1st National Bank (Saint Lucia) Ltd. breaks new ground once more with its inaugural Investor Day Forum, to offer investors and customers strategic insights on its future roadmap covering the past, present and future.
The forum, which continues the bank’s ongoing outreach to customers and shareholders, management and staff, will address topics such as ‘Ease of Doing Business within the Banking Space’, ‘De-Risking and Corresponding Banking Relationships’, ‘ECCB Regulations’ and ‘Saint Lucia Government Regulations’.
Guest speaker at the bank’s inaugural Investors Forum will be the Director General of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Dr Didacus Jules, whose theme will be: “From a Penny Bank to a Billion Dollar Institution”
The forum will be held under the auspices of the Stanley French Educational Forum and members of 1st National Bank’s Executive team will also speak on and answer questions on the sub-themes’ investors will have to be attuned to in these changing times on the regional and global financial and economic markets.
The Investors Forum will be held Saturday November 4, 2023 at the Administrative Financial Center at Pointe Seraphine, from 9am to 1pm – and will also be Streamed ‘Live’.
The Stanley French Educational Forum, named after a national distinguished shareholder, has over many years sponsored and presented educational for 1st National Bank customers and staff.
It also works with appropriate local educational institutions by sponsoring lectures and presentations by distinguished professional and experts in various fields, alongside the bank’s ongoing scholarship programme benefitting staff and students.
1st National Bank is Saint Lucia’s first and only indigenous national bank and has diligently served the island and its customers for 85 years, first as the Saint Lucia Cooperative Bank Ltd., through World War II and the 1948 Castries Fire, from Statehood in 1967 to Independence in 1979.
For the past 44 years since Saint Lucia severed the colonial relationship, 1st National Bank has grown from strength to strength, leaving its indelible mark on the growth of the local banking community by constantly upgrading and expanding its services island-wide.
In the past year, 1st National Bank has purchased the local assets of two competing banks (Royal Bank of Canada and RBTT Bank) and has also secured its first overseas expansion into the neighbouring Saint Vincent & The Grenadines (SVG) market.
The bank has also shown positive growth in recent years, now joining the prestigious realm of successfully-run Eastern Caribbean billion-dollar banking institutions.