Eastern Caribbean Central Bank 2024-2025 Annual Report

EASTERN CARIBBEAN CENTRAL BANK ANNUAL REPORT 2024 - 2025

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

Financial Information Month Festival - October 2024 The Financial Information Month (FIM) Festival partners coordinated and successfully executed activities for the 2024 FIM Festival, engaging residents and citizens of the ECCU on the area of focus: Financial Investing: From Savers to Investors. Planning Committees in the ECCB member countries formulated country-specific sub-themes and launched various initiatives aimed at encouraging individuals and businesses to prioritise financial investing. The sub-themes included: ; Opening a Bank Account: In an effort to promote inclusivity, the FIM Festival partners, through this sub-theme, encouraged residents of the ECCU to become part of the ECCU financial system by considering and taking steps toward opening bank accounts if they had not already done so. ; Consistency in Savings: Various initiatives including: workshops and radio programmes were executed to encourage individuals to make saving a way of life. ; Investing: FIM Festival partners and subject matter experts implored the public to consider the various investment opportunities available to enhance their financial futures. Additionally, individuals were urged to explore investment options through the Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange. About FIM The FIM Festival is a regional financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial education campaign executed in the ECCU in October since 2002, through the collaborative efforts of the ECCB, ECCU member governments, financial and academic institutions, the media, other private and public sector institutions and community-based groups. The month forms part the ECCB’s financial education programme which incorporates a series of initiatives designed to support the attainment of the goal of “a financially developed and vibrant ECCU region that fosters strong and sustainable economic growth and the improved wellbeing of the citizenry.”

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