About

Jacobo Martínez Flores has operated in financial institutions for 25 years, working for Finamex Casa de Bolsa between 1991 and 2003 and then joining his current employers, Monex Grupo Financiero immediately after. He has served as general counsel for the bank since 2013 and also holds the position of corporate legal director. Martínez Flores has created an environment of internal control and risk mitigation in the company, and has been integral to the buying and selling of companies in the US, Canada and UK that has allowed Monex to grow in foreign markets. Martínez Flores has systematised the legal department’s processes to allow timely reports in order to evaluate risks and take immediate actions to mitigate them. The team know has a firm grasp on the current and periodic status regarding internal control processes and the status of pending issues and trials in process. Martínez Flores says that to ‘provide legal certainty to all actions of Monex and its executives is the most important added value’ of the legal team.