Pierre Imhof is burdened with a problem that many bankers would envy.
By his own admission, the French-born chief executive of Baiduri Bank, the closest thing to a privately owned local bank in the autocratic and oil-drenched sultanate of Brunei, has too much cash on the books.
Take Baiduri’s financial statement for calendar 2016. Of the bank’s Br$3.13 billion ($2.3 billion) in assets reported that year, some Br$1.64 billion, or 53%, were in cash and short-term funds.
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