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21 Apr
2021
Remarks By Governor John Rolle at The 2021 Bahamas International Financial Services Strategy Summit

Remarks By Governor John Rolle at The 2021 Bahamas International Financial Services Strategy Summit

26 Mar
2021
Consumer-Centric Aspects of the Proposed Regulations for the Bahamian Digital Currency

Consumer-Centric Aspects of the
Proposed Regulations for the Bahamian Digital Currency

25 Mar
2021
Upcoming Tender For Bahamas Government Treasury Bills

Upcoming Tender For Bahamas Government Treasury Bills

15 Mar
2021
The Central Bank of The Bahamas Summer Employment Programme 2021

The Central Bank of The Bahamas Summer Employment Programme 2021

22 Feb
2021
Central Bank Announces the T. Baswell Donaldson Memorial Lecture & Research Prize (2021)

Competition Rules

05 Feb
2021
Anti-Money Laundering Administrative Monetary Penalties Guidance Notice

Anti-Money Laundering Administrative Monetary Penalties Guidance Notice

31 Dec
2020
Public Update on The Bahamas Digital Currency Rollout

The Central Bank of The Bahamas advises that public access to The Bahamas’ digital currency is projected to increase during the first quarter of 2021, as financial institutions continue to integrate the Sand Dollar into...

29 Oct
2020
Public Traffic Notice

TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE TO THROUGH TRAFFIC & PEDESTRIANS
The Central Bank of The Bahamas is scheduled to, imminently, commence demolition works at the old Post Office and Royal Victoria Gardens sites. To facilitate...

23 Oct
2020
Financial Literacy Competition

Financial Literacy Video-Essay Competition

14 Oct
2020
PUBLIC TRAFFIC NOTICE - TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE TO THROUGH TRAFFIC & PEDESTRIANS

PUBLIC TRAFFIC NOTICE - TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE TO THROUGH TRAFFIC & PEDESTRIANS

07 Oct
2020
OVERVIEW OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT LEGISLATION – (Synopsis of CBB Legislation – Crisis Management Framework document)

The Crisis Management Legislative Framework is inclusive of the Central Bank of The Bahamas Act 2020, the Banks and Trust Companies Regulation Act 2020, and the Protection of Depositors (Amendment) Act, 2020.

07 Oct
2020
OVERVIEW OF PAYMENT SYSTEMS LEGISLATION – (Synopsis of CBB Legislation – Payments document)

The following pieces of legislation, together with the Central Bank of The Bahamas Act, 2020, provide the legal framework for the Central Bank’s supervision of payment, clearing or settlement system systems in The Bahama...

07 Oct
2020
Overview THE BAHAMAS CO-OPERATIVE CREDIT UNIONS ACT, 2015 &THE BAHAMAS CO-OPERATIVE CREDIT UNIONS REGULATIONS, 2015 (Synopsis of CBB Legislation – Credit Unions)

In June 2015, the Central Bank of The Bahamas (“the Central Bank”) assumed regulatory and supervisory responsibility for co-operative credit unions (“credit unions”), with the enactment of the principal governing legisla...

07 Oct
2020
Overview of CREDIT REPORTING ACT, 2018 & CREDIT REPORTING REGULATIONS, 2019 (Synopsis of CBB Legislation – Credit Reporting)

The Credit Reporting Act, 2018 and the Credit Reporting Regulations, 2019 (“the legislation”), provide the legal framework which supports the establishment of a national credit reporting system in The Bahamas. The Act pr...

06 Oct
2020
OVERVIEW OF ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING (AML) COUNTERING FINANCING OF TERRORISM (CFT) & COUNTERING PROLIFERATION FINANCING (CPF) LEGISLATION

Synopsis of CBB Legislation - AML-CFT