{"id":62611,"date":"2014-05-01T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/banking-upheaval"},"modified":"2014-05-01T12:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:20:27","slug":"banking-upheaval-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/05\/banking-upheaval-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Banking Upheaval in The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\"><em>Open letter to:\u00a0 The Minister of Finance, Nassau, Bahamas.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21009\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21009\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21009\" alt=\"offshore banking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/offshore-banking.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/offshore-banking.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/offshore-banking-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">offshore banking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and FirstCaribbean Bank are all presently down-sizing.<\/p>\n<p>Bank of the Bahamas is getting adverse reports in the press.<\/p>\n<p>Two Swiss offshore banks are in the process of closing some of their local operations.<\/p>\n<p>I should be obliged to learn why all of these happenings are taking place at this time!<\/p>\n<p>Your assistance in explaining this to me will be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>By:\u00a0 Concerned Citizen<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major banks are downsizing, Bank of The Bahamas is a mess, offshore banks are leaving&#8230; what&#8217;s going on with banking in The Bahamas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21009,"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":[14],"tags":[87,72],"class_list":["post-62611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","tag-banking","tag-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62611","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}