The most important regulatory change under way for Trinidad and Tobago’s banking sector is the adoption of Basel II financial reporting standards. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – a division of the Bank of International Settlements, a multilateral financial institution supported by central banks from around the globe – is tasked...
Local capital market investors have long been painted with a broad brush and stereotyped as being conservative and risk averse. Although a segment of the market does tend to have a low risk tolerance and while the market-wide appetite for volatility may be lower than the global average, generalising market participants thwarts the development...
Vibrant capital markets generally rely on two critical ingredients: a comprehensive regulatory framework and a wide investor base. The Trinidad and Tobago Securities Exchange Commission, in conjunction with market participants, has made considerable strides in addressing the first of these elements over the past two decades, though certain...
Investors in the local capital market generally tend to remain silent through years, and sometimes decades, of underperformance, poor governance and a lack of transparency from their investee companies. Market participants in frontier economies such as Trinidad and Tobago typically lack the sophistication of their peers in developed countries...
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