looking upwards and forwards
The biz.Clarency platform wasn't the brainchild of any one person; it's the result of the views, experience and creativity of a highly experienced bunch. They've been working together less formally for a long time, mostly on the better-than-bank compliance processes that have driven the Choice Group to its leading position in global payments. It was through those processes that the concept of living diligence was born - the ability to re-evaluate every transaction and its parties rather than just onboarding a customer at the outset.
It's an interesting mix of skills; there's not much duplication, but lots of cross-over, so it's easy for ideas to be shared and nurtured, making it possible to bring those ideas into actual use. It also makes for highly entertaining (and sometimes quite loud) meetings.
Jasmuliadi Bin Jasmani
deputy head of compliance
Jasmuliadi, or Jas as he's better known (no one has time in their day for a name that long), comes to us with a good background in major banks and a great work ethic. He worked in the anti-scam team with DBS, experience that's given him excellent insight into how fraudsters' minds work.
His instincts and attention to detail make him an important asset to our compliance team.
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Justin Silas
head of compliance
Justin's impressive record in the the payment industry made him an ideal choice to head up the compliance mastery that's core to our operations. His background includes treasury and onboarding operations in OCBC's private banking subsidiary, Bank of Singapore. He went hands-on with compliance with EZ-Link, Singapore's primary transport payment provider. This involved developing compliance operations and establishing fraud investigation and management systems.
All this equipped him to enhance and extend Clarrency's suite of internal and external policies and procedures in accordance with the relevant regulations and legislations. Day-to-day, he's involved with overseeing transactional and remittance matters, as well as liaising with regulatory authorities concerning case escalations and transactional reporting.
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Miel van Blittersijk
director, Asian Pacific
Miel was already incumbent in a senior management role when we acquired Clarency in 2017. He oversaw a smooth transfer of operations, including working with regulators to negotiate a change of regulatory status for the company. That’s no easy task, and Miel’s successful execution of the project made it clear that this was no ordinary executive.
With a string of financial qualifications to his name, Miel combines technical knowledge with a practical approach to the real world – essential attributes when you’re working with a company that’s constantly expanding the envelope. In fact he’s so good that we can overlook his weird predilection for running marathons and being unacceptably fit.
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Pieter van Rooyen
chief technical officer
Salesforce is an important component of our user interfaces. It allows easy, industry-standard communication between customer and partner systems and our own. We encountered Pieter when he took on the job of developing our Salesforce integration.
We were impressed.
Pieter brings twenty years’ experience of working with CRM and ERP systems. Like Michael, he’s also a fluent Earthling-speaker, making for an IT management team that can translate requirements into rapid, fit-for-purpose applications.
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