VOL. XXXI

NO. 2

19-OCTOBER-1987

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

Arab Saudi Bank Improves in First Half

The Bahrain-based Arab Saudi Bank, which was formed this year on the basis ofa reconstituted and renamed Arab Solidarity Bank, has increased its first halfperformance by recording a $0.7mn profit this year compared with only $0.1mnduring the equivalent period last year and an overall loss of $3.45mn for thewhole of 1986. The bank's previous management contract with the State Bank of...