A Business Symposium will be held later today, as part of activities to commemorate Financial Information Month. The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in collaboration with its Financial Information Month (FIM) partners will host the Business Symposium at the NIS Conference Facility. Topics to be addressed include Preparing for Uncertainty – Financial Tools to Help protect… Continue Reading →
St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be part of a regional media briefing which will be held this week, to provide an update on the Digital EC Currency, DXCD Pilot Project, being implemented by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, ECCB. The ECCB will host the Briefing this Thursday October 10th and it is also intended… Continue Reading →
Vincentians and other citizens in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union ECCU, have been given an update on plans by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, the ECCB, to issue the World’s first Blockchain-based Digital Currency. The ECCB has signed a contract with the Barbados-based Fintech Company Bitt Inc, to conduct a blockchain-issued Central Bank Digital Currency… Continue Reading →
Vincentians have been assured that the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, ECCB will be taking steps to ensure that the new Polymer Bank Notes which will soon be in circulation, do not have an adverse effect on the natural environment. This assurance was given Director of the Currency Management Department of the ECCB, Rosbert Humphrey. Mr…. Continue Reading →
Activities to mark Financial Information Month, will continue here today with a Financial Fair at Heritage Square in Kingstown. The activity will be hosted by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), in collaboration with the Financial Information Month (FIM) partners in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Financial and other private and public sector institutions will… Continue Reading →
The importance of effective money management has been highlighted here, as Vincentians join with their counterparts in the Eastern Caribbean to observe Financial Information Month. Financial Information Month is a regional financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial education campaign that has been executed in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) since 2002. The Month forms part… Continue Reading →
Issues relating to Banking and Financial Sector Stability in St Vincent and the Grenadines will be discussed here this week. These issues were to be discussed in a presentation by Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, ECCB, Timothy Antoine. The presentation which was slated for tomorrow, Friday June 15th at 5:30 p.m. at the… Continue Reading →