Thursday, 5 March 2009

Banks asked to be more self reliant

The Governor of the Central Bank has called on financial institutions to pay off their international debts and become more self-reliant.

“There will be a tendency to develop banking systems with 100 per cent reliance on local funding,” Sultan al Suwaidi said.

“At the moment, the UAE banking system is localising liabilities of banks; that is, getting rid of foreign interbank deposits.

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