VOL. XXXII

NO. 49

11-SEPTEMBER-1989

Financial and Banking News

LOANS AND ISSUES

Italian Bank Scandal Focuses Attention on Iraqi Export Credits

A scandal at the Italian state-controlled Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL)has focused attention on Iraq's access to officially backed export credits.BNL's Atlanta branch in the US has been discovered to have extended a total of$2.64bn worth of unauthorized and undocumented credits covering US and Europeanexporters to Iraq. Of the total amount, $920mn is...