Oriental Bank received the “Excellence in Quality Banking Award” from the Puerto Rico Products Association last weekend, for supporting local entrepreneurship and for its outstanding contribution to the local economy.
OFG Bancorp, which until earlier this week was known as Oriental Financial Group Inc., revealed its first quarter results Thursday, which reflected income of $17.7 million for the three-month period, up from the $9.5 million reported for the same year-ago quarter.
Puerto Rico’s executive branch has the necessary staff, resources and commitment to take over managing and resolving the island’s fiscal issues and block out all of the “noise” coming out of the Legislature, veteran Economist José Joaquín Villamil recently said.