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  • Some of the participants on the final day of the Roundtable Discussion called 'Innovative Approaches to Catalyse the Delivery of Meso-Level Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance'.
    March 5, 2025

    BANGO and CPDC host Roundtable on Climate Risk Financing

  • Khary Sharpe, Founder of HeadOffice, captivated the judges with his vision of a "super app" designed to simplify accounting and business operations. 
    January 27, 2025

    HeadOffice Wins FiX25 Startup Pitch

  • Team CIBC Caribbean: Quinn Weekes (left) Sr. Manager, Client & Product Profitability Strategy, and main presenter at the event with Trevor Wood, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Data and Innovation, and Stephan Barrow, Senior Data Scientist fielding questions after the main presentation.
    August 1, 2024

    CIBC Caribbean Bank Hosts “Ignite Innovation” Data Science & AI Webinar

  • Representatives from the Caribbean, including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States, participated in the seminar. The event aimed to enhance regional cooperation and build capacity in cybersecurity to safeguard critical infrastructure.
    April 23, 2024

    USA & Regional Security System Host Cybersecurity Seminar for Caribbean Nations

  • The highly accomplished executives shared intriguing stories of their internal stakeholder engagement strategies. Sealy shared her experience as a communications manager in a large organization, discussing the various challenges and successes she faced in internal communications. She also highlighted the importance of alignment in internal communications and cited examples from her experience working in 20 markets with more than 1500 employees.
    April 18, 2024

    IABC Barbados focuses on Internal Communications

  • April 5, 2024

    Movie actors, film producers join international media executives for a 5-day forum in Barbados: April 15th-19th

  • Diaz further expressed that Mastercard has a strong focus on helping fintechs support and promote further financial inclusion. She said that many industry players are developing solutions using Mastercard technologies “to leverage from it and to create solutions to unshackle the unbanked population.” 
    February 2, 2024

    Fintech Helping Boost the Payment Industry

  • (Fourth from left) Jarryon Paul, Founder and CEO of Sunshine Exchange, celebrating his win with the judges.
    January 31, 2024

    Sunshine Exchange Announced Winner of FiX24 Startup Pitch

  • Meanwhile, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Fintech Islands, Curt Persaud, said they hope to build on the momentum from the previous conference, which saw several partnerships, agreements and startups formed. This year, ten early-stage Caribbean fintech start-ups pitched their ideas for a chance to win a cash award of US$10,000.
    January 28, 2024

    Hundreds Gather for FiX24

  • Head of Programme, World Food Programme (WFP) Multi-Country Caribbean Office, Sarah Bailey, is among the FiX24 speakers who will engage delegates on the topic during the conference, which runs from January 24-26, 2024. According to Bailey, fintech is key to expanding and reshaping the borders of financial inclusion to serve those persons who are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in the Caribbean.
    January 19, 2024

    Paving the Way for Sustainable Finance

  • Experts for these sessions include Mastercard's Director of Caribbean Fintech Digital Partnerships, Icelsa Diaz; First Atlantic Commerce CEO, Christopher Burns; CellPay Corporation Chairwoman, Pascale Elie; TT RideShare Executive Chairman, Dwight Housend; Girasol Founder and CEO, Marwan Dean Rozier; Payce Digital CEO, Alison Browne-Ellis; Interledger Foundation Executive Director, Briana Marbury; the Location-Based Marketing Association's Founder and Chairman Asif Khan; and ZeePay's Barbados Country Manager, Felicity Luktuka Jaforktuk.
    January 14, 2024

    Take a Deep Dive into the Future of Payments and Commerce at FiX24

  • Levelling the playing field and bringing greater financial education to the region are among some of the motivators for FiX. According to the co-founder and CEO of Fintech Islands, Allison Hunte, FiX is working toward helping individuals and businesses in the Caribbean better understand and leverage fintech. The conference aims to promote financial inclusion, enabling more people to access financial services and businesses to expand their operations. This will ultimately lead to greater transparency in financial transactions and significant growth and development in the region. 
    January 9, 2024

    Fintech Islands Experience (FiX) Leading the Region’s Charge in Financial Technology