About

Having an impressive career that spans two decades as an in-house lawyer within the financial services sector, the knowledgeable and widely respected Rony Jara serves as general counsel and secretary at BBVA Chile. Having worked at the bank since 2004, Jara’s more recent career has been focusing on navigating through a difficult regulatory and economic situation in Chile. To overcome difficulties associated with the significant expansion of the regulatory framework in Chile, with the impending adoption of the Basel III framework, Jara and his legal team have adopted a more proactive approach to new compliance requirements – by using their expertise to predict regulatory impact, the team is able to help the bank to prepare. To overcome the country’s change in economic fortune, BBVA’s legal team has adopted a more cautious approach to managing its expenses, while at the same time remaining creative and achieving substantially more work with fewer resources. Jara has been able to spearhead this initiative and has developed a high-quality team internally to handle this. Prior to joining BBVA in 2004, Jara worked at Citibank Chile. In addition to his in-house career, he has also served as law professor at Universidad de los Andes for the last 21 years.