VOL. XXXI

NO. 38

27-JUNE-1988

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

Al Baraka Finally Succeeds in Buying Pyramids Bank

The Jiddah-based Al-Baraka Investment and Development Company, which isowned by Shaikh Salih Kamel and which is the holding company for the world-wideAl-Baraka group of Islamic banks, has finally succeeded in buying Egypt'scrippled Pyramids Bank. Al-Baraka first expressed its interest in PyramidsBank in 1985, two years after the bank was damaged by a scandal and put under...