It recently announced a Maya Declaration Commitment to continue with the modernization of the payment system, and submit legislation to regulate and supervise micro finance institutions to relevant authorities in 2013.

The attack was driven back by the bank's security guards leaving 3 people killed.

[3] The oldest reference to a bank in Haiti can be attributed to a short correspondence exchanged during September 1825 between a foreign tradesman, Nicholas Kane, the Secretary of State Balthazar Inginac about a proposal made by George Clark in the name of a German group, Hermann Hendrick and Co., to establish a bank in Haiti.

The National City Bank of New York took over the BNRH following the United States occupation of Haiti,[4] and gained full ownership in 1919.

In 1935, the Haitian government acquired the BNRH from National City Bank.