How to read the outlook for Kuwait and its banking sector? Positive: vast oil wealth, managed, in large part, by one of the world’s most respected sovereign wealth funds. Negative: collapsed oil prices and a dramatically increased break-even cost for the budget, creating a burden on planned spending.
Positive: a sense of progress, at long last, on Kuwait’s much-heralded mega-projects. Negative: familiar problems of inertia and bureaucracy preventing more getting underway.
Positive: the creation of a capital markets regulator and grand ambitions of building a financial hub.
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