Cuban bank to stop services to 'deadbeat'companies

CUBA - The Cuban Central Bank plans to suspend banking services to deadbeat Cuban companies effective in January 2002, a bank spokesman said.

Companies that do not meet set standards for charges and payments, will not be granted credit, Central Bank President Francisco Soberon said.

In an interview with the weekly newspaper Opciones, Soberon said half of the national companies in Cuba were not complying with "various measures," adding that as a result, the accounts of 60 national companies have