UNIBANK is a full-service commercial bank
incorporated under the laws of Haiti. Privately-owned, it belongs to
approximately 400 Haitian shareholders, who are well-known industrialists,
merchants, professionals and investors. UNIBANK is part of a diversified
financial services group named “Groupe Financier National” (GFNÒ)
which operates in the following areas:
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Commercial banking (UNIBANK),
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Investment and merchant banking (UNIFINANCE), - Remittances from Haitians
living abroad
(UNITRANSFER),
- Micro-credit (MICRO CREDIT NATIONAL), - Consumer credit (UNICREDIT), -
Credit cards (UNICARTE)- Real
estate investments (IMMOBILIER S.A.-IMSA) - Management consulting (CAPITAL
CONSULT)- Investment company management (Societe Nationale D’investissement
– SNI), with interests in industry and distribution
UNIBANK and
its group of companies are authorized to operate throughout Haiti, and are
present in all of Haiti’s major cities. With (37) branches, UNIBANK has
Haiti’s largest branch network (21) in Port-au-Prince, the capital, and (16)
in (13) provincial cities). With close to 600,000 depositors, it has the
largest number of clients in the banking sector. UNIBANK and its affiliates
employ (1,536) people, of which (68) are in the USA and Canada. Its
subsidiary in the United States, UNITRANSFER, is licensed by the Banking
Departments of various states and presently does business in Florida, New
York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland,
Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, as well as in Canada. It provides
money remittance services to 200,000 Haitians abroad. Since its founding in
July 1993, UNIBANK is Haiti’s fastest-growing bank and has transformed
itself, without any mergers or acquisitions, into one of Haiti’s leading
financial institutions, ranking first or second in all important areas of
the banking business, with assets of US$550 million and a 30% market share.