Caribbean Financial Services

Caribbean Financial Services Corporation (CFSC) is a limited liability company incorporated in 1984 by a special Act of Parliament in Barbados. CFSC is located in and operates out of Barbados and provides the English speaking countries in Caricom with developmental finance in the form of medium and long term loans, accompanied where appropriate by... equity investments for start-ups and expansions. As a financial intermediary, the Corporation sources funds from local and international institutions and acts as a catalyst in attracting funding from other institutions through co-financing arrangements. CFSC's core business areas are loan and equity investments to commercially viable, export-oriented, employment generating projects in the private sectors of the Caribbean including the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Belize and Barbados. CFSC's clients are generally small and medium sized emerging, start-up and expansion projects that benefit from cash flow lending. CFSC remains the key regional financing organisation that provides debt and/or equity financing for such businesses. CFSC is also a shareholder of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. Additionally, since its inception in 1984, the Corporation has acted as an Arranger for syndicates and in the last few years has coordinated securitisations within the region.Read More