From late 2019, we will deploy more supervisory attention on the smaller domestic licensees. In the international sector, the Central Bank has identified relatively more requirements among home-supervised rather than host-supervised institutions. This is, to some extent, an  7  artefact of our 2018 and 2019 onsite examination schedule, which has focused more on Bahamian-owned vs. foreign-owned banks and trust companies.
While the idea of European federalism certainly has followers in every European nation, at the level of decision-makers, the prevalence of nation states seems to be unquestioned in the present perspective. The long-term objectives are more open, and one has to admit that European integration is seen as a dynamic difficult to stop.