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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Le Hunte: ANSA Bank on digital drive

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Joel Julien
1555 days ago
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ANSA McAL Group CEO Anthony Sabga III, right, receives the first cheque book from ANSA Bank managing director Robert Le Hunte yesterday.

ANSA McAL Group CEO Anthony Sabga III, right, receives the first cheque book from ANSA Bank managing director Robert Le Hunte yesterday.

The bank of the fu­ture is here.

And its name is ANSA Bank.

This is how ANSA Bank’s man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Robert Le Hunte has de­scribed the newest en­trant to this coun­try’s fi­nan­cial sec­tor.

Le Hunte said with­in the next 15 months the bank is aim­ing to im­ple­ment dig­i­tal bank­ing on an “un­prece­dent­ed” lev­el lo­cal­ly.

And for that to hap­pen Le Hunte said there are three crit­i­cal in­gre­di­ents that ANSA Bank will use.

These are in­no­va­tion, re­spon­sive­ness and cre­ativ­i­ty.

But who can be­come an ANSA Bank cus­tomer?

“We of­fer cus­tomised fi­nanc­ing to large cor­po­ra­tions but meet­ing the need of medi­um, small and mi­cro en­ter­pris­es and sup­port­ing en­tre­pre­neur­ial Trin­bag­o­ni­ans are al­so our pri­or­i­ties. First-time home-own­er and salary em­ploy­ees meet­ing the rigours of day to day liv­ing are all wel­come. This is in­deed a bank for all,” Le Hunte said.

ANSA Bank of­fi­cial­ly opened its doors for the first time at 9 am yes­ter­day at its Port-of-Spain, Ch­agua­nas and San Fer­nan­do.

And it was a day of sev­er­al firsts.

Chef Ra­jen­dra Singh was the first cus­tomer to en­ter ANSA Bank’s Port-of-Spain branch at 9 am.

He re­ceived an em­bossed de­canter set from Le Hunte to com­mem­o­rate the his­toric mo­ment.

Eve­lyn Ramkissoon was the first cus­tomer at the San Fer­nan­do branch.

And ANSA McAL’s Group Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer An­tho­ny N Sab­ga III re­ceived the first cheque book.

Speak­ing to staff vir­tu­al­ly yes­ter­day ANSA Bank’s chair­man David Du­lal-White­way called it a “red-let­ter day” re­fer­ring to the bank’s sign.

“To­geth­er we will es­tab­lish mile­stones which will set the course of the bank, while not quite pi­o­neers in un­chart­ed ter­ri­to­ry, some may con­sid­er that we are punch­ing above our weight by dar­ing to launch a new bank dur­ing a pan­dem­ic,” Du­lal-White­way said.

“But it is for this very new nor­mal that the ANSA Bank mod­el is de­signed,” he said.

ANSA Mer­chant Bank com­plet­ed its ac­qui­si­tion of Bank of Bar­o­da’s op­er­a­tions in T&T last month.

The trans­ac­tion was ini­ti­at­ed via a sales agree­ment signed in De­cem­ber 2019 and was ap­proved by the Cen­tral Bank last No­vem­ber.

“We have been en­trust­ed with an ex­cel­lent foun­da­tion from Bank of Bar­o­da. To­day we take that foun­da­tion and launch ANSA bank in­to the fu­ture of end­less pos­si­bil­i­ties,” Du­lal-White­way stat­ed.


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