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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Financial services |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | 157, rue Faubert Pétion-Ville, Haiti |
Key people | F. Carl Braun (Chairman and CEO) |
| Revenue | US$ 95.2 million (2017) |
| US$ 15.2 million (2017) | |
| Total assets | US$ 1.645 billion (2017) |
Number of employees | 1,311 (2017) |
| Website | UnibankHaiti.com |
Unibank, S.A. is one of Haiti's two largest private commercial banks. The bank was founded in 1993 by a group of Haitian investors and is the main company of Groupe Financier National (GFN). It opened its first office in July 1993 in downtown Port-au-Prince and has 51 branches throughout the country as of the end of 2017.
On December 28, 2016, Unibank acquired Scotiabank's Haiti operations. Today, Unibank is the parent company of a group of subsidiaries each concentrating in a specific financial area:
- Unicarte (Credit cards)
- Unifinance (Investment banking)
- Unicrédit (Consumer finance)
- IMSA (Real estate)
- SNI (Investment management)
- Capital Consult (Consulting firm)
- Unitransfer (Money transfer)
- Micro Crédit National (Microcredit)
- UniAssuranes (Insurance)
In October 2023, Carl Braun, Chairman Emeritus and Founding Director of Unibank, resigned from his position as a result of sanctions imposed on him by Canada.[1] Indeed, Carl Braun is on a list of Haitian businessmen who, according to Canadian authorities, "fuel violence and instability in Haiti by engaging in corruption and other criminal acts, and by enabling armed gangs to carry out illegal activities that terrorize the population and threaten peace and security in Haiti."[2]
Previously, in April 2023, Edouard Baussan, 1st Vice President and former member of Unibank's Board of Directors, had been the subject of three joint investigations by the FBI, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Treasury Department of the United States (OFAC).[3]
References
- ↑ VBI (2023-10-12). "Sanctionné par le Canada, Carl Braun démissionne du Conseil d'Administration de la UNIBANK". Vant Bèf Info (VBI) (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ↑ "Canada imposes sanctions against members of Haiti's economic elite". Reuters. 2023-09-21. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ↑ "iciHaiti - UNIBANK : The FBI, OFAC and OAS are investigating the former Vice-Chairman of the Board - iciHaiti.com : All the news in brief 7/7". IciHaiti.com. Retrieved 2023-10-13.