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Business View Caribbean
The Eastern Caribbean
Securities Exchange
Investing in the future
The Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange (ECSE) is
a regional securities market established and licensed
under uniform regional legislation governing securities
market activities. It was designed to facilitate the buy-
ing and selling of financial products, including corpo-
rate stocks and bonds, and government securities, for
the eight ECCB member states of the Organization of
the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) - Anguilla, Anti-
gua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat,
St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the
Grenadines.
According to Trevor Blake, ECSE’s General Manager,
the ECSE came into existence as a result of a diagnos-
tic study made by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank
in the 1990s. “That diagnostic identified a number of
gaps that existed in a fragmented financial system,”
he explains. “Amongst those was the need for other
