G&T Continental Expands to Costa Rica and Panama

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Both companies were already part of the G&T Continental Financial Group which is now completing the formalities to change the name with the respective supervisory authorities in Costa Rica and Panama.

In this way, G&T’s presence now covers four Central American countries by adding Panama and Costa Rica to Guatemala and El Salvador, where it was already operating.

Fernando Quiñónez said in his article in Siglo XXI that Amador Carballido, manager of the Development Banking Division of G&T Group, stated that "in Costa Rica, the Group has focused on providing loans mainly to small and medium sized enterprises, as well as companies that have great business relationships with the other nations where G&T operates in order to facilitate transactions."

Source: sigloxxi.com

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