Ben van der Velpen joined ING bank on JanuarY 1, 1984. After several management functions within the post-trade securities environment Ben became member of diversE local and European Committees dealing with securities harmonisation and standardisation initiatives.

From this perspective he is for example a member of the T2S Corporate Actions Sub Group, Corporate Action Joint Working Group as well as the Global Securities Market Practice Group for Corporate Actions. Next to this he is also co-chairing the Central and Eastern Europe Market Implementation Group with regards to the Market Standards for Corporate Action Processing. On a local level Ben represents ING for example within the T2S National User Group and the Working group Settlement, Clearing & Asset Servicing.