Back in 2013, the then Secretary of the US Treasury, Jack Lew, said that “(…) the global financial crisis (…) underscored the need for strengthening financial sector regulation across the globe.
*  *  *  Barbados has always been a society and economy oriented to the outside world, from the beginning of its recorded history, but the terms of our engagement with the rest of the world have changed in fundamental ways in the 21st century.