The Dominican Republic's central bank said on 4 November that its share of spot dollar trading has fallen from 93.06 per cent in 2019 to about a tenth. It publishes the wholesale rate twice a day. Trinidad runs a screened window, and Guyana publishes no equivalent share.
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The Bank of Jamaica sold three-month Treasury bills on 4 November at an average yield of 6.43 per cent. The same instrument pays a Guyanese bank 1.10. Parking clears a Guyanese bank 0.29 points over what it pays savers, and a Jamaican bank 4.33.
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Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited's audited accounts for the year ended 30 September 2026 show 62.8 per cent of the year's new deposits going out again as loans. A year earlier the bank added G$1.57 of government paper for every dollar it lent. EY signed on 27 October.
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The Bank of Guyana publishes what banks earn. Lending pays them about seven times what a short-term government bill pays. Every one of the country's six commercial banks also holds money outside Guyana, where it pays about four times the home rate.
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Bank of Baroda (Guyana) Inc.'s audited accounts for the year ended 31 March 2026 show new holdings of Government of Guyana Treasury bills running at 2.83 times new lending. Agriculture fell 19.9 per cent to 1.1 per cent of the loan book. Mortgages are 57.9 per cent of it.
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The Guyana Development Bank opened in October 2026 outside the statute that carries the Bank of Guyana's collateral rule. Its own Act, at section 32, exempts it from the Financial Institutions Act. The rule six Georgetown Chamber presidents have contested since 2014 therefore does not reach it.
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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 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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