Oct 2009 Financial News

• 30Scotia DBG launches Caribbean Income Fund
• 30Access Financial profit doubles
• 29Belize group lists locally. 10,000 shares traded on first day
• 28BCB Holdings - Listing of Shares
• 26Call for more innovative financial products
• 26Return of 'feel good' spending. Consumers more optimistic.
• 26Carib Cement offering discounts to deal with 'mounting inventory'
• 26GraceKennedy/Paymaster copyright case winds down
• 26Barbados economic review to be revealed
• 23Act will dent insider trading
• 23Govt gives CLICO $1.9b
• 23Regional securities regulators needed
• 23Clico flouted rules
• 23GraceKennedy commissions pepper-mash plant
• 23Cement supply guaranteed, import waiver in jeopardy
• 23SVL ready to roll with sports betting
• 22Analyst claims ownership of bill payment system as Paymaster vs Grace trial ends
• 21GKC - Listing of Shares
• 21Stock taking Is it time to buy again?
• 21Central Bank to make timely economic data available
• 21NCB offers $1-b loan facility at 9 per cent
• 21Access fully subscribed within two days
• 18Scotia launches subsidiary offering globalised services
• 18Scotiabank again reduces lending rates
• 16Browne: No plans for Govt to increase shares in RBL
• 16Cement row ratchets up - TCL, Guyana gear for contempt hearings; quarrel emerges over 'conflict'
• 15NIB shares in Republic worth $2.3B
• 15Delisting no big deal
• 15Paymaster exec admits to no copyright discussions
• 14FCIBJ to open new Portmore branch
• 14Scotia opens $500-m, low-cost loan facility
• 14Deposit-taking firms get new reserve ease
• 13RBTT makes borrowing cheaper
• 12Cheaper bank rates coming
• 12Consumer Confidence Index surges new high level
• 12BNB sees 20 per cent drop in profit
• 09Risk system overhaul, expansion at First Global - Growth plans, new group compliance platform spurred by crisis
• 09Audrey Marks wins another round in $1.7 billion battle with Grace
• 09NCB to close five of nine agencies - To redeploy employees
• 08State of CMMB to be revealed today
• 07National Enterprises Limited – Notice of Change of Corporate Secretary
• 07TCL in court action against Guyana govt
• 07Independents want changes to financial intelligence bill
• 07Senator: FIU Bill needs amendments
• 07First Global fills five posts after trading breach
• 07Jamaica's fiscal deficit could reach 20% of GDP
• 07New asset purchase - But no sale yet for Columbus - Third Caribbean investment fund under negotiation
• 07Cement, CET and chicken to figure in COTED meeting
• 07Anbell to spin off media business - Two IPOs likely for the junior market
• 06Joseph: Govt targeting 'dirty $$'
• 06'Shearer' struggles - Small-business owners reject $5,000 note
• 05Bharath takes RBTT helm
• 05Caribbean Exchange Network explained
• 02Delisting of Valpark Shopping Plaza Limited
• 02Delisting of Furness Trinidad Limited
• 02GraceKennedy Limited Press Release – First Global Bank Limited – Injection of Capital
• 02CL Financial faces US$188m margin call - Trustee demands action on depleting US$240m bond account