Bouke De Vries Email & Phone Number

Netherlands

Amsterdam Area

The Dutch Banking Association operates with a Working Group on Climate and a Platform on Sustainable Finance to respond to the regulatory agenda and to accelerate sustainability transitions, They provide a platform to members to discuss draft legislation and supervision issues and to share best practices. The WG also works on topics such as measurement of.

Europa

Private finance has a role to play in closing the adaptation gap and by shaping financing to a changing climate, banks can contribute to mitigating the risks from physical impacts and seize business opportunities, as clients, markets and technologies respond to climate change. Over the past approx 4 years this has been discussed in consecutive working.

Brussels

From end 2018- end 2022 Chair of the WG

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

I am one of the advisors to the Board on Public Affairs. The team is responsible for maintaining relations with governments and other stakeholders of the Rabobank and we advise on regulation. We focus on topics such as prudential regulation, conduct regulation, sustainable finance and climate change, supervision, cybersecurity, payments services, F&A..

I have set up and coordinated Rabobank's Climate Program in cooperation with a dedicated program manager. This program is now integrated with a more broad sustainability program.

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

The Economic Research Department publishes reports about economic forecasts, the housing market, monetary policies, about impact of regulatory reforms etc. The research topics of the team Financial Sector Research included topics such as the reform of the deposit guarantee system, implementation of Basel 3, changes in corporate governance of banks.

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