VOL. XLVI

No 5

3-February-2003

SYRIA

Syria Needs To Take More Measures To Attract Private Banks

The Syrian government has to do more to create the necessary business and legal environment for attracting private banks to Syria. This was the message from the Lebanese-Syrian banking conference which was held on 25-26 January in Damascus. While a number of speakers acknowledged the measures taken by the government towards reforming and liberalizing the banking sector in the past two years, they warned...