Connective Payments is expanding with the addition of Karin Kleerebezem to the team as Associate Partner Payment Contracts Policies & Legal Advice

Karin Kleerebezem joins Connective Payments in the role of Associate Partner Payment Contracts, Policies & Legal Advice. With Karin on board, Connective Payments’ expertise now includes the unique experience and competencies of a payments lawyer. Positioned on the intersection between ICT-law and financial legislation her knowledge unites the legal aspects of technology (Intellectual Property, SaaS, EULAs, service levels, forms of commercial cooperation) and the financial supervision directives such as EMD2, AML-CTF, including e-commerce and privacy: GDPR.

After an employment of nearly 10 years at Bibit/RBS WorldPay (now: WorldPay), one of the Netherlands’ first and successful payment service providers, she has provided her services as an autonomous legal counsel since 2011 for a range of clients all playing different roles in the payments value chain. Amongst them are exempt and licensed payment institutions, electronic money institutions, gift card issuers, terminal suppliers, technical payment service providers and merchants. For her clients she realised frameworks for commercial contracts and terms and conditions, she helped them obtaining and keeping up with the requirements to maintain PI-licenses and advised on generic legal issues, which in payments always tend to require an extra-ordinary approach or outcome.

Cooperating with Connective Payments she shall be involved and account for the legal aspects of the projects we work on, varying between product development, vendor/ partner selection processes and so on.