Page 1 of 2June 30, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELEASE NCB FINANCIAL GROUP STREAMLINES INSURANCE PORTFOLIO In a bid to strengthen its Jamaican insurance portfolio and optimise its product and service offerings and customer experience, NCB Financial Group Limited (“NCBFG”) has begun the process of streamlining the insurance business currently
GENEVA, Switzerland – The number of working hours lost across the world in the first half of 2020 was significantly worse than previously estimated. The highly uncertain recovery in the second half of the year will not be enough to go back to pre-pandemic levels, even in the best scenario,
INTERNATIONAL payment company Mastercard in its latest study has found that more customers worldwide are utilising e-commerce platforms and digital payment services. This they said stems from the constraints imposed on the daily lives of consumers as a result of COVID-19, which has been changing the way how people shop.
THE Jamaican economy declined by 2.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2020 when compared to the similar quarter of 2019. That was the announcement made yesterday by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) in a release. In the release STATIN said the 2.3 per cent decline of the
Businesses should not be expecting free cash, but with this crisis it is the small businesses that, to a great extent, will contribute to jump-starting the economy when we are over this pandemic. Of the funding the Government is putting into the various stimulus packages announced earlier, a portion could
CARIBBEAN economist Marla Dukharan has launched a stinging broadside against the European Union regarding what she said was its unilateral blacklisting of some developing countries such as Jamaica, others in the Caribbean and the wider globe. Describing the EU's blacklisting of these countries as an act of racism and bullyism,
HE Insurance Association of Jamaica (IAJ) will be rolling out next month its Insurance Vehicle Information System (IVIS), which it says will significantly aid the sifting out of uninsured motor vehicles from the nation's roads. IVIS is a database of all the vehicles that are insured in Jamaica. This unique
