He was the Dean of the Central Bank Governors of the Caribbean and Latin America and, for years, was the region’s spokesman in the main international monetary organizations – the G-20 and G-77.
As the first local Central Bank Governor, Victor Bruce played a critical role in: •  steering the banking system through localisation, and the political turmoil of the 1970s;  •  managing the break with the pound sterling and the shift of the country’s peg to the US dollar;  •  widening the network of commercial bank branches to allow easier access to banking services; and  •  the creation of a number of capital market institutions, most notably, the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange, the Unit Trust Corporation and the Home Mortgage Bank.