VOL. XXXIX

No. 39

24-June-1996

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Banks Profits Continue To ImproveIn First Quarter1996

The trend towards a narrowing in the disparate performancesof the Saudi banking sector continued in the first quarterof 1996 as the laggards of previous yearscontinued tocatch up - albeit slowly - with the high-fliers. The mostimmediately noticeable feature of the first quarter is thepublication for the first time of quarterlyfinancialstatements by the largest bank in the Kingdom, National...