History
Ben Hur joined the financial services industry in 1977, moving in to Compliance in 1988, he has worked for several major companies including:
11 years at Abbey Life, 2 years as one of the Group Compliance Officers at The Royal Bank of Scotland, Compliance Manager for a large IFA network and as an Insurance Ombudsman's Assistant at the IOB.
Ben is currently the MLRO and CO for NIBC Bank N.V. where he has been for over nine years. Ben currently works in the UK and in Holland where he occasionally works for NIBC's Group Compliance; additionally, Ben’s remit also means he has Compliance reporting responsibility to Group Compliance for NIBC's New York Office where since 2006 he has worked for a week twice yearly. NIBC promoted Ben to Associate Director during 2007.
Ben started MLROs.com in December 2005 with 140 members; MLROs.com has seen a tremendous surge in membership since 2005 (at March 2010 membership had reached 670), as Ben's enthusiasm to bring practising MLRO’s together in a fee free environment for networking, benchmarking and learning.
Ben is a well known conference speaker having given presentations for several institutions, including: The Financial Times, The Securities Institute, Anti Money Laundering Master class, British Bankers Association, The European Financial Crime conference, The Compliance Register and many more including several major International events.
Ben was industry voted (The UK Compliance Register Awards) "Best MLRO of the Year 2004" and was one of the final nominees in 2005 and the Runner up in 2006 and 2007. He was also one of the two runners up in the Annual Complinet Compliance Awards held in February 2007 and January 2008. Ben was also the runner up in 2008 (Compliance Register Awards) for Best UK Compliance Officer.
Lastly, Ben has assisted in work for a project that provided information to the UK House of Lords, and in March 2010 he went to the European House of Parliament to advise MEP’s on Anti Money Laundering issues.
