VOL. XXXI

NO. 25

28-MARCH-1988

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

BMA Sets Guidelines for Sovereign Loan Provisioning

The Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA) has laid down a set of guidelines for allBahrain-incorporated banks (including local offshore banks) to determine theappropriate level of provisioning to be taken against sovereign loans which aresubject to rescheduling negotiations or have been non-performing. The BMAguidelines are very similar to the framework introduced last year by the...