Company Performance Metrics
The Company, through the Bank, is engaged in providing global trade finance with particular emphasis on trade with and between the Region and the United States or otherwise involving the Region. Management believes that trade finance provides the Company with the opportunity for substantial and profitable growth, primarily with moderate credit
risk, and that the Bank is the only domestic financial institution in the State of Florida focusing primarily on financing foreign trade. Through its relationships with approximately 500 correspondent banks and with importers and exporters in the United States and the Region, as well as its location in South Florida, which is becoming a focal point for trade in the Region, the Company has been able to take advantage of substantial growth in this trade. Much of this growth has been associated with the adoption of economic stabilization policies in the major countries of the Region.
