Camilo Atala Faraj
Camilo Atala Faraj

Camilo Atala Faraj, as President of Grupo Financiero Ficohsa, has been a key player in making Banco Ficohsa the largest bank in Honduras, with more than 20 years of experience and a risk rating of A+ issued by Fitch Ratings. The main strategy applied that has determined its success is to know the market and its clients.   

For Camilo Atala, trust in his collaborators is part of this tactic, since human resources represent his main growth potential.  

Camilo Atala Faraj: All success requires an open mind.  

As an experienced businessman he knows that all success requires an open mind and looking towards the future, as Central America is updating its economy, a situation that’s increasingly visible to international markets, thinking differently and knowing that the region will become more and more internationalized will give the strength to face external challenges.  

Atala Faraj projects Banco Ficohsa within the group of financial leaders in Central America and the Caribbean, with a presence in the international markets.  

Central America and the Caribbean, with a presence in the U.S. Hispanic market. «We want to be the partners of the major banks in Europe, while at the same time being the reliable and responsible partners of the major banks of the great nations of Asia.   

He emphasized that it’s necessary to have a coherent and responsible fiscal policy, so that the State captures the resources of all to be destined to the improvement of the entire population.   

Cluster formation will be vital for the emergence of regional players.  

He knows that there’s still a long way to go, since the business world hasn’t discovered and taken advantage of all the existing opportunities.  

The businessman indicated that the formation of «clusters» will be vital for the emergence of regional players, because currently the production level of companies is insufficient to become regional players.