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Kingdom of Bahrain: Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics, Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervision, Securities Regulation, and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism

March 6, 2006

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International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department "Kingdom of Bahrain: Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics, Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervision, Securities Regulation, and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism", IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 091 (2006), accessed July 12, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451804607.002

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The Kingdom of Bahrain’s Financial System Stability Assessment highlights banking supervision, insurance supervision, securities regulation, and antimoney laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. The banking sector is well capitalized. Asset quality has been improving and provisioning is high. Profitability surged in 2004–05, but historically, return on equity has been moderate for many institutions. Favorable liquidity conditions have caused regional equity and real estate markets to surge. Consumer lending has grown rapidly, although it slowed in 2005 following a tightening of loan to income limits.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Financial Sector, Insurance, Insurance companies, Securities

Keywords: Bahrain, Bank, Banking sector, BMA Law, Commercial banks, CR, Financial institution, Financial sector, Financial system, Global, Insurance, Insurance companies, ISCR, Liquid asset, Return on equity, Securities, U.S. dollar

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