Caribbean Centre for Money & Finance (CCMF)
The Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance (CCMF) which was formally launched in May 2008, evolved from the Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies (CCMS), with a broader financial sector mandate and additional contributions. The CCMS was formally established in May 1995, to carry forward the work of the previous Regional Programme of Monetary Studies (RPMS), a programme which had served the Caribbean well for the previous 27 years. The RPMS programme was established in 1968 as a partnership between the Central Banks of CARICOM and the Universities of the West Indies and Guyana. The aim was to facilitate high quality research in monetary, financial and central banking issues in the region.
The CCMF builds on the solid foundation of the CCMS facilitating high quality research in monetary, financial and central banking issues in the region, while at the same time incorporating recent focus areas such as investment, securities, insurance and other financial sector issues.
The current sponsors of the Centre are the Central Banks of:
- Aruba
- The Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Eastern Caribbean States
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Netherland Antilles
- Trinidad and Tobago
and the University of the West Indies (UWI).
The CCMF has a long record of publication, including most recently the compendium Finance and Real Development in the Caribbean (2006), and important reference works which document changes in financial structures and central bank policies in the Caribbean over several decades: The Financial Evolution of the Caribbean Community (1970‑1996) and Central Banks of The Caribbean Community ‑ A Profile, 1996. The Journal of Business, Finance and Economics in Emerging Economies (JBF3E) is now available to subscribers in electronic form. Abstracts of articles from JBF3E appear on the Centre’s website www.ccmfuwi.org .
