BANKING - More Arab banks eye local chances : Bank Audi first .. Dubai Islamic Bank to follow ?

Interest by Gulf lenders in Turkey’s Islamic banking market is on the rise, according to Adnan Ahmed Yusuf Abdulmalek, head of Union of Arab Banks

A customer walks past the main entrance of Bank Audi head office in Beirut. The lender owned by the Lebananese Sal-Audi Saradar Group has been the only foreign bank granted license to operate in Turkey in the last 14 years. (source)