Monday 2 November 2009

Gulf bankers call for stronger oversight

Gulf economies need more regulation to strengthen the banking system and stave off a repeat of the financial crisis, regional bank chiefs said in Kuwait.

“The promotion of financial stability is the duty of decision makers because it is evident that banks cannot be relied upon to do that,” Mohammed al Jasser, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s central bank, said at the Kuwait Financial Forum.

“In other words, self-supervision is no supervision.”

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