PM advocates for greater cooperation between US, C'bean banks

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley beleives greater cooperation between American and Caribbean banks will benefit business for both regions.

Dr Rowley made the call while speaking at the opening of the Roundtable Dicussion on De-Risking and Correspondent Banking hekd at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre in Bridgetown, Barbados.

The Prime Minister said: "We believe that there is great progress to be made from doing business with us and the facts will support that not the fiction, not the discrimination, not the disrespect. It is possible that Caribbean banks can become and we must become an integral part of the American banking system and by extension the world global banking system"

The event is being co-chaired by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley and Congresswoman Maxine Waters ( D-CA), Chairwoman of the US House Committee on Financial Services.

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Chairwoman Waters is being accompanied by US Representative for Ohio's 3rd Congressional District, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, US Reprsentative for Colorado 7th Congressional District, Congressman Ed Perlmutter, US Representative for US Vrigin Islands , At-Large, Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, US Representative for Texas, 29th Congressional District, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia and US Representative for Louisiana, 2nd Congressional District, Congressman Troy A Carter.