VOL. XL

No. 34

25-August-1997

BAHRAIN

Thomson BankWatch Assigns Rating To BBK

The US Ratings agency Thomson Bankwatch announced on 19 August that it has assignedBahrain-based Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait (BBK) an Intra-Country Issuer Rating of C and aShort-Term Local Currency Debt rating of 1 (CI-C, LC-1). The agency said that BBK is"undergoing broad changes to enhance coordination among its relatively diverseoperationsThe bank maintains ample capital and loan loss reserves to support abalance...