With commendable insight the management of IBL, early in the  BIS Review 17/2006  1  game, staked out a strategic market niche focusing on core banking, geared to meeting the personal and business needs of a small but thriving geographical area. IBL is unique in another sense – it has turned the conventional CARICOM order on its head.
Over the last few years there has been a proliferation of crossborder ownership in the CARICOM region. However, invariably, this has meant Trinidad and Tobago banks expanding their wings abroad. The acquisition of IBL by the Jamaica Money Market Brokers reflected a reversal of this dominant order.