About

A banking regulatory specialist with over ten years of experience, César Augusto Saavedra Arias states that he is an ‘expert in interpretation, application and implementation of specialised regulations and their impact on the business’, and is proud of his ‘great versatility and the ability to find solutions and find business opportunities in the face of possible adversity’. Saavedra has been able to bring all these attributes to bear over the course of his career, which has been undertaken in the in-house legal teams of BBVA Banco Continental and Banco Financiero del Perú before taking on his current role as deputy legal manager of Banco Ripley. On the improvements he has made to the team since taking over in 2016, Saavedra points to the ‘greater interaction [that] has been generated with other business units in order to focus legal concepts on the products offered to the market’, as well as ‘new market conduct and compliance provisions that have been implemented’. He has also worked on a number of marquee transactions over the course of his career, and points out: ‘In 2015, at Banco Financiero del Perú, I provided advice and management on the transfer of the management of the Diners Club Perú credit card portfolio to the company. In 2016, at Banco Ripley Peru, I contributed advice and management on Issuance of Negotiable Deposit Certificates for up to S/200m and issuance of corporate bonds for up to S/50m. In 2017, I provided advice and management on issues of negotiable deposit certificates for up to S/225m and issuance of corporate bonds for up to S/144.4m’.