In the meanwhile, the business of local financial institutions with their overseas correspondent banks continues. Such overseas correspondent banks are assured of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve Bank in the US.
The Central Bank of Barbados also provides liquidity support to domestic banks but there is no reason to expect that this will be called upon as our banks (except for possible losses in value on their US dollar securities) have not been  BIS Review 125/2008  1  directly impacted by the developments in the US market.