Sources: Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica (ANDES) and Ecuador bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Ecuador's Association of Private Banks (Asociación de Bancos Privados del Ecuador - ABPE) has announced that banks in Ecuador would be closed for the 2 upcoming days of previously-announced Carnival public holidays on Monday and Tuesday, March 3 and 4, 2014. [full story]