Students from the Corporate Governance class of The College of The Bahamas’s (COB) LL.B. Programme recently were treated to a special session at the Bahamas International Securities Exchange (BISX) with … Read More
Caribbean Forum on Shifting Tides: Challenges and Opportunities
During the 5th Caribbean Forum in Trinidad and Tobago today, Caribbean Prime Ministers, Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors joined representatives from the private sector and international organizations to discuss … Read More
Skills-Based Training Programmes
The Bahamas is set to establish a nation-wide, demand-driven apprenticeship programme that will combine on and off-the-job training to provide unemployed youth and adults between the ages of 16 and … Read More
Yves Lourdin Recognised for FSI Excellence Award
BFSB CEO Tanya McCartney announced today that Mr. Yves Lourdin has been selected for the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award in Financial Services. The Award will be presented at BFSB’s annual … Read More
Recognising People Power in the Industry
The nominees for BFSB’s 2016 FSI Excellence Awards have been published. Introduced in 2001, these Awards recognize and pay tribute to the “People Power” that drives the financial services sector. … Read More
BEPS Action 14 Peer Reviews
The OECD has released the first schedule for the Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) Peer Review and Monitoring Process under Action 14 of the BEPS Action Plan. The key documents relating … Read More
Way Forward Identified on Correspondent Banking Challenge
Stakeholders, including senior representatives of international financial institutions, commercial banks, central banks, governments the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Caribbean Development Bank met in Antigua and Barbuda on 27 … Read More
The Caribbean Response to the Withdrawal of Correspondent Banking
Today, IMF Deputy Managing Director Tao Zhang addressed a [Caribbean Finance Conference](https://bfsb-bahamas.com/news.php?cmd=view&id=3660) being hosted in Antigua. The IMF representative pointed to the linkages between financial services and tourism, and other … Read More
9th Meeting of Global Forum
[The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes](http://www.oecd.org/tax/transparency/) will host its 9th meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia on 2-4 November 2016. According to a release from the … Read More
106th Jurisdiction Joins Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters
The Cook Islands have signed the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters. The Convention, signed today, together with the [Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of … Read More