VOL. XXXVI

NO. 10

7-DECEMBER-1992

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire: Kuwaiti in Banking the Mid-1990s

The shadow of insolvency which has hung over the Kuwaiti banking system formore than 10 years has been lifted by the government's multi-billion dollarbail-out, but it has been replaced by the prospect of stagnant earnings andminimal profitability lasting until the end of the decade. All Kuwaiti bankshave published their balance sheets for the end of...