At its core, FEC is committed to maintaining the highest standards of financial integrity. By leveraging collective authority and oversight capacity, FEC seeks to prevent misuse of financial infrastructures including money laundering, fraud, tax evasion, and other financial misconduct. Through coordinated measures, FEC strives to safeguard the financial system and protect the public interest.
Recognising that financial crime and illicit financing often transcend national borders, FEC emphasizes collaboration not only within the Netherlands but also with international partners. Such cross-border cooperation ensures that enforcement and regulatory efforts remain effective in a globalized financial environment, allowing FEC to contribute to the broader fight against financial crime worldwide.
The Financial Enforcement Centre (FEC) is a collaborative hub formed by a coalition of public authorities with supervisory, regulatory, investigative or prosecutorial mandates. Its purpose is to enforce financial-sector rules, uphold standards of integrity, and combat financial crime through coordinated, multi-agency action.
Through combining the resources, expertise, and statutory powers of its partners, FEC serves as a centralised entity that can respond to complex financial threats more effectively than any single institution operating in isolation. This collaborative model allows for both preventive and reactive measures bolstering trust in the financial system and contributing to overall economic stability.
The FEC Unit is staffed by professionals who are seconded from our partner organizations, bringing diverse expertise to our operations.
We operate under the authority of the Financial Enforcement Centre partners, ensuring aligned objectives and coordinated enforcement actions.
Our structure enables seamless collaboration between different regulatory and enforcement bodies in the financial sector.
Professionals seconded to FEC retain their employment with their home organisation, but are assigned to the FEC for a fixed term. Typically, a secondment consists of two successive periods of two years each. This provides both continuity and the opportunity for new perspectives, ensuring staff can contribute meaningfully while maintaining connection with their original institution.
This model allows FEC to draw on a rotating pool of experts, bringing in fresh energy and diverse backgrounds at regular intervals while preserving institutional links and long-term knowledge retention.
The FEC collaborates with financial regulatory bodies to establish robust oversight and ensure adherence to industry standards.
Partnerships with law enforcement agencies enhance our capacity to investigate and combat financial crimes effectively.
Collaboration with other relevant organizations provides access to specialized knowledge from across various financial sectors.
These partnerships create a more comprehensive and effective enforcement mechanism than any single organization could achieve alone.
If you're currently employed by one of our partner organizations or observers, you may be eligible for a secondment position at the FEC, contributing your expertise to our collaborative mission.
We encourage interested professionals to check this site regularly for upcoming vacancy announcements as secondment opportunities become available throughout the year.
Even when no formal vacancies are posted, you can express your interest in future opportunities, allowing us to contact you when relevant positions open up.
In a modern financial and economic environment characterized by complex financial instruments, cross-border transactions, and rapid changes including digitalization the risk of misuse increases. Traditional, siloed oversight or enforcement by single agencies may struggle to catch sophisticated patterns of abuse or money laundering.
Moreover, FEC’s collaborative design facilitates faster information sharing, better situational awareness, and the ability to adapt to evolving threats such as money laundering techniques, corporate misuse, or financial malpractice helping to preserve trust in the financial system.
The Financial Enforcement Centre offers a unique opportunity for professionals from our partner organizations to contribute to the integrity of the financial sector through meaningful work in enforcement and regulation.
If you’re passionate about financial security and interested in a secondment opportunity, we invite you to express your interest and become part of our collaborative effort to protect and strengthen the financial system.