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Instituto de Banca y Comercio was founded by Fidel Alonso-Valls in 1974 in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, where it only had two classrooms and 15 students. Initially, it was an institution specialized in preparing tellers for the banking industry in Puerto Rico. Hence its original name, International Banking School.
Compañía de Comercio y Exportación: CCE: Industrial development: Tourism Company: Tourism: Compañía de Turismo: Turismo: Travel and leisure: Training and Work Enterprises Corporation: PRTWEC: Corporación de Empresas de Adiestramiento y Trabajo: CEAT: Education: University of Puerto Rico: UPR: Universidad de Puerto Rico: UPR: Education
The Puerto Rico Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development (Spanish: Oficina para el Desarrollo Socioeconómico y Comunitario de Puerto Rico (ODSEC)) is a government agency of Puerto Rico that manages projects to improve and develop "Special Communities of Puerto Rico", (Spanish: Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico). The agency works ...
1928: First bank in Puerto Rico to offer personal loans without collateral. 1930: Popular acquired the Banco Comercial de Puerto Rico. This bank had begun in 1857 as Banco Español de Puerto Rico and changed its name to Banco de Puerto Rico in 1900. Then in 1913 it changed its name to Banco Comercial de Puerto Rico.
A joint venture between Quanta Services (USA) and ATCO (Canada), LUMA was created to manage Puerto Rico’s power grid. [1] [2] The contract under which LUMA Energy operates the power grid in Puerto Rico was signed after a bid in 2020. [7] In the bid, five different companies participated and only four submitted business proposals. [2]
Although Puerto Rico was part of Spain, a country with associations of lawyers as early as the 16th century, it was not until May 8, 1840, that the Royal Court of Puerto Rico issued an order authorizing the establishment of a Bar Association there. [1] There were at the time 22 lawyers practicing in Puerto Rico.
The Gallery at Gran Caribe was Puerto Rico's 20th largest shopping center, as reported in the Caribbean Business White Pages 2004 directory which was the investment company's first incursion into the local market. Thor Equities acquired the mall, originally called Centro Gran Caribe, in May 2004 from Decemcor for $61.5 million.
Several days before the official announcement, rumours had been going around as to the opening of a Costco store in Aguadilla. [2] On February 8, 2021, through his social media accounts, newly inaugurated Aguadillan mayor, Julio Roldán Concepción, announced "after 5 years of waiting [,] as part of the efforts of [his] administration" he had given the "green light" to the project.