Ewart S Williams: Leveraging our strength for an international financial centre Address by Mr Ewart S Williams, Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, at the International Financial Center (IFC) Symposium, Port-of-Spain, 2 April 2008.
Our solution: to improve the quality of supervision and implement far-reaching structural reforms in cooperation with the Executive and Legislative branches of government. Today, bank profits are better and capital base deeper, while NPA and NPL ratios are nearly back at pre-crisis levels. As a result, our banking sector is recognized as strong and able to withstand the fallout from the global financial turmoil.