Apr 2015 Financial News

• 30Caribbean economic growth expected to improve – IMF
• 30Bermuda’s finance minister puts brave face on S&P downgrade
• 30One Caribbean Media Limited - Listing of Shares
• 30National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited - Trading in Shares (Amendment)
• 30Sagicor Financial Corporation - Notice to Shareholders
• 30National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited - Trading in Shares
• 30Guardian Holdings Limited – Notice to Shareholders
• 29Listing of Fortress Caribbean Property Funds
• 29Unilever Caribbean Limited – Notice to Shareholders
• 29Sagicor Financial Corporation Shareholder Briefing on Thursday 30 April, 2015
• 28TCL reports $515 million revenue
• 27JMMB Group Limited - Trading in Shares
• 27Carib declares war on beer competitors
• 27Sagicor relocates Tobago office
• 27NCB To Distribute One-Third Of Quarterly Profit As Dividend
• 27NCB makes record $3.2 billion in profit
• 27Cemex Executive To Run Caribbean Cement
• 27BOJ Rate But Might Not Mean Cheaper Loans, Says JBA President
• 27Jamaica strengthens trading ties with Costa Rica
• 27Printing of money a concern (Barbados)
• 27Restoring fiscal order vital (Barbados)
• 27Banks must increase lending to small businesses (Barbados)
• 27Non-performing loans declining, but still a problem (Barbados)
• 27ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT: Effect of adjusted interest rates to be seen (Barbados)
• 27Growth in a depressed market (Barbados)
• 27Liberalisation a positive move (Barbados)
• 27No failure – Sinckler stays confident on economic recovery (Barbados)
• 27Trinidad Cement Limited – Changes to Executive Management
• 24RBC economist: TT economy maybe shrunk
• 24Lack of foreign $$ continues to affect businesses in 2015
• 24GK Foods Chasing 20% Sales Growth In US
• 24Byles: Low Private Sector Credit Contributing To Slow Growth
• 24J'can firms and consumers increasingly optimistic about economy
• 24Ansa Merchant Bank Limited - Notice to Shareholders
• 23Delisting of Bond - TT$1,017.978 Million Government of Trinidad and Tobago 8.00% 27.04.2014
• 23TCL - Trading in Shares
• 23Dr Rolph Balgobin named new TTMA President
• 23Bharath tells TTMA: US$5bn hoarded in bank accounts
• 23New First Citizens CEO Karen Darbasie: Gender no criteria for job selection
• 23Karen takes charge at First Citizens
• 23Bank confirms rate cuts (Barbados)
• 23CEO CONFIDENT IN ECONOMY (Barbados)
• 22Republic $1b bond issue gets high rating. The RBL Group has maintained comfortable capitalisation levels
• 22GK set to earn half its revenues overseas
• 22GraceKennedy To Introduce Money Transfer By Telephone
• 22Sources: Carib Cement Boss To Be Replaced
• 22Bank Of Jamaica Readies For Inflation Targeting
• 22Slight growth this year (Barbados)
• 20JMMB rolling out four unit trust products
• 20Grace USA targets US$130m in sales to break even
• 20First Citizens in US$80.7m partnership with Phoenix Park
• 20CIBC to soon reveal new rates
• 17MASSY - Notice of Material Change
• 17JMMB Reconfigures New Kingston Banking Operations
• 17Jamaica growth exceeds Latin American average — IMF data. Nation should grow by 1.7% in 2015
• 17World Bank says remittances growth will slow down in 2015
• 17Massy Holdings Limited - Notice of Material Change
• 16Guardian Holdings Limited - Notice to Shareholders
• 16Bank Of Jamaica Cuts Interest Rate
• 16FCB head sees good tidings for TT
• 16TTSE sees bright 2015
• 16TT can be proud of DME
• 16T&T facing oil price challenges–Howai
• 16Grenada’s creditors agree to restructure US$262 Million of Bonds
• 16New report says IMF programme crushing Jamaica’s economy
• 15JMMB nears end of restructuring, relists on three exchanges
• 15OCM – Notice of Material Change
• 14JMMB Group publicly listed on TTSE
• 14Howai: Mergers good for T&T economy
• 14Sod turned for RBL’s South Park branch
• 13JMMBGL - Appointment of Directors
• 13GML in hi-tech, ‘high-energy’ election launch
• 13US$489m for NGC. Revenue from sale of methanol and DME
• 13Energy start-up sees prospects in lease financing, launches IPO
• 13Grenada agrees to restructure debt
• 10Tobacco black market a growing concern for T&T
• 10NCB invests in enhanced remote surveillance
• 10GraceKennedy to invest $215m in renewable energy
• 10Delisting of Jamaica Money Market Brokers Limited (JMMB) and Listing of JMMB Group Limited (JMMBGL)
• 09NCBJ - Trading in Shares
• 08TCL - Listing of Shares
• 08Profit before tax of $655.1m for Witco
• 08Central Bank: Consumers still spending
• 08Lower growth Eclac: Negative effect of falling oil prices
• 08Bear market no longer — JSE recovers in first quarter 2015
• 08Banks to set own rates (Barbados)
• 08MASSY - Trading in Shares
• 07Central Bank to stop setting minimum savings rate (Barbados)
• 07RBL - Trading in Shares
• 07New First Citizens CEO starts today
• 07$153m after-tax profit for Angostura
• 07Sagicor earnings up by US$4.1m
• 07Brooks retires from ANSA McAL
• 02TCL – Record date for Distribution of Annual Report
• 02TCL – Results of the Rights Issues
• 02$262.2m in earnings for ANSA Merchant Bank
• 02RBL to buy RBC Suriname for US$39.8m
• 02TCL now looking to refinance US$280 mn
• 02AMCL – Material Change
• 02RBL - Signing of Purchase and Sales Agreement with RBC Financial (Caribbean)
• 01New energy start-up to raise $450m on JSE
• 01JMMB - Suspension of Trading
• 01Republic Bank Limited to Acquire RBC Royal Bank (Suriname) N.V.
• 01TCL - Execution of Debt Restructuring Agreements