{"id":3559,"date":"2010-10-28T08:36:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2010-10-28T08:36:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:36:34","slug":"bahamian-banker-creates-internet-based-bank-in-st-kitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/bahamian-banker-creates-internet-based-bank-in-st-kitts","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Banker Creates Internet-Based Bank In St. Kitts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading Bahamian banker told Tribune Business his next expansion is set to take place imminently from St Kitts via a &#8220;fully-fledged Internet-based bank&#8221;, adding that this should not be seen as a &#8220;loss&#8221; for the Bahamas since this nation was &#8220;not ready&#8221; for such an institution.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Bethel, president and chief executive of the Nassau-based Montaque Group, said the Montaque Financial Corporation would formally go live via the Internet on November 1, and added that it was not connected to his Nassau-based companies as a subsidiary or branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading Bahamian banker explained that St Kitts was chosen for his internet-based bank expansion because the Bahamas was &#8220;not ready&#8221; for such an institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[98,69],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-financial","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}