VOL. XXXVI

NO. 8

23-NOVEMBER-1992

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait to Eliminate Accumulated Losses

The directors of Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait (BBK), Bahrain's second largestcommercial bank, are proposing that institutional shareholders take a sharewrite down so that the bank can eliminate nearly all of its accumulated lossesbefore the start of next year. Shareholders were expected to approve thedirectors' proposal at an extraordinary meeting on 22 November....