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The Bank of Jamaica, established by the Bank of Jamaica Law (1960), began operations in May 1961, terminating the Currency Board System which had been in existence from 1939. The establishment of the Central Bank was in recognition of the need for an appropriately regulated financial structure to encourage the development process, particularly ...
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Wilson served briefly, and was succeeded in 1947 by Austin E. McClaren. Membership was first restricted to GSB clerks, excluding managers and executives of the bank and leading to a low influx of capital and a high demand for loans. Despite this, in 1950 GSB Clerks was the first credit union to accumulate £1,000 in deposits.
NCB Group Limited was listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange in 1986. [4] Between 1986 and 1991, the Government of Jamaica divested 61% of its shares in NCB Group Limited, and sold the remaining 39% to Jamaica M&N Investments Limited (a joint venture of the Jamaica Mutual Life Assurance Society and Jamaica National Building Society) in 1992. [4]
The Jamaica Accords focus was to abolishment of the Gold Standard that the Bretton Woods System had previously established. [9] In order to create a more stable international monetary system, the Jamaica Accords served to create a more versatile foreign exchange rate that focused on a floating foreign exchange rate . [ 10 ]
A susu or sou-sou or osusu or asue (also known as a merry-go-round, [1] Partner, or Pawdna in Jamaica; [2] sol in Haiti;, [3] san in Dominican Republic, [4] and Njangi in Cameroon [5]) is a form of rotating savings and credit association, a type of informal savings club arrangement between a small group of people who take turns by throwing hand as the partners call it.
The Jamaica Accords were a set of international agreements that ratified the end of the Bretton Woods monetary system. [1] They took the form of recommendations to change the "articles of agreement" that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded upon. [ 2 ]
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