VOL. XXXII

NO. 42

24-JULY-1989

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

GIB Half-Year Profits Rise 10.6%

The Bahrain-based Gulf International Bank (GIB), which is jointly owned bythe six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Iraq, lastweek declared a 1989 half-year after-tax profit of $28.1mn, up 10.6% from the1988 half-year profit of $25.4mn, according to the bank's unaudited half-yearresults. The improvement in profit was attributed to an increase of $2.2mn innet interest,...