Seperate as they may be, they are still controlled by Scotiabank and they helped Scotiabank to a record quarter as of the last report. Their Caribbean assets and banking are paying off huge (they are also in Haiti) and many other nations in the Caribbean basin area, more recently in Costa Rica.
Seperate as they may be they are still the same. Same logo, same bank, same huge profits.....the only difference is you can't go complaining to Canada about them if you don't like the service down here. Apart from that they are exactly the same bank. They are not really different at all.