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Notes Chapter IX
Banking and Finance

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Sources for this chapter: Beers, Dekker (Chapter 2), Emmanuel & Emmanuel (especially pp. 472-7), Gomes Casseres (1990;1991b), Hartog (1962: Chapter 7), van Soest (1978), A. Römer (especially Chapters 4 & 5), R. Römer (1991).

Van Soest (1978), p. ix.

Van Soest (1978) is the major source for this section, with some information also from Emmanuel & Emmanuel (Chapter 14) and Hartog (1968: Chapter 9).

Van Soest (1978), pp. 19-20.

Ibid, p. 20.

Ibid, p. 200.

Ibid, p. 15.

Ibid, p. 207,

The main sources for this section are van Soest (1978), Gomes Casseres (1991b) and R. Römer (1991).

For a complete history of the Central Bank through 1978, set in the context of the island's overall economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, see van Soest (1978), which is the source of most of the information in this section.

Quoted in van Soest (1978), p. 134.

Quoted in van Soest (1978), p. 216.

Ibid, pp. 249-50.

Van Soest (1978), Gomes Casseres (1991b) and R. Römer (1991) are the main sources for this section.

For a detailed history of Maduro & Curiel's Bank in the context of Curaçao's twentieth century development, see Gomes Casseres (1991b), R. Römer (1991) and de Haseth.

Van Soest (1978), p. 257.

R. Römer (1991), p. 129.

Internal bank correspondence, quoted in van Soest (1978), p. 276.

Major sources for this section: A. Römer, van Soest (1978).

R. Römer (1991), p. 102.

For more information, see A. Römer, pp. 28-32.

Major sources for this section: A. Römer (especially pp. 89-90 & 108-112) and van Soest (1978).

Van Soest (1978), p. 278.

For a full discussion of the credit unions, see Henk Middlebrink, 'Basta papia, ban purba,' De geschiedenis van de Credit Unions op Curaçao, 1958-1971; Machtsvorming en legitimatie in een organisatie van Rooms Catholieken. Unpublished thesis, Free University of Amsterdarn, (Amsterdam, the Netherlands: 1988.)

Major sources for this section: Hagen, Smeets, Studieproject 1990, Vanoorbeek.

De Haseth, p. 167.

Vanoorbeek, p. 9.

Ibid.

Gomes Casseres (1976), p. 28.

Vanoorbeek, p. 9.

Sources: de Pool (pp. 330-332), Emmanuel & Emmanuel (p. 360), Goslinga (1992), Prunetti Winkel, van Soest (1978).

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