The Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT) has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Pres­i­dent & Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed, Nigel Bap­tiste, as its new Pres­i­dent, ef­fec­tive Au­gust 14, 2025.

Bap­tiste suc­ceeds Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Sco­tia­bank, Gayle Pa­zos, and will serve a two-year term from 2025 to 2027. He pre­vi­ous­ly held the po­si­tion of Pres­i­dent of BATT and has worked in the bank­ing sec­tor for more than three decades.

Bap­tiste is a grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies where he earned a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence with Ho­n­ours and a Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Eco­nom­ics. He al­so com­plet­ed the Ad­vanced Man­age­ment Pro­gramme at Har­vard Busi­ness School, a Diplo­ma with dis­tinc­tion from the ABA Stonier Grad­u­ate School of Bank­ing in the Unit­ed States, and is a mem­ber of the Char­tered In­sti­tute of Bankers in Eng­land.

BATT stat­ed that un­der Bap­tiste’s lead­er­ship, the As­so­ci­a­tion will fo­cus on strength­en­ing ca­pac­i­ty for small and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es and the wider ser­vices sec­tor, pro­mot­ing ease of do­ing busi­ness with an em­pha­sis on cus­tomer-cen­tered so­lu­tions, and deep­en­ing fi­nan­cial ed­u­ca­tion and dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy. Spe­cial at­ten­tion will be placed on vul­ner­a­ble com­mu­ni­ties, the un­banked, and the un­der­banked.

The As­so­ci­a­tion ex­pressed grat­i­tude to Pa­zos for her lead­er­ship over the past two years, not­ing that sev­er­al ini­tia­tives to ex­pand fi­nan­cial in­clu­sion and ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty were suc­cess­ful­ly ex­e­cut­ed un­der her tenure.

BATT said it is con­fi­dent that Bap­tiste will con­tin­ue to strength­en the fi­nan­cial sec­tor and con­tribute to na­tion­al eco­nom­ic growth.