01/05/2023

Gov’t pledges law change over its $233m borrowing

Combined with total issued Treasury Bills, and securities issued or guaranteed by the Government and its corporations, total outstanding loans to the former by the Central Bank cannot exceed 30 percent of the Government’s “average” or &a

01/03/2023

Bahamas regulator has seized $3.5 billion of FTX assets

The regulator seized the assets under a court order on 12 Nov. because of a risk of “imminent dissipation” of the assets, the commission’s executive director Christina Rolle said in an affidavit filed with the Bahamas Supreme Court.

12/30/2022

Central Bank wants stricter due diligence to stop another FTX

In its newly released guidelines, the bank is asking for the risk management framework governing digital assets activity to be fully integrated into the overall risk management processes of the supervised financial institution (SFI).

12/29/2022

Bahamas now largely compliant on all 40 FATF recommendations

The Bahamas has been in an enhanced follow-up process, following the adoption of the CFATF mutual evaluation report, which assessed the effectiveness of The Bahamas’ anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) measures and the co