Yolande
Rolle
Yolande H. Rolle is Deputy Legal Counsel at the Insurance Commission of The Bahamas (“the Commission”) having joined the Legal Unit at the Commission in November 2010. Since joining the Commission, Yolande has become an integral part of the Commission’s work in AML/CFT related matters, and has been instrumental in responding to international and regional bodies such as the FATF, CFATF, and the OECD, particularly on matters related to AML/CFT in the insurance industry. She represents the Commission on the Bahamas’s National Identified Risk Framework Steering Committee and at CFATF Plenary Meetings. Yolande has presented at AML/CFT conferences and industry briefings, and has participated as a panelist in several “Meet the Regulator” national industry meetings.
Prior to joining the Commission, Yolande served as a Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) where she conducted prosecutions involving the proceeds of crime and asset forfeiture. She also worked briefly in the International Cooperation Unit at the OAG where her responsibilities included responding to enquiries from foreign counterparts in relation to involving money laundering and proceeds of crime. Yolande has been trained as an Expert Assessor for Mutual Evaluations of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). She holds an International Diploma in Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering from the International Compliance Association. She is also a Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitration (Bahamas Branch), having attained the Advanced Certificate in International Arbitration. She has attended numerous AML/CFT training seminars and conferences both locally and internationally.
In 2007, she became a Counsel and Attorney-at-Law in the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and a Member of the Bar of The Bahamas. She presently serves on the Ethics Committee of the Bahamas Bar Association. Before that, she worked in the communications field as a marketing and public relations specialist for over 10 years. She obtained a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the West Indies. She is a graduate of The American University, Washington, D. C., and Nova Southeastern University, Florida, having obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Public Communications, and Master of Business Administration, respectively.