About

Jeroen Batema is a Ph.D. student at the School of Business and Economics at VU in Amsterdam and director and co-founder of Open Source Investor Services B.V. 

Jeroen's research agenda is focused on wholesale and mortgage lending, banking regulation, financial stability, credit loss analysis, credit modeling, and securitisation. 

He started his career in commercial lending at ING Bank. In 2000, he set up Credit Portfolio Management at NIBC, where he led the foundation for a successful Basel II IRB Advanced application.  In 2007, he became responsible for the transaction team of Credit Portfolio Management at BNP Paribas Fortis and closed several post-crisis and Basel 2-compliant securitization transactions. Further, he is the founding chairman of Global Credit Data. He holds a master's degree in law from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.