VOL. XXXVI

NO. 26

29-MARCH-1993

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

Libya to Allow Private Banks

Libya is to allow the formation of privately-owned banks for the first timesince all commercial banks were nationalized in 1970. The new law, whichspecifies that new banks must have a minimum capital of LD10mn ($37mn), waspublished by the official news agency on 23 March.