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Seven Kuwaiti banks among 1000 largest banks in world

Finance Kuwait City 29 Aug 22
Seven Kuwaiti banks among 1000 largest banks in world
Kuwait ranked fourth in terms of the number of banks that entered the list of the largest 1000 banks in the world.
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Kuwait, Kuwait
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Kuwait City
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29 August 2022, 12:00 AM
End Time
30 September 2022, 12:00 AM
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The Secretary-General of the Union of Arab Banks, Dr. Wissam Fattouh, stated that according to an analytical study issued by the General Secretariat of the Union, Kuwait ranked fourth in terms of the number of banks that entered the list of the largest 1000 banks in the world, with 7 Kuwaiti banks on the list, topped by the National Bank of Kuwait, the Kuwait Finance House, Burgan Bank, the Gulf Bank, the Commercial Bank of Kuwait, Al-Ahli Bank and the Kuwait Industrial Bank, reports Al-Rai daily.

The total core capital of these banks amounts to about $29.8 billion, and they also manage assets estimated at $272.4 billion, pointing out that the financial data available to Arab banks for the end of 2021 show that 72 Arab banks entered the mentioned list.

UAE recorded the largest number of Arab banks that entered the list of the largest 1000 banks in the world, as 14 Emirati banks were included in it, followed by Saudi Arabia (10 banks), Bahrain and Qatar (8 banks), then Egypt and Kuwait (7 banks each).

Fattouh pointed out that there are 18 Arab Islamic banks in the list of the largest 1000 banks in the world according to the basic capital for the year 2021, distributed as follows — 4 Islamic banks for each of the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 3 Islamic banks in Kuwait, two banks in Bahrain, and one bank in Egypt, indicating that the study he prepared is based on data issued by ‘The Banker’ magazine during the month of July 2022, which includes the 1000 largest banks in the world according to Tier 1 capital by the end of 2021.

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