Republic Bank Limited is a Caribbean financial institution headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago.
It has operations in Anguilla, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
[3] In 1909 the Colonial Bank established a branch on High Street, San Fernando.
[3] In 1939, as a result of the labor disturbances and the announcement that Britain was at war with Germany, the bank experienced a run.
RB also purchased 20% of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (West Indies) Holdings Limited.
This gave RB linkages with the holding company's branches in the Caribbean islands of Barbados, St. Vincent, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia and Jamaica.
In 1997 The purchase of approximately 10.9 million shares gave RB a total of 95.3% of Bank of Commerce.
RB also acquired 47.5% of the shares of National Bank of Industry and Commerce (NBIC) from the government of Guyana.
Republic Bank delisted the shares of BNB from the Barbados Stock Exchange at end 2013.