About

Ioana Regenbogen is the director and head of legal and corporate affairs for ING Bank Amsterdam Bucharest Branch, the Romanian company that operates as a branch of Dutch multinational financial company ING Bank. In her role, she manages legal support for all business lines of the bank including retail, mid corporate banking, wholesale banking, financial markets, and for other entities within ING Group Romania involving leasing, factoring and insurance brokerage. Through her expertise and dedication to the bank, in December 2015 her role was expanded to cover the coporate affairs function. In light of this new role, Regenbogen started to coordinate activities relating to the representation, advocay and promotion of ING’s interests in industry organisations. Regenborgen explains that the most important achievement is her skilled approach to delivering legal services, adding: ‘Our focus is on understanding the need and on finding practical, sound legal solutions instead of hunting legal risks and putting them on the table to be decided by management. Benefits for the company and for the clients [are an] increase of efficiency, a decrease in legal services delivery time and increase of and high level of client satisfaction’. Regenborgen regonises that the root of her success lies with being an agile in-house counsel with strong business knowledge, as well as welcoming challenges and adopting broad-based thinking aligned to the ever-changing demands of the bank.