VOL. XXXII

NO. 28

17-APRIL-1989

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

SB Profits Recover as Provisions Drop

The London-based consortium bank Saudi International Bank (SIB), which is 50%owned by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), has recorded a 8.1mn profitin 1988, after losing 35mn the previous year. The recovery came about as aresult of the completion of a program of selling and providing for sovereignloans to rescheduling countries, which resulted in a provisioning charge of only7mn...