About

With vast experience in leading banks in the country and the region, Orlando Zuniga started his work as a legal professional in the area of recruitment and registration, to later become part of the business contracting area of a banking institution with booming and dynamic development in the region. Some of the prestigious positions he’s held include senior legal coordinator legalisation of business credits at Citi for ten years, and legal manager at Development Bank of El Salvador for three years. In these roles Zuniga learnt about the structure of local banking operations, as well as credit baking operations and regional and complex guarantees, as well as having contact with various entities of commercial banks, development banks and multilateral banks. Since joining Banco Industrial El Salvador in 2013, he highlights he had a unique perspective to: ‘create and configure the legal area’. Initially, the development and operational requirements of the bank required a team of internal attorneys consisting of two people, who under his coordination, worked in all the areas generally known: formalisation of operations, registration and registration of guarantees, recovery of credit assets, as well as attention to supervisors and regulators. Highlighting the importance of getting to know the business entirely, Zuniga explains: ‘we are sure that by giving support in all the demands of our clients, we do not only strive to be a better bank, not only a better client, not only a better society but also a better country’.