VOL. XXXVI

NO. 22

1-MARCH-1993

Financial and Banking News

BANK RESULTS

Gulf International Bank Lifts Earnings as Long Term Prospects Improve

Bahrain-based Gulf International Bank (GIB) has declared profits of $63.7mnfor 1992, up 37% on 1991. The bank's profitability ratios also improvedsignificantly over the year. A dividend of $45mn is proposed, representing 10%of paid-in capital and 71% of net profits for the year. Overall, the bankappears to have recovered a sense of direction after several...