Cleviston Haynes

Bank supervision director

The Caribbean is often saddled with the reputation as an under-regulated offshore banking haven and on the face of it Barbados seems no exception with its more than 50 offshore banks outnumbering its six licensed commercial onshore banks by nearly 10 to one. In fact, IMF reports based on its Article IV consultations with the country have found financial system weaknesses in the high number of financial institutions and assets outside the scope of a single traditional banking regulatory body. H

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María Soledad Ovando

General manager
BancoEstado Microempresas

November 07, 2008

Chilean state bank BancoEstado is the country's largest player in the microcredit and microfinance market through subsidiary BancoEstado Microempresas. Earlier this year, the subsidiary surpassed its 300,000-client goal and BNamericas talked to general m... more

Princess Máxima/María Otero

Advisors of UN Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors
United Nations

October 30, 2008

Despite progress in the area of financial inclusion in Latin America in the past few years, the vast majority of the region's population and micro and small enterprises still lack access to financial products and services. Banks in Latin America - the re... more

• October 24, 2008

  Will Landers

  Manager of BlackRock Latin America Fund (MDLTX)

  BlackRock

• October 17, 2008

  Óscar Cabrera

  Chairman

  BBVA

• October 10, 2008

  Jorge Belmar

  Managing director

  NCR

• October 03, 2008

  Gerardo Piña

  Commercial strategy director

  Banco Deuno

• September 26, 2008

  Raúl Anaya

  Central America and Caribbean head

  Citi

• September 12, 2008

  Ricardo Flores, Sérgio Nazaré

  Government affairs VP, government affairs director

  BB

• September 05, 2008

  Jón Garöar Guömundsson

  Managing director for Asia and Latin America

  Glitnir Bank

• August 29, 2008

  Jeff Wilson

  Latin America and Canada group head of technology management

  MasterCard

• August 22, 2008

  Carlos Raúl Moreno

  General manager

  Banco Continental