{"id":124870,"date":"2021-03-05T08:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=124870"},"modified":"2021-03-05T08:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:15:54","slug":"small-states-diplomacy-pays-dividends-on-de-risking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/small-states-diplomacy-pays-dividends-on-de-risking\/","title":{"rendered":"Small states diplomacy pays dividends on \u2018de-risking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders\u00a0<\/b><\/p>

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(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

It was an odd law into which to place it, but new and welcome directives on \u2018de-risking\u2019, which has plagued Caribbean countries, has become law in the United States.<\/p>

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The law in which the helpful directives are embedded is the \u2018\u2018William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021\u2019\u2019 (NDAA).\u00a0\u00a0It was vetoed by former President Donald Trump and it should, at that point, have died. But for the first time in Trump\u2019s presidency, the Congress mustered the two-thirds majority needed to overturn his veto.<\/p>

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Trump\u2019s veto had nothing to do with \u2018de-risking\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0It was directed mainly at the bill\u2019s removal of the names from military facilities of Confederate officers.\u00a0\u00a0A significant number of Trump\u2019s supporters come from the former confederate states.<\/p>\n

Section 6215 of the NDAA, which deals with Financial Services De-Risking, is the result of painstaking work by the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, and his instructions to me, as Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States, to leave no stone unturned in engaging the U.S. Congress and particularly the House Banking Committee, to draw attention to the harmful \u2013 if unintended – consequences of de-risking for the Caribbean\u2019s banking system.\u00a0\u00a0Browne is the lead CARICOM head of government for financial services.<\/p>

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The Chairperson of the Committee is the formidable Maxine Waters, representative in the House for California\u2019s 43rd<\/sup>\u00a0district.\u00a0\u00a0Throughout the latter half of 2019, she was bombarded by approaches from Antigua and Barbuda in written and personal presentations, explaining why de-risking by U.S. global banks was depriving Caribbean banks of crucial correspondent banking relations, and threatening to cut-off the region from participation in the global trading and financial system.<\/p>\n

In early 2019, banks in some CARICOM countries had lost all their correspondent banks, and institutions in other states were tenuously holding on to only one.\u00a0\u00a0All this had arisen because of U.S. regulatory directives to its banks concerning money laundering, financing of terrorism and the mythical but popular view that Caribbean countries were \u2018tax -havens\u2019 and their banks were awash with dirty money.<\/p>

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The facts told a different story.\u00a0\u00a0In the 10 years up to 2019, US$26 billion has been imposed worldwide as fines for non-compliance with money laundering, but not one bank was located in the Caribbean.<\/p>

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Little attention was paid to the reality that all the banks in CARICOM countries and all their assets and transactions do not total 5 per cent of the assets and transactions in the world.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, in the unlikely event that all 5 per cent of financial transactions are dirty in some form or another, it stands to reason that the countries and banks, responsible for the remaining 95 per cent of assets and transactions were large tax havens and purveyors of illegal financial services.<\/p>\n

Changing this image of the Caribbean, laying out the evidence, and making solid arguments were all necessary, particularly for a U.S. Congress confronted with a multitude of domestic and global issues on an hourly basis.\u00a0\u00a0In Maxine Waters, the Caribbean region found a tough but decisive person, sceptical but willing to listen and to examine the evidence.<\/p>\n

The Caribbean effort that was spearheaded in Washington by Antigua and Barbuda strongly supported by Belize and St Lucia, culminated in a Congressional Round Table in November 2019, chaired by Waters and attended by Gaston Browne, St Lucia Prime Minister Allen Chastenet, and Ministers from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and Jamaica. Waters had invited to the meeting senior representatives of major U.S. banks as well as other members of the House Finance Committee.\u00a0\u00a0A full and frank discussion ensued.<\/p>\n

At the end of it, Waters and her Congressional colleagues promised action.\u00a0\u00a0Deal making in the U.S. Congress is more art than science.\u00a0\u00a0It results in matters inserted in a law where it may seem to have no relevance.\u00a0\u00a0But that is the trade for support that occurs. In the result, the promised action was delivered in the NDAA.<\/p>\n

Among the matters that the law stipulates as guidelines are: providing vital humanitarian and development assistance and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0protecting the integrity of the international financial system are complementary goals; access issues are a concern for other underserved individuals and entities such as those sending remittances from the United States to their families overseas and certain domestic and overseas jurisdictions that have experienced curtailed access to cross-border financial services due, in part, to de-risking; the financial exclusion caused by de-risking can ultimately drive money into less transparent, shadow channels through the carrying of cash or use of unlicensed or unregistered money service remitters, thus reducing transparency and traceability, which are\u00a0\u00a0critical for financial integrity, and can increase the risk of\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0money falling into the wrong hands; and anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, and sanctions policies must ensure that the policies do not unduly hinder or delay legitimate access to the international financial system for underserved individuals, entities, and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0geographic area.<\/p>\n

Those were the very points which were put forward by the representatives of small Caribbean states who can be pleased that one of the law\u2019s fundamental directives is that \u201cpolicies that encourage financial inclusion must remain a priority\u201d.<\/p>\n

The NDAA is a small but significant step by the U.S. Congress and especially by the House Banking Committee, led by Congresswoman Maxine Waters.\u00a0\u00a0It was a big leap for small Caribbean countries and a triumph for their diligence and diplomacy.<\/p>\n

Much work remains to be done but an important pathway to rectifying and balancing de-risking has been opened. Amid the ravages of COVID-19, it is welcome good news.<\/p>\n

Responses and previous commentaries:\u00a0<\/i>www.sirronaldsanders.com<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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