Access Financial Services (AFS) has appointed Dr. Tamiko Sadler and Johann Heaven to its Board of Directors, following Bank of Jamaica approval. This move expands the board to seven members and increases independent leadership to three directors, enhancing corporate governance. With Sadler’s expertise in commercial banking and Heaven’s leadership at PROVEN Management Ltd, AFS is poised to drive shareholder value and maintain its position as a leader in the microfinance sector

In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, Shawnalee King-Gentles is championing a crucial cause: closing the credit gap for women. As the CEO of Ayuhthat, she’s seen firsthand how 80% of female entrepreneurs struggle to secure loans. Now, bolstered by the Herizon loan from Access Financial Services, she’s scaling her Jamaican black castor oil business and advocating for a shift in how we fund the backbone of our economy. Supporting women isn’t just fair—it’s the key to Jamaica’s reco

ACCESS Financial Services Limited is pushing further up the small-business lending curve with the launch of Herizon – Women in Business, a new loan product aimed at established, female-led enterprises seeking between $5 million and $30 million in growth capital. Rolled out officially last week, Herizon targets a segment that Access says has long fallen into a financing gap — businesses that have moved beyond start-up phase but still struggle to secure mid-size loans from trad

In support of the mission to raise awareness and fund testing and treatment for breast cancer patients, employees of Access Financial Services (AFS) came big at last Sunday’s (November 16, 2025) ICWI/Jamaica Reach to Recovery Pink Run. For Team Access, the event represented more than corporate participation but was an opportunity to champion health equity, stand with survivors, and help ease the financial and emotional burden carried by so many Jamaican families.

The Board of Directors of Access Financial Services (AFS) Limited has advised that the company’s 16th Annual General Meeting (AGM) which was scheduled for Thursday, October 30, 2025, has been postponed due to the passage of Hurricane Melissa.

At 19, Alfred Fuller's journey from selling sweets at school to fund his education has earned him the inaugural $750,000 AFS Marcus James Scholarship. Growing up in a single-parent home in Bog Walk, the St Jago High alumnus often chose between bus fare and family needs. Now studying business at UTech, he dreams of enterprises combining profit with purpose, including platforms connecting farmers to consumers and affordable study materials for students.

Access Financial Services Limited (“AFS”) wishes to advise that the submission of its Audited Financial Statements for the year ended...

Geraldine Gordon Ferron has long dreamt about expanding her business Small business owner Geraldine Gordon Ferron is eager to elevate her...

With a cash donation of $250,000 to the Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS) and staff engagement activities to promote breast cancer awareness,...

Entrepreneur Valrie Brooks proudly displays one of her delectable creations. Brompton, St Elizabeth-based baker and entrepreneur Valrie...

From left: Access Financial Services (AFS) marketing and communications manager, Nicholas Mundell; Mayfield Primary and Infant School...

ACCESS Financial has been named a Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) long service awards recipient as the microlender marks 15 years on JSE

Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) Chief Executive Officer Valerie Veira (centre) and Access Financial Services (AFS) Chief...

We did it! Access Financial Services (AFS) employees, teachers and parents of the Josephine Glasspole Basic School celebrated a job well...

Left to right: Public relations officer of the Mandeville Police Youth Club Ann-Alice Channer, treasurer Dalton Banton and club president...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon Fayval Williams (left) join the principal of Danny Williams School for the Deaf Heidi-Ann...

Access Financial Services (AFS) team members celebrate the teaching staff of the Josephine Glasspole Basic School (JGBS) on Teachers Day....

Small business owners and customers of Access Financial Services (AFS) celebrate their Women in Business Awards with the AFS management...

At the age when many people are looking to slow down, 60-year-old small farmer Icilda Brown has no immediate plans to take her foot off...

Besides the scars of physical abuse from her childhood, beauty salon owner Pauline Scott bears little sign of the trauma she endured at...