A bank employee was handed a 30 months professional ban for creating bank accounts, attaching credit cards to them and using them to gamble online. The employee was able to hide his actions long enough to cause €850.000 in damages as he tried to cover up betting losses with engaging in more bets. The employee finally reported himself to his management. The Disciplinary Commission ruled that the employee’s actions constituted a severe breach of the Bankers Oath. The name of the (now former) bank employee has been added to the registry of the Foundation for Banking Ethics Enforcement, which can be accessed by Dutch banks.

A bank employee was handed a 6 months professional ban for refusing to cooperate in a potential fraud investigation. After €20.000 had gone missing, all signs pointed to one employee possibly being responsible. The employee refused to allow investigating staff access to his mobile banking app. The employee was fired by the bank and reported to the Foundation for Banking Ethics Enforcement. The Disciplinary Commission ruled that the refusel to cooperate constituted a serious breach of the Banker’s Oath. 

The former employee’s name has been added to the foundation’s registry, to which Dutch banks have access.

A bank employee was handed a 3 months professional ban after it was discovered that she had raised the credit limits of her own or her husband’s bank account. This is in breach of the bank’s own rules. The Disciplinary Commission ruled the behavior and the breaking of the bank’s internal rules a violation of the Banker’s Oath. The name of the person will be added to the registry of the Foundation for Banking Ethics Enforcement, which can be accessed by all Dutch banks.

A bank employee was handed a 6 months professional ban because the Disciplinary Commission holds him partially responsible for falsifying a letter and filing it as evidence in a civil court case. The falsified letter refers to a supposed meeting between the bank employee and a client during which matters about the client’s mortgage were supposedly discusses. Such a meeting never took place. The Disciplinary Commission found that the bank employee falsified and filed the letter for his own personal gain; to win the court case. The employee was fired and his name has been entered into the registry of the Foundation for Banking Ethics Enforcement that is accessible by Dutch banks.

Professional bans were handed down to three mortgage advisors at a national bank. The cases are connected to the earlier verdicts against 61 professionals of the same bank, published on April 3, 2019. The names of the employees have been added to the foundation’s registry, to which Dutch banks have access.

Professional bans were handed down to three mortgage advisors at a national bank. The cases are connected to the earlier verdicts against 61 professionals of the same bank, published on April 3, 2019.

A bank employee was handed a 9 month professional ban from working at a Dutch bank after it was established that he lied about diploma’s he claimed to have attained, and falsifying an email to cover up his lies. The bank discovered his transgressions, had him fired and reported him with to the Foundation for Banking Ethics Enforcement. The Disciplinary Commission ruled that the lying and the falsification to cover up the lie constituted a serious breach of the Banker’s Oath.

The Disciplinary Commission imposed professional bans on 61 bank employees. They all worked at the same department that dealt with mortgage applications at the same bank and copied or falsified signatures of clients in order to speed up or bypass a part of the procedure. Since the cases were largely comparable, the Prosecutor’s Office brought all cases before the Disciplinary Commission in one procedure. As some employees copied or falsified only one signature, while others copied or falsified multiple signatures, the Disciplinary Commission imposed professional bans of different lenghts, from two to six weeks.

The Disciplinary Commission pointed to special circumstances at the bank’s department for the length of the different sanctions, among them the influence of the working culture at the department.

The names of the 61 bank employees were added to the names registry.

TRB-2019-3969. 

A bank employee reaved a client’s bank debit card after learning the client’s personal PIN code. The employee then raised the maximum withdrawal limit of the card to €10.000. An until now unknown person late at night then withdrew €5.500 from the client’s bank account. The bank fired the (temporary) employee, filed criminal charges and also filed a complaint with the Foundation for Banking Ethics Enforcement. The Disciplinary Commission imposed a six month professional ban.