Friday 29 April 2011

FT.com - UAE still nurses wounds from its financial crisis

The United Arab Emirates may be coming out a winner of the Middle Eastern unrest as it welcomes bankers and investors burnt in Bahrain and north Africa.

But lingering weakness in its banking sector is a reminder that the Gulf state still nurses its own wounds from its 2008-9 financial and real estate crisis.

Local banks’ liquidity and capital levels are gradually improving, as are levels of provisioning for bad loans, analysts say.

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