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Headline: Arab banking and finance – Banks feel little urge to merge Source: Euromoney Date: May 2000 Author: Nigel Dudley The aborted merger of two Gulf banks is a blow to regional consolidation, but it is only delaying the inevitable, as financial markets open up to foreign competition reports Nigel Dudley Most analysts and senior bankers in the Middle East have agreed for more than a decade that the region needs fewer banks. And they have argued that those remaining must be either large enough to compete with international financial institutions, in providing the services demanded by corporate customers, or be small banks targeted at niche sectors. |
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