VOL. XXXV

NO. 32

11-MAY-1992

Financial and Banking News

Regional Banking

Bahrain's Offshore Banks Reassess Their Future

The decline of Bahrain's offshore banking market is forcing some banks totake hard decisions about their future. Some of the locally-incorporated banksare heading towards closure, while others have been taken over by newshareholders. The expected restructuring of Kuwait's financial market willalso have an important bearing on the off-shore scene, since Kuwaitiinstitutions hold...