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“One of the strategic goals of the Belize Bank for quite a while has been to expand our regional operation and to become a regional banking franchise. So it has a number of years now in which we have been looking at acquisitions across the Caribbean. Over the last thirteen months, the opportunity was presented to us when Scotiabank was deciding to leave the jurisdiction and we engaged in discussions with Scotiabank over the past thirteen months. These negotiations were on again, off again negotiations and finally they consummated in us signing a deal on Friday.”
A message sent to customers on the acquisition says that all current Scotia Bank employees will remain with the company and continue to serve customers in Belize.
Written on March 30, 2021 | Posted in Featured,People & Places,Social Issues | Comments Off
While the country has been documenting unaccompanied minors since 2016, it is primarily collecting data on Central Americans ending up in Belize. Those cases came to a halt in 2020 [.]