{"id":239735,"date":"2002-10-18T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2002-10-18T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=239735"},"modified":"2021-02-14T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:00:33","slug":"bfsb-elects-new-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2002\/10\/bfsb-elects-new-chairman","title":{"rendered":"BFSB Elects New Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael L. Paton was elected Chairman of The Bahamas Financial Services Board (BFSB). He succeeds Ian Fair who has relinquished his position in accordance with the rules of the BFSB. <\/p>\n<p><P>Michael Paton is a Senior Partner at Lennox Paton, Counsel and Attorneys-at-Law and is the head of the firm&#8217;s Financial Services Group. Paton is also a qualified Certified Public Accountant. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;I look forward to the challenge of leading the BFSB and it is my intention to endeavor to be a worthy successor to Fair, whose indefatigable efforts while chairman of BFSB, have been critical to the success of the BFSB todate. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;I look forward to developing a strong working relationship with the Minister of Financial Services and Investment as there are numerous issues that must be dealt with in the near future. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;I also hope to work with the Minister and industry leaders to develop proactive and effective measures which will lead to the continued development of The Bahamas as a leading offshore financial center.&#8221; <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Bruno Roberts, Client Operation Officer of the Private Trust Corporation Limited was elected Deputy Chairman of the BFSB. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I look forward to the challenge&#8230;&#8221; says Paton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241350,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239735\/revisions\/241350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}