First BanCorp President Aurelio Alemán echoed Thursday what many other banking executives have been saying in recent months: the sector is slowly starting to pick up the pieces after the storm, but much work remains ahead for it to thrive again.
Ten months after South Florida-based BBU Bank acquired and merged Banesco International Bank Corp. into its mainland U.S. domestic banking operations, it will be changing its name to Banesco USA, the banking institution’s CEO Rafael "Rafo" Saldaña said.
Some 18,000 homeowners in Puerto Rico were facing the possibility of losing their homes to their mortgage bank as of November 2010, the Financial Institutions Commissioner’s office (OCIF, as it is known by its initials in Spanish) said Tuesday.