Kuwait bail-out limited to healthy companies

Central bank governor of Kuwait speaks of a more restrained support plan for the investment sector.

Insolvent investment companies in Kuwait will have to look for aid from their shareholders, not the state, central bank governor Salem Al Sabah has said. A draft bill containing clauses to help Kuwait¹s troubled sector of investment companies is due to be passed through Kuwait¹s notoriously uncooperative parliament. But Sabah says that although solvent investment companies will be provided with liquidity, insolvent ones will have to turn to their shareholders.

Sabah was speaking at a Euromoney Islamic Finance summit in London earlier this week.

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