Lisette Heerze & Jasper Gielkens – FIU Jaaroverzicht 2025

How is financial crime evolving? Which new money laundering structures is the FIU seeing emerge? And what do the latest insights mean for banks, compliance professionals, and other reporting institutions? In this episode of the Leaders in Finance Compliance Podcast, Jeroen Broekema speaks with Lisette Heerze, Acting Head of FIU-Netherlands, and Jasper Gielkens, Coordinator of the Information and Communication Team, about the recently published FIU Annual Review 2025. Which trends stand out? Why is the FIU increasingly seeing professional money laundering networks exploiting vulnerabilities in laws and regulations? What do developments regarding healthcare fraud, criminal third-party payments, and cash compensation mean for financial institutions? And how do reporting institutions strike the right balance between reporting volume and reporting quality? They also discuss the quality of reports, the role of data-driven investigation, collaboration between public and private parties, and the question of how the FIU aims to increasingly move from incident to insight. In addition, they discuss the introduction of AMLA and AMLR, the new powers of the FIU, and their impact on the Dutch anti-money laundering approach. Finally, they look ahead. What do these developments mean for compliance professionals? Which signals should financial institutions recognize sooner? And how can banks, regulators, and the FIU work together to erect more effective barriers against financial crime?