Wouter Dhont

Meet Wouter Dhont

Wouter is a hands-on, pragmatic, but theoretically strong compliance officer with broad experience in both in-house roles as function roles.

Before launching his one-person compliance consulting firm called iComply, he started his career as a Trainee within the Dexia Belgium Audit  and Control department, where he occupied several roles over a period of 6  years. He then moved to Fortuneo, a small Belgian online broker and savings institution,  where he took up the role as Head of Compliance, Legal, Internal control and Operational risk management and where he was a member of the management team. After that enriching experience, he moved to Royal Bank of Canada, where he occupied a split role as Head of Compliance of the Belgian Branch and Regulatory change manager for the continental European activities.

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Wouter Dhont and iComply

Finally, in July 2017, he started iComply, through which he contributed to

• several application files for credit institutions, FinTechs, investment funds, etc
• setting up compliance, governance and risk management frameworks for diverse financial institutions
• remediation exercises next to supervisory interventions or inspections
• the execution of compliance controls, internal reporting initiatives, governance restructuring, etc.  

Wouter holds a Law degree, obtained the Certified Compliance officer certificate in 2013 and is often asked to be a member of the Compliance certification program jury. He also participated in the Guberna Board members in the financial sector program. Finally, he holds roles as a board member of two Belgian UCITS investement funds and a Belgian payment institution. 

Wouter is known for his very dynamic approach, excellent communication skills, in-depth assessments and high-quality deliverables.

And as the world is not about Compliance only, Wouter is sportive, loves a good glass of wine and is the father of 3 sons.