VOL. XXXI

NO. 37

20-JUNE-1988

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

New Al-Rajbi Bank Seen as Major Challenge to Saudi Banks

As the public share offer for the new Al-Rajhi Banking and InvestmentCorporation (ARBIC) is enthusiastically taken up by the investing public in theKingdom - an ARBIC spokesman last week predicted a six to seven foldoversubscription for the SR122.5mn offer, which ends this week - a recentlycompleted study has called the new bank "the greatest challenge to befaced by the...