VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 49

4-SEPTEMBER-1995

Financial and Banking News

Regional Banking

Smaller Bahraini Banks Outperform Larger Competitors

In the first half of 1995, the Bahraini commercial banking sector haswitnessed the not-unusual phenomenon of its smaller and nimbler members stealinga march on their larger and longer-established cousins: the first half resultsconfirm the performances of 1994 as a whole, when the smaller banks, with oneexception, saw profits rise and the two larger institutions...