FINANCIAL SERVICES ARE a growth industry in the Gulf, with major financial centres being developed and previously closed economies modernizing investment laws and opening up to foreign banks.
The boom that the region has been enjoying thanks to high oil prices has blown a breath of fresh air through financial systems. Words like liberalization, modernization and competition are today being used to describe developments in markets that used to be determinedly hostile to direct foreign participation.
Changes to licensing regimes in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are allowing foreign entrants to establish themselves for the first time since the nationalizations of the 1970s.
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