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Customer Notice – Temporary Service Disruption

We’re currently experiencing a technical issue affecting some payment functions within our Online Banking and Business Online platforms. Our teams are actively working to resolve this as quickly as possible.…

Advisory

Customer Notice – Temporary Service Downtime

Please be advised that we will be conducting scheduled system upgrades from 9:00 p.m. on Friday, March 6 to 5:00 a.m. on Monday, March 9, 2026. During this period, the…

Citizenship by Investment: Importance to the Caribbean

Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program is defined by the World Citizenship Report as, “the process that legally grants individuals and in some cases, their families, a second citizenship through investments…

Commentary

Inflation Expectation For The Remainder Of 2022

Rising inflationary pressures have been a challenge for many governments and central banks around the world.  Since 2021, global prices have risen faster and more persistently than expected, driven by…

Commentary

Global Macro Outlook: Weaker Conditions to Persist

In its latest World Economic Outlook for October 2022, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its world growth forecast for 2023. It left the 2022 growth forecast unchanged at 3.2%,…

Commentary

Short Selling

For most investors, the primary objective of investing in a stock is to make a profit and this is accomplished by taking a “long” position, which means buying and owning…

Commentary

Barbados’ ReBERT

Barbados has expressed interest in another economic program supported by the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) three-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) aimed at maintaining and strengthening macroeconomic stability and to continue…

Commentary

Important Advisory

Dear First Citizens Customers, Please be advised that as part of the Retrospective Due Diligence requirements as outlined by the  Central Bank of Barbados in conjunction with the Anti-Money Laundering…

Advisory