institution designates one of them as responsible for Wwft compliance. Article 2d(2): where proportionate to nature and size, an independent and effective compliance function. Article 2d(3): that function checks statutory and internal rules and includes providing article 16 data to FIU-Nederland. Article 2d(4): where applicable and proportionate, an independent audit of the Wwft rules and of the compliance function.
  5. 5 Besluit prudentiële regels Wft, article 21 Consolidation of 29 May 2026. Article 21(1): a payment institution, clearing institution, electronic-money institution, bank, credit union, premium pension institution, limited-risk insurer, exchange institution, or the branch in article 17 keeps an organizational unit that exercises a compliance function independently and effectively. The unit checks statutory rules and the institution’s own internal rules. Article 21(2): a bank that may provide investment services in the Netherlands also advises, monitors procedures, and reports at least annually to daily policymakers and, if present, the supervisory body.
  6. 6 AFM — Herziene leidraad Wwft, 5 June 2024 Publication date 5 June 2024. Footnote 26 points the compliance-function duty to article 2d Wwft. Nature and size is a combination of factors, not headcount alone: assets, clients, foreign or higher-risk clients, products, and the use of advanced systems. The compliance function may be outsourced in whole or in part. Independence, in principle, keeps the people exercising it out of the activities they supervise.
  7. 7 AFM — From 30 December 2024, licence or notification required for crypto services MiCAR supervision of crypto services applies from 30 December 2024. Providers already registered with DNB had a six-month transition and needed a MiCAR licence or notification by 30 June 2025. The AFM states that an application takes at least five to six months, and longer if the file is amended.
  8. 8 AFM — Annual report 2025 Key figures 2025: 375 licences in total, of which 18 crypto operators (a new line, +18), 30 in asset management (+8), 311 in financial services (+17), and 16 in audit and reporting quality (+6). Those four lines add to 375. Separately, the report says 311 new financial-services licences were granted in 2025, including extensions and changes of legal form. In 2025 the AFM granted 15 MiCAR licences. It had 36 pending licence applications and notifications for crypto service providers, and completed 3 notifications. The DNB registration regime ended in 2025 and the AFM started supervising crypto service providers. The AFM is a foundation with its registered office in Amsterdam. These licence counts are national.
  9. 9 AFM — Wwft/Sw findings, investment-institution managers, 2025 The 2025 Wwft and Sanctions Act questionnaire went to 920 managers of investment institutions. 94 percent responded. Reference date 31 December 2024. The group included 106 AIFM-licensed managers without a UCITS licence, 15 UCITS managers, 773 registered AIFM-light managers, and 26 branches. National supervisory population, not an Amsterdam headcount.
  10. 10 DNB — head office De Nederlandsche Bank’s head office is in Amsterdam. The cash center is near Zeist. No street address is repeated on this page.
  11. 11 DORA — Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 Article 64: the regulation applies from 17 January 2025.
  12. 12 NGB — Nationale Enquête Bedrijfsjuristen 2025 Mr. Online, 27 November 2025, reporting the NGB member survey. 360 responses from more than 1,900 members. 46 percent of full-time respondents at EUR 100,000 to EUR 150,000, against 36 percent in 2023. 4 percent above EUR 250,000. National in-house sample, not an Amsterdam CCO band. Survey PDF, publication date 27 November 2025: https://www.ngb.nl/l/nl/library/download/urn:uuid:6058a923-f338-4a54-8e09-14b6903f21d6/ngb+nationale+enqu%C3%AAte+bedrijfsjuristen+2025.pdf?format=save_to_disk

09 — Questions

Compliance recruitment in Amsterdam

What is compliance recruitment Amsterdam hired to do?

