P.R’s banking regulator sees ‘no major obstacle’ to Oriental-Scotiabank merger
August 22, 2019
Puerto Rico’s Office of Financial Institutions Commissioner George Joyner said although the deal is pending regulatory approvals, he sees “no major obstacle” for Oriental’s acquisition of Scotiabank de Puerto Rico’s assets to happen. In an ...
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Op-Ed: Banks’ ‘recklessness’ cost insurers $720M
August 21, 2019
Puerto Rico bond insurers this month filed suit against eight well-known investment banks (UBS, Citi, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Securities, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, RBC and Santander) for failing to perform proper diligence on Commonwealth ...
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Moody’s: P.R. and its banks will benefit from federal economic analysis
March 13, 2019
The reason for the positive outlook is that Moody’s believes federal estimates of the island’s Gross Domestic Product “will bolster reforms by the island that should encourage unbanked residents to participate in the banking system, ...
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