{"id":74673,"date":"2019-10-24T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T21:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=74673"},"modified":"2019-10-24T17:41:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T21:41:51","slug":"commentary-business-community-stands-to-lose-from-de-risking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-business-community-stands-to-lose-from-de-risking\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Business Community Stands To Lose From De-Risking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The business community in the Caribbean \u2013 both foreign and local \u2013 has made no collective statement and taken no joint position on the process of de-risking and the withdrawal of correspondent banking relations (CBRs) with which all Caribbean countries have been plagued since 2015.<\/p>\n

It seems that the overarching perception is that de-risking and the loss of CBRs is something related to financial institutions and is remote from the lives of the Caribbean\u2019s peoples and the business communities.\u00a0\u00a0Nothing can be further from reality.<\/p>

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The de-risking and withdrawal of CBRs that have beset the region are directly related to the conduct of any business that imports or exports goods and services from the rest of the world, particularly North America and Europe with which the region trades the most.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Financial institutions, particularly banks, are only conduits through which businesses and individuals conduct business outside of the countries in which they are based.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When financial institutions lose CBRs because of de-risking, businesses and individuals are deprived of the means to conduct overseas transactions.<\/p>

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No business is immune from the consequences of local banks losing CBRs.\u00a0\u00a0If all the banks in a country lose CBRs, every business that buys or sells goods and services from overseas will grind to a halt.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, there is very good reason for all businesses to put this matter high on their agenda for discussion.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Every Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturers Association and Export agency in every Caribbean country should seek meetings with their banks to understand the implications of continued de-risking and loss of CBRs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And they should contribute to the thinking and financing of how the issues could be resolved.<\/p>\n

Foreign companies operating in the Caribbean, particularly those whose domiciles are in North America and Europe, have a special responsibility to themselves to become active in this matter.\u00a0\u00a0To transfer their profits and dividends to their overseas headquarters, their local banks must have CBRs. Further, to import material for their operations, CBRs are imperative.\u00a0\u00a0It is in the interest of these foreign companies, including the airlines, the cruise ship lines, oil companies and hotels, not to sit back but to become actively involved in pointing out to governments in their home countries the dangers posed by the loss of CBRs.<\/p>

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Local businesses \u2013 of all kinds \u2013 also require banks to have CBRs to purchase anything from overseas, including clothing, footwear, construction material, motor vehicles, spares and parts, and most importantly, food.<\/p>\n

The consequence of businesses not being able to import or export on the lives of people is obvious.\u00a0\u00a0There would be a scarcity of everything, until availability dries-up, severely affecting the quality of life enjoyed even by the most well-off in Caribbean societies.<\/p>

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Eventually, as businesses collapse, jobs will be lost, poverty will increase, government will lose sources of revenue, social services will come to an end.<\/p>

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All of this may sound alarmist.\u00a0\u00a0It is.\u00a0\u00a0But, it is not unnecessarily alarmist.\u00a0\u00a0Businesses – large and small, local and foreign – and the people of the Caribbean must understand that de-risking and loss of CBRs materially affect them.\u00a0\u00a0This is not a matter for financial institutions and Central Banks alone.<\/p>\n

I have explained this issue in such granular terms because of the trend \u2013 even in official documents \u2013 of characterising this problem as a threat to financial institutions in isolation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The fact is that the dagger is really pointed at the societies of every Caribbean country; banks are the point of entry into the body of each Caribbean country.<\/p>\n

It is time that education and information about the perils of de-risking and loss of correspondent banking relations be widely disseminated.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is past time for the business communities in the Caribbean to appreciate that it is their operations and livelihoods that are at stake, and, in that context, to become more involved in addressing the problem.<\/p>\n

Fifty-five banks in 12 Caribbean countries have lost CBRs over the last three years.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In some countries, CBRs available to many banks have been reduced to one.\u00a0\u00a0To continue to provide businesses and the public with international services, banks have had to seek CBR arrangements as far away as Turkey and Serbia.\u00a0\u00a0Costs have risen as a result, and, in any event these arrangements, while welcome, are tenuous.\u00a0\u00a0The International Monetary Fund has observed that the loss of CBRs pose \u201ca clear and present danger\u201d to the region.<\/p>\n

Recently, Scott B. MacDonald, the Chief Economist at Smith\u2019s Research & Gradings, a U.S. financial credit grading company, concluded in a report that \u201cthe new status quo is one defined by tenuous linkages to the global financial system, which can leave trade, finance and tourism at risk of being strangled\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That is not a prospect that any single person or business in the Caribbean can afford.\u00a0\u00a0Everything must be done to prevent it.<\/p>\n

Much has been done already.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Governments have enacted legislation consistent with the rules set by the Financial Action Task Force on anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They have also established machinery for enforcement of these rules through investigation and prosecution. Banks are being made to comply by regulatory bodies and Central Banks.\u00a0\u00a0All this is necessary to persuade correspondent banks in North America and Europe that there is minimal risk in providing CBR to respondent banks in the region.<\/p>\n

However, compliance with the rules is not enough.\u00a0\u00a0Correspondent banks in North America and Europe are also concerned about the huge penalties they might have to pay if any infringement of the law occurs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They believe that the relatively small amount of money they earn from individual Caribbean banks is not worth the risk.\u00a0\u00a0That, in large measure, is why they are withdrawing CBRs.<\/p>\n

For this reason, Caribbean banks should create one or two adequately capitalized entities to act as their collective agent with correspondent banks.\u00a0\u00a0In this case, it is truly \u2018unite or perish\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And, the broader business community should join in.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s in their interest.<\/p>\n

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