The Bankers’ As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT) has wel­comed Gayle Pa­zos as Pres­i­dent. She will serve in this ca­pac­i­ty for the next two years.

Pa­zos, Se­nior Vice Pres­i­dent and Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Sco­tia­bank took up the man­tle from Richard Down­ie, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of RBC Roy­al Bank. The As­so­ci­a­tion ex­pressed its heart­felt grat­i­tude to Down­ie and his team for their con­tri­bu­tions, es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Over the past two years, BATT says it has made progress against its agen­da, in­clud­ing Dig­i­tal Fi­nan­cial Ed­u­ca­tion; Fi­nan­cial Lit­er­a­cy ini­tia­tives in Trinidad (Bel­mont, El Do­ra­do & To­ba­go-Canaan and Sig­nal Hill), and the launch of the Elec­tron­ic Cheque Clear­ing, to name a few.

Speak­ing at the Hand-Over Cer­e­mo­ny, Pa­zos high­light­ed BATT’s crit­i­cal role in ad­vanc­ing the eco­nom­ic growth of the coun­try. “We are a crit­i­cal part of the so­cial fab­ric, and as well en­gines of eco­nom­ic growth We will con­tin­ue to demon­strate the en­dur­ing strength of the lo­cal bank­ing sec­tor by re­main­ing com­mit­ted to trans­paren­cy and ac­count­abil­i­ty, in­creased fo­cus on cus­tomer and sup­port for fi­nan­cial in­clu­sion and sus­tain­abil­i­ty.” Pa­zos com­ment­ed.