- Oversight Strategy for 1st National St. Vincent branch
Earlier this week, 1st National Bank (Saint Lucia) Limited’s Managing Director, Fletcher St. Jean, led a high-powered executive team to St. Vincent & The Grenadines (SVG) to implement the bank’s 2024 Oversight Strategy for its branch there.
The Managing Director, Chief People Officer Nadia Alcide, and Chief Technology Officer Marcus Jolie left the island Wednesday (January 17) for Kingstown “to ensure 1st National Bank stabilises its presence in the market and to further enhance our brand and build partnerships” in SVG.
1st National Bank (Saint Lucia) Ltd. bought RBTT’s SVG operations in April 2021 and completed the ownership conversion in February 2022. It received its final regulatory banking licence in August 2022.
The MD, President Nigel Fulgence, and Deputy Managing Director Sandra Fontinelle visited the SVG branch.
Chief People Officer Alcide, who oversees all 1st National Bank (Saint Lucia) human resources, met with SVG branch personnel, and Chief Technology Officer Jolie spoke with technical staff.
Last month, live streaming between the Royalton Hotel at Cap Estate in Gros Islet and St. Vincent’s Palm Island hotel allowed the Vincentian branch’s management and staff to attend the 1st National Bank (Saint Lucia) online 2024 ‘Soiree Noir’ Christmas Party and Staff Awards Ceremony.
Saint Lucia’s only indigenous national bank, originally the St. Lucia Cooperative Bank, purchased RBTT in SVG and RBC in Saint Lucia last year after 85 years.
On January 16, MD St. Jean was elected Chair of the Bankers Association of Saint Lucia (BASL). He says, “We at 1st National Bank (Saint Lucia) Ltd. will work with all other fellow banking, financial and commercial entities in 2024, including our SVG branch, to continue improving our services to customers and roles in these new and ever-changing times.”
