Innovative and alternative finance took centre stage last Thursday evening at the ATL Audi Showroom on Oxford Road in New Kingston as the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) invited Jamaica's business class to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship and new models of investment. A collaborative effort of the DBJ's Boosting Innovation, Growth and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (BIGEE) programme and the Caribbean Alternative Investments Association (CARAIA), the corporate mingle, dubbed Cocktails and Conversations, featured an update from CARAIA Chairman Berisford Grey on the growth of alternative finance in the region. Additionally, CARAIA…
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DBJ Private Capital Funds Training for Investors on September 20-21, from 8am to 12:30pm
September 12, 2022
In collaboration with the Caribbean Alternative Investment Association (CARAIA), the DBJ, through its World Bank-funded, Access to Finance Project, will host a two-day training session targeted at private capital investors.
The aim of the training is to sensitize local investors and LPs on issues relating to fund performance assessments and metrics, monitoring and reporting requirements, the roles and responsibilities of the key management personnel and also zone in on some of the crucial due diligence and risk management issues to take into consideration, when managing a private capital portfolio.
The course will be…
NCB Financial outlook positive despite war
May 12, 2022
Buoyed by a fourfold growth in profit for the March quarter, NCB Financial Group Limited has a favourable outlook on the periods ahead, despite the global uncertainties sparked by the Russia-Ukraine war.
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20220511/ncb-financial-outlook-positive-despite-war