Fair Finance
Watch is a Non-Governmental Organization Focused on the Fairness of the Financial Services
Industries - Banking, Insurance and Securities - to Local Communities, Urban and Rural,
North and (Global) South, including under Human
Rights Laws
FFW researches, documents and advocates around financial firms' activities, and how
they affect local communities. The profiles below are in-process -- For or with more
information, contact us.
Central America and Caribbean (Bahamas and Bermuda)
El Salvador
Regulatory agency:
Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero
7a. Avenida Norte No. 240
Apdo. Postal # 2942
San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
Tel.: (503) 281-2444
Web: www.ssf.gob.sv
BANCOS PRIVADOS - private banks, including Scotiabank
Banco Agricola, S.A.
Presidente: Lic. Rodolfo Roberto Schildknecht
Gerente Gral: Don. Rolando Arturo Larín
Dirección: Blvd. Constitución No.:100, San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
Sitio Web: www.bancoagricola.com
Tel: (503) 267-5000
Fax : (503) 267-5930 Ver Junta Directiva
Banco Cuscatlán de El Salvador, S.A.
Presidente: Ing. José Mauricio Felipe Samayoa Rivas
Director Ejecutivo: Arturo Nuñez Devescovi
Dirección: Edificio Pirámide Cuscatlán Km. 10 carretera a Santa Tecla. Depto. La
Libertad
Sitio Web: www.bancocuscatlan.com
Tel: (503) 228-7777
Fax : (503) 228-5700 Ver Junta Directiva
Banco de Comercio de El Salvador, S.A.
Presidente: Ing. José Gustavo Belismelis Vides
Gerente Gral: Ing. Sergio Concha
Dirección: Centro Financiero BanCo, 25 Avenida Norte y 23 Calle Poniente, San Salvador,
El Salvador, C.A.
Sitio Web: www.banco.com.sv
Tel: (503) 226-4577
Fax : (503) 234-3434 Ver Junta Directiva
Banco Salvadoreño, S.A.
Presidente: Sr. Félix José Simán Jacir
Gerente Gral: Ing. Gerardo José Simán Siri
Dirección: Avenida Olímpica No.3550. San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.Apdo. Postal No.:
(0673)
Sitio Web: www.bancosal.com
Tel: (503) 298-0100
Fax : (503) 298-0102 Ver Junta Directiva
Banco Americano, S.A.
Presidente: Ing. Ronald Antonio Lacayo Arguello
Vicepresid. Ejecutivo: Marlena Posada de Gómez
Dirección: Alameda Roosevelt y 47 Av. Sur, No. 2511, San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
Sitio Web: www.bamericano.com
Tel: (503) 250-8200
Fax : (503) 224-3783 Ver Junta Directiva
Banco Promérica, S.A.
Vicepresidente: Lic. Eduardo Alberto Quevedo Moreno
Gte. de Operaciones: Lic. Luis Enrique Martínez
Dirección: 71 Avenida Sur y Paseo General Escalón No. 3669, Col. Escalón, San Salvador,
El Salvador, C.A.
Tel: (503) 245-3344
Fax : (503) 211-4257 Ver Junta Directiva
Scotiabank El Salvador, S.A.
Presidente: Sr. Luis Tomás Ivandic
Gerente Gral: Sr. Luis Tomás Ivandic
Dirección: Torre Scotiabank, Av. Olímpica No.: 129, San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
Apdo. Postal No.: 824
Sitio Web: www.scotiabank.com.sv
Tel: (503) 245-1400
Fax : (503) 245-3303 Ver Junta Directiva
Banco UNO, S.A.
Presidente: Ing. Albino Román Ortíz
Gerente Gral: Ing. Alfredo Arellano
Dirección: Carretera a Comalapa Km. 9 Edif. Aval.
Sitio Web: www.bancouno.com.sv
Tel: (503) 245-0055
Fax : (503) 238-2323 Ver Junta Directiva
Banco de América Central, S.A.
Presidente: Lic. Raúl Ernesto Cardenal Debayle
Gerente Gral: Ing. Gerardo Armando Ruiz Munguía
Dirección: 55 Av. Sur, entre Alameda Roosevelt y Av. Olímpica Edif. Credomatic, San
Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
Sitio Web: www.bancouno.com.sv
Tel: (503) 298-1855
Fax : (503) 224-4138 Ver Junta Directiva
Banco ProCredit, S.A.
Bahamas
Regulatory contact
Central Bank of the Bahamas
P.O. Box N-4868
Nassau, N.P.
The Bahamas
Tel 1 242 3 222 193
Fax 1 242 3 224 321
Web www.bahamascentralbank.com
E-mail centralbankbah@batelnet.bs
"The Central Bank of the Bahamas is responsible for monitoring the stability and
soundness of the financial system and of individual financial institutions. The bank is
responsible for making recommendations to the Ministry of Finance concerning the issuance,
revocation and adjustment of licenses for banks and trust companies operating in the
Bahamas."
Laws: The Banks and Trust Companies Regulation Act, 2000
http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/bahamasweb/compliance%20commission/sitehome.nsf/Subjects/Compliance+Commission+PDFS/$file/BTCRA.pdf
http://www.bahamascentralbank.com/legal_framework.lasso
And see, http://www.bahamascentralbank.com/legal_notes.lasso
Licensed entities:
http://www.bahamascentralbank.com/publications.lasso?cmd=view&id=15155
Experience
The Central Bank of the Bahamas responded to comments on Citigroup - Banamex, "enclos[ing]
an extract from the Banks and Trust Companies Regulation Act, 2000 specifying the criteria
for licensing of banks and trust companies including criteria for approval of beneficial
ownership thereof." Also: "We regret our inability to provided copies of related
applications due to statutory constraints."
Bermuda
Regulatory contact
Bermuda Monetary Authority
Burnaby House, 26 Burnaby Street
Hamilton HM 11 Bermuda
Tel 1 441 2 955 278
Fax 1 441 2 927 471
Web www.bma.bm
E-mail info@bma.bm
Laws
http://www.bma.bm/bmawww.nsf/WebPages/BermudaLaws?OpenDocument
Experience (on HSBC-Bank of Bermuda)
In a message dated 10/30/03 9:08:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, CLister@bma.bm writes:
Dear Mr. Lee,
I am hereby confirming receipt of your email dated October 29th. Your comments have been
duly noted.
Yours sincerely
Cheryl-Ann Lister, CFA
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Bermuda Monetary Authority
E-mail: clister [at] bma.bm
Telephone: (441)-295-5278
Fax: (441)-292-7471
[The above was in connection with HSBC
- Bank of Bermuda
The Bank of Bermuda Limited
6 Front Street, Hamilton HM 11
PO Box HM 1020
Hamilton HM DX
Telephone No: (441) 295-4000
Facsimile No: (441) 295-7093
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FFW
researches, documents and advocates around financial firms' activities, and how they
affect local communities. FFW files its findings with tribunals, regulatory agencies, and
elsewhere, including on this Web site . Click here to view analyses of several
multinational financial institutions' effects on consumers and the environment, worldwide:
for two examples, Citigroup and HSBC. Click here for some initial brainstorming on the application
of human rights and international law to the global financial services companies, and for
citations (where possible, links)
to resource material. Click here for some September 2004 campaigns -- PNC/Riggs (Finance Watch Reports of August 16,
2004, onwards), J.P. Morgan Chase,
etc.. Click here for an
ongoing report on the campaign to reform anti-money laundering, tax haven, and bank
secrecy laws. Click here for
the Human Rights Enforcement project,
including its new (9/04) criminal
justice and local human rights project. For or with more information, contact us.
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