The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced Tuesday it ordered Santander Securities LLC to pay some $4.3 million in restitution to certain customers who were solicited to purchase Puerto Rican Municipal Bonds, or PRMBs.
The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association inducted its first two members from Puerto Rico this week during an event led by the organization’s CEO, William Kelly.
First BanCorp, the bank holding company for FirstBank Puerto Rico reported Wednesday a net loss of $34.1 million for the second quarter of 2015, or $0.16 per diluted share, compared to net income of $25.6 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2015 and net income of $21.2 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2014.
The Puerto Rico central government is facing pressure to “act with more conviction and with more urgency” to address its dwindling liquidity, crushing debt and anxiety building up over the island’s fiscal problems.
High-ranking Popular Inc. executives were in this city this week to inaugurate the new headquarters for its Popular Community Bank business in North America, with expectations that the operation will generate more than $100 million in revenue over the next two or three years.
The Community Investment Fund, launched last November with an initial $500,000 contribution from its founder, the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, has more than doubled its capital base to $1.1 million in investments from the private sector, the nonprofit announced Thursday.
Although the island’s economy is facing one of its most difficult moments, it is still possible to weather the storm with proper financial planning, executives from Banco Popular’s securities and insurance divisions said Thursday.
First BanCorp., the bank holding company for FirstBank Puerto Rico, announced Tuesday it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell a portfolio comprised of mostly non-performing and classified commercial loans and real estate owned totaling $199.8 million of unpaid principal balance, or $150.1 million of book value, for $87.6 million in cash or 43.8 percent of the unpaid principal balance of the assets.
More than 9,000 homeowners in Puerto Rico could save an average of $182 a month, or approximately $2,200 a year, on their mortgage loans as the result of the extension through 2016 of the Home Affordable Refinance Program and the Home Affordable Modification Program, federal authorities said this month.
The Public Corporation for the Supervision of Puerto Rico Cooperatives, or COSSEC as the entity is known in Spanish, said Tuesday that the island’s credit unions approved some $1.3 billion in mortgage and mortgage-related loans during the first quarter of 2015, for a combined portfolio of 18,385 financing agreements.
Small loans company Money Express, a FirstBank sister operation, is marking 20 years of doing business in Puerto Rico, where it commands a 22 percent market share with a $104 million loan portfolio.
Arturo Carrión, who for the last 29 years served as executive vice president of the Puerto Rico Bankers Association, is retiring from his post on June 30, when he will be succeeded by Zoimé Álvarez-Rubio, trade group President José Rafael-Fernández announced Tuesday.
First BanCorp., the bank holding company for FirstBank Puerto Rico on Monday reported net income of $25.6 million for the first quarter of 2015, or $0.12 per diluted share, compared to $330.8 million, or $1.56 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2014 and $17.1 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2014.
Nearly five years after falling under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s watch, First BanCorp, parent company of FirstBank Puerto Rico, announced Thursday the regulator has terminated the Consent Order under which it had been operating since June 2, 2010.
The heads of the island’s two largest banks took turns in recent days expressing their concerns about the current fiscal scenario and whether political leaders are willing to make the right decisions to put Puerto Rico’s economy back on track.
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