A general counsel, a chief compliance officer, or a chief operating officer hires compliance recruitment Amsterdam when the company needs a compliance leader it does not already know. A posting reaches people who are looking. A retained search approaches officers who are in post. Sartori & Partners has completed 36 compliance and regulatory leadership placements since 2017, inside 400+ placements (230+ in-house). The CCO clock on that firm-wide book is 21 days to a shortlist and 10 weeks median to an accepted offer. The Amsterdam in-house line, which this desk shares, closed 15 searches over three years, of which 3 were compliance and regulatory seats. The city hub is legal recruitment in Amsterdam. The practice is compliance recruitment.

Which Amsterdam employers actually hire a compliance leader?

Four shapes, and they are not the same seat. A bank, payment institution, or electronic-money institution needs the independent compliance function in article 21 of the Decree on Prudential Rules under the Financial Supervision Act, in the text of the 29 May 2026 consolidation. Separately, article 2d of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act, consolidation of 1 January 2026, requires a designated daily policymaker where two or more people run the institution, and, where proportionate to nature and size, an independent compliance function that reports unusual transactions to FIU-Nederland. The AFM, whose registered office is in Amsterdam, granted 15 MiCAR licences in 2025 and lists 18 crypto operators in that year’s key figures, inside 375 licences in total. Those AFM counts are national. Of 15 closed Amsterdam in-house searches over three years, 3 were compliance and regulatory seats.

How long does a compliance search in Amsterdam take?

The Amsterdam in-house line runs 4 to 7 months from signed brief to accepted offer, on 15 closed searches over three years, at 93 percent completion. Written offer to acceptance on those 15 ran 13 working days. A counter-offer arrived on 27 percent. The firm-wide CCO median is 10 weeks, on 36 compliance and regulatory leadership placements since 2017. 2 of the 3 Amsterdam compliance seats closed between week 10 and week 16. An Euronext-listed payments company in Amsterdam hired its head of AML in week 14. 1 of the 3 ran to week 32 because the brief had combined the article 21 function and the article 2d function. The fee is 25–30 percent of total first-year compensation. Thirty percent of the fee is the retainer at engagement, and it is kept if the search is canceled.

What does compliance recruitment in Amsterdam pay against?

There is no published Amsterdam chief compliance officer band. The Nederlands Genootschap van Bedrijfsjuristen’s Nationale Enquête Bedrijfsjuristen 2025, published 27 November 2025 on 360 responses from more than 1,900 members, put 46 percent of full-time respondents at EUR 100,000 to EUR 150,000, against 36 percent in the 2023 survey, and 4 percent above EUR 250,000. That is a national in-house member sample, not an Amsterdam compliance officer. The comparison pages are compliance officer salary, 2026, AML compliance officer salary, 2026, in-house counsel salary in Amsterdam, 2026, and lawyer salary in Amsterdam, 2026.

Can one person be both the Wft compliance function and the Wwft officer?

The instruments do not make them the same job. Article 21 of the Decree on Prudential Rules requires the named institutions, including a bank, a payment institution, and an electronic-money institution, to keep an organizational unit that exercises a compliance function independently and effectively. Article 2d(1) of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act, where two or more people determine daily policy, designates one of those people as responsible for Wwft compliance. Article 2d(2) then requires, where proportionate, a separate independent compliance function. Of 22 compliance, MLRO, or financial-crime counsel inside the Amsterdam interview cohort of 250, 12 said they would not take a seat that combined the two. 1 of 3 closed compliance and regulatory searches ran to week 32, past 4 to 7 months, on a combined brief.

Where does an Amsterdam compliance hire sit next to the rest of the legal search?

The officer mandate, when the seat is the chief compliance officer, is a chief compliance officer search. Financial-crime seats are on sanctions and AML recruitment. The wider Amsterdam legal department is in-house counsel recruiting in Amsterdam. The city note is the Amsterdam legal market, 2026. The research map behind the work is 1,480,000+ lawyers. The Amsterdam cut of that map is 3,000 lawyers.

10 — Related

City hub, the practice, and the pay pages.

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Brief the function, the article, and the supervisor.

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