The Financial Stability Index of commercial banks in Puerto Rico, prepared by Estudios Técnicos Inc., shows a strengthening in the banking industry this year, mainly due to an improvement in its liquidity and increases of $16 billion in deposits in the first quarter of 2021. “The index increased from 0.52 in the first quarter of […]
The government of Puerto Rico will go broke by Oct. 31 unless the U.S. Department of Treasury approves an injection of between $4 billion and $6 billion that the local Treasury Department has requested.
The Puerto Rico Government Development Bank released Monday its latest liquidity report showing the agency had $777.8 million left as of May 31, representing a 24 percent drop from the $1.02 billion it had in April.