Event Overview & Outcomes The IGM200 National Sensitisation Seminar, “Do You Want Investment in Your Business?”, marked a pivotal milestone in the programme’s delivery, successfully translating national awareness into structured SME engagement. Held at the Hilton Barbados Resort on 4 November 2025, the…

The overarching objective of the IGM – SME Project, formally titled “Promoting Access to Equity Financing to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises through the Innovation and Growth Market of the Barbados Stock Exchange”, is to encourage and facilitate the listing of Barbadian SMEs on…

The Innovation Growth Market (aka the IGM200) At 2:00 p.m. on Day Two (4th December), the IGM200 room (at the Hilton Resort Barbados) shifted. The workshop moved from discussion to demonstration — from theory to reality — as three SMEs stepped forward for…

The Innovation Growth Market (aka the IGM200) For many Barbadians, investing in local businesses has traditionally meant supporting them as customers. The Innovation and Growth Market (IGM) of the Barbados Stock Exchange is changing that — offering the public a structured, regulated way…

Context Matters! Day Two of the IGM200 “Your Investment Ready” Workshop opened not with tactics, but with perspective. In an address delivered by Alwyn Jordan of the Central Bank of Barbados, participants were invited to step back from individual business challenges and consider…