The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) continues to partner with the Caribbean Science Foundation (CSF) to groom the next generation of science, engineering, technology and business leaders in the region through the Student Programme for…

After 15 and one half years of service to the people of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), Trevor Brathwaite demitted office as Deputy Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) on 15 September.

At a farewell event held in…

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) will engage stakeholders on the topic ‘Pandemic and Education’ when discussions resume on 28 September with a new series of its Digital Dialogues.

The ECCB recognises that one of the biggest disruptions…

CEO at the National Commercial Bank of Anguilla, Sharmaine Francios, advises that: “Now is not the time to put financial planning on hold.”

Francois is the guests on this week’s episode of ECCB Connects; she discusses financial planning during…

As children return to school in a COVID-19 environment, the guests on this week’s episode of ECCB Connects are of the view that stakeholders in education should work together to ensure that the region’s children excel academically.

Secondary…

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) recognises the important contribution women make to the region’s economies and encourages the empowerment of women agricultural entrepreneurs.  

In the first episode of Season 17 of ECCB Connects which was…

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) hereby advises that effective 1 September, the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) operations in Antigua and Barbuda will cease and the Eastern Caribbean Amalgamated Bank's (ECAB’s) operations will include the…

The new EC$5 polymer banknote is now available in Antigua and Barbuda.

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has issued the new notes to the Antigua Commercial Bank.

The ECCB launched its family of polymer notes in May 2019 with the new $50 note…

DCash, the digital version of the EC Dollar, is now available for public use in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

This comes following the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank’s (ECCB) issuance of DCash to the RBTT Caribbean Bank, Saint Vincent and the…

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is encouraging the citizens and residents of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union to be financially prepared to respond adequately to natural disasters.

In the season finale of ECCB Connects this week,…

Communiqué of the 99^th Meeting of the Monetary Council of the

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank

Issued: 23 July 2021

The Ninety-Ninth Meeting of the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) was held on 23 July 2021, via…

The people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are next in line to benefit from a safer, faster, cheaper way to pay for goods and services with the imminent launch of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank’s (ECCB) DCash; the digital version of the EC…

Following an open process supported by SRI Executive Search and a report from the Monetary Council appointed Selection Panel, which interviewed the shortlisted candidates, the Monetary Council has determined that the next Deputy Governor of the…

Chairmanship of the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) will be transferred to the Honourable Premier and Council Member for Montserrat, Joseph Easton Farrell, during a Handing Over Ceremony on 23 July.

Premier Farrell will…

As the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) marks 45 years of maintaining the EC dollar peg to the US dollar at a fixed rate of EC$2.70 to US$1.00, the Bank reflects, with pride, on the history of the EC dollar on this episode of ECCB Connects.

Reti…