Nadaleen Singh

Even as con­tro­ver­sy con­tin­ues to rage over calls for a boy­cott of T&T goods in Ja­maica, a Ja­maican-owned bank un­veiled new brand­ing at its lo­cal head­quar­ters in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.

IBL Bank has been of­fi­cial­ly re-brand­ed as JMMB Bank, three years af­ter it be­came 100 per cent owned by the Ja­maica-based JMMB Group of Com­pa­nies.

At the of­fi­cial cer­e­mo­ny yes­ter­day morn­ing, JMMB Group deputy chair­man Archibald Camp­bell called for di­a­logue be­tween T&T and Ja­maica to be con­duct­ed in the spir­it of Cari­com.

"We fo­cus too many times on the dif­fer­ences that we have rather than fo­cus on the good things we have to­geth­er," he said.

Once ap­proval is grant­ed, JMMB's range of in­vest­ment's prod­ucts, in­clud­ing mu­tu­al funds will be of­fered in T&T. Camp­bell said the bank is not daunt­ed by the con­trac­tion in the T&T econ­o­my be­cause JMMB al­ways plans for the longer-term. "We al­so have an ex­treme­ly good risk de­part­ment in which we as­sess the fu­ture. We recog­nise that there are op­por­tu­ni­ties to made even when there is a cri­sis," he said.

Nigel Ro­mano, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor and CEO of JMMB T&T Lim­it­ed, said with the coun­try fac­ing tough times it is time to get clos­er to the bank's clients.