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Arab Capital to Set up Offshore Bank in Tunisia 

An offshore banking unit to be known as the Arab World Bank is to be set up by a group of Arab businessmen and bankers in Tunisia with an authorized capital of $150mn and a subscribed capital of $100mn, of which $25mn is to be paid in initially and the remaining $75mn over a five-year period. So far a total of $80mn has been pledged toward the bank's subscribed capital by shareholders...