About

Formerly in the public sector, first as general counsel of government investment bank COFIDE and then as legal superintendent at Peru’s banking regulatory body, the Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and Pension Funds (SBS), Enriqueta González de Saenz was appointed general counsel and secretary of the board of directors at BBVA Banco Continental in April 2001. Since 2009, has also been chief compliance officer at the company. Described as ’an excellent lawyer with complete mastery of legal banking matters’, she participated in the special group that drafted the current banking law in 1996. More recently she has played a key role in innovative transactions undertaken by BBVA, such as Peru’s first mortgage-backed securitization deal in 2007, and the simplication of the contracts for the retail business in 2011 (which have since become standard for both the local banking industry and the BBVA Group in general). As president of the banking law committee of Peru’s banking association (ASBANC) in 2009, she also has experience representing the industry before congress and the banking regulator in relation to key regulatory issues. Internally, her management skills are noted, with admirers pointing to her ‘ability to recruit and keep an extraordinary team of in-house lawyers’, not least Anabelí González Velapatiño, head of legal for global banking (corporate and investment banking). During González’s tenure, BBVA Continental has grown to be the second largest financial institution in the country.