Argentina
Compliance
Automotive
October 2012
Vol. 6, No. 21, Autumn 2012
Karina Pelaez
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Karina Pelaez is currently the Legal & Compliance Head of Toyota Compañía Financiera de Argentina S.A., a subsidiary of Toyota Financial Services Corporation. She has worked with Aguas Argentinas S.A., a public utility subsidiary of French company Suez S.A. She has counselled clients in a broad range of matters, representing principally banks and corporations as well. She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires School of Law in 1991. She also holds a degree in Management for Lawyers from the Yale School of Management (2012), one in Corporate Governance from the CEMA University (2007), as well as a degree in Negotiation from the University of San Andrés (2007). She has been a professor at the University of Buenos Aires School of Law and she is a current member of the Banks Lawyers Committee.
Toyota Compañia Financiera de Argentina S.A.
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Toyota Financial Services Corporation was created in July 2000, a Japan-based holding company wholly owned by Toyota Motor Corporation, to conduct all the global financial businesses of the TOYOTA Group.
Toyota Financial Services Corporation is the financial services institution of Toyota Motor Corporation with offices in 30 countries in all the continents. With over 10 million clients, it is one of the largest brand financial institutions across the globe.
Toyota Financial Services Corporation has a clear vision and philosophy based on clients’ needs and on the TOYOTA network of dealers.
In order to provide financial services in Argentina, both to Toyota Dealers and Customers, Toyota Financial Services Corporation decided, in 2004, to open a financial company, governed by the Financial Institutions Law [Ley de Entidades Financieras].
Such institution was created as Toyota Compañía Financiera de Argentina S.A.
In January 2005, Toyota Compañía Financiera de Argentina S.A. went into business in Argentina with a view to rendering the broadest range of financial services to TOYOTA users.
Argentina
Compliance
Automotive
October 2012
Vol. 6, No. 21, Autumn 2012