published: Wednesday | November 12, 2008 The Financial Services Commission, New Kingston. - File Rohan Barnett, an attorney who up to this year, worked with the world's largest bank, Citigroup, has been handed the job of running the Financial Services Commission (FSC), Finance Minister Audley Shaw announced Tuesday. Securities dealers did not imme-diately react to the appointment, saying Barnett's background was unknown to them. "I am not familiar with him, thus cannot comment at this time," said president of the Jamaica Securities Dealers Association Anya Schnoor. Barnett, a Jamaican by birth and attorney by profession, takes up his new job on December 1, a year after Bryan Wynter left the agency to take up a new job in Barbados. Securities sector George Roper, who was Wynter's chief deputy and pointman on the securities...
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