It may even seem like a minor job for the elder statesman of finance, former executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission, and top executive of leading Jamaica financial institution, National Commercial Bank for 35 years, yet it is anything but that.
Shirley, whose mother gave him the Christian name Andral at birth several years ago, became the head honcho at Dolla Financial mere months ago at a time when the novel coronavirus forced the global world to sit up and take note.
“Since Dolla's results are a big part of the holding company First Rock's results, everything that we do have to fall in line as a regulated entity,” Shirley told the Jamaica Observer in an interview last week.
Describing NCB, from which he went on pre-retirement leave in 2000 after serving as general manager of the main branch, as the “best training school”, Shirley went on to head three other banks before he took on the job of running the BGLC day to day from 2013 to 2016, after a change in the Government.
The company, according to Shirley, has no loan ceiling, and even if the need arises to lend a client $50 million, for example, Dolla's parent company would make the funds available.
