Roderik Vrolijk

Roderik Vrolijk specialises in financial regulation, focusing in particular on fintech and innovation in the financial sector. His expertise includes advising clients on market access queries, licence applications, product launches, and their dealings with the Dutch and European financial regulators.

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Roderik Vrolijk

Partner Amsterdam

Roderik Vrolijk specialises in financial regulation, focusing in particular on fintech and innovation in the financial sector. His expertise includes advising clients on market access queries, licence applications, product launches, and their dealings with the Dutch and European financial regulators.

Roderik Vrolijk

Partner Amsterdam

He works closely together with Stibbe's technology teams in Amsterdam and Brussels to assist clients in navigating the regulatory challenges and opportunities arising from new technologies and the introduction of innovative products in the financial sector.

Roderik advises a wide range of Dutch and international financial institutions and service providers. His clients include banks, insurers, asset managers, investors and fintechs, such as payment services providers, e-money institutions, consumer credit providers and crypto services providers.

He is also an active member of the Dutch Association for Securities Law and chief editor of the Dutch Financial Law Review. Roderik furthermore teaches a course on fintech as part of the postgraduate specialisation programme of the Grotius Academy, and a course on the Digital Operational Resilience Act as part of the University of Amsterdam’s Banking & Insurance postgraduate programme.

Roderik has a Master of Law from Utrecht University (2008, cum laude).

Languages: Dutch, English, Spanish
Admitted to the Amsterdam Bar: 2009
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