Private sector credit in Guyana rose G$155,671 million between 2023 and 2025 on Bank of Guyana figures. Real estate mortgages took more than a third of it, and construction and engineering one dollar in every fifty-five. Customer deposits stood at 202.4 per cent of the loan book.
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At a Georgetown banking forum on 26 November 2024, Bank of Guyana Governor Dr Gobind Ganga questioned why a furniture exporter wanted a US dollar account. Guyana sits outside the pilot group for the CARICOM payment system, and the Fast Pay launch set for 2 June 2026 remains unconfirmed.
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Paraguay pays the Instituto de Previsión Social, its equivalent of Guyana's National Insurance Scheme, before other depositors when a bank's assets are sold. Guyana's section 36 makes pension funds ineligible. A prosecutor says the fund's money at ueno bank went from US$12 million to US$364 million.
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Bahamian regulator URCA opened consultation ES-32/2026 on 2 November. Submissions close at 5 p.m. on 4 December. Section 16(2)(i) makes a damage-compensation procedure a statutory minimum, and resorts, marinas and gated communities that on-supply electricity sit inside the licence class.
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India announced a US$500 million Line of Credit for Guyana on 5 November 2026 at the Commonwealth summit in Antigua. Under India's own scheme document at least 75 per cent of contract value must be sourced from India, and bidding is limited to entities registered in India.
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The US Treasury designated five people and ten companies on 4 November over fraudulent ship registries that flagged Iranian shadow-fleet tankers, Guyana's flag among them. Guyana's register admits only wholly Guyanese or CARICOM-owned vessels, and MARAD publishes no list to check against.
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Guyana's Geology and Mines Commission found no material deviations in how extractive licences were awarded in 2023 and 2024, at the small, medium and large scales. The six documented processes behind the mineral finding are all medium- and large-scale properties.
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The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1890, 75 years before the Bank of Guyana opened. Six of its leaders have asked the Bank to change one credit rule since 2014. The rule still says a business's own machinery is not good collateral.
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The Guyana Development Bank publishes a sector breakdown of who applies, and agriculture is the largest share. It publishes no count of loans approved, none disbursed, and no split of approvals by sector. One month after it opened on 5 October 2026, applicants posting publicly report no reply.
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ueno bank's own investor releases carried a Fitch Core Capital of 10.3 per cent on 19 October 2026 and a total regulatory capital of 13.8 per cent on 29 October, for overlapping periods. Fitch moved the outlook to negative on 16 October. The central bank dissolved the bank on 2 November.
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Ten countries hold the smallest US raw cane sugar allocation, 7,258 tonnes each. Two are CARICOM members, Haiti and St Kitts and Nevis. When Washington distributed spare tonnage inside that quota on 23 September 2026, 28 countries got a 6.30 per cent uplift and the floor got none.
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Ten-year fly and cruise partnerships at La Romana with Central Romana Corporation were announced on 5 November 2026 for the AIDA Cruises and Costa Cruises brands. The same company's raw sugar has been under a US Withhold Release Order since November 2022, modified in March 2025.
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