{"id":32816,"date":"2020-10-28T10:09:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tabadul.demo.ly\/en\/the-finance-and-banking-sector-in-libya-suffers\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:09:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:09:33","slug":"the-finance-and-banking-sector-in-libya-suffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/the-finance-and-banking-sector-in-libya-suffers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The finance and banking sector in Libya suffers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The banking expert, Haytham Al-Abidi, confirmed during a televised interview for Libyan WTV channel and Tabadul Platform,&nbsp;that the&nbsp;finance and banking sector suffers from weaknesses in the efficiency of the&nbsp;credit management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &nbsp; Al-Abidi said a decline in profit of about 56%&nbsp;has been registered during the second quarter of 2020, compared to the second quarter.&nbsp; &nbsp;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The quantum leap registered in 2017 was due to currency appreciation and high foreign sales services.&#8221; He said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8221; There is a high concentration in the banking market&#8230; As monopolization becomes higher, services and quality become lower in these banks.&#8221;  The banking  expert confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &#8221; During the second quarter of 2020, the clearing accounts&nbsp;rose about 50 %, while the debt ratio reached 21% against the global rate, which is estimated at 5 %.&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the expert, the economic growth is linked to the volume of funding and its means. Nevertheless, the banks have assets exceeding 70 billion, which&nbsp;is a great source of financing in the development process and the economic growth as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Abidi added that the banking concentration was found in 4 state-owned banks, or only a part of them belonging to the state. These banks are; the Jumhouria Bank, the National Commercial Bank, the Wahda Bank and the Sahara Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &#8220;According to the World Bank&#8217;s latest statistics, the&nbsp;financial and banking sector in Libya represents about 80 % of the financial industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &#8220;The&nbsp;sector&nbsp;is&nbsp;composed of&nbsp;specialized&nbsp;commercial banks, in addition to non-banking financial institutions. We have 19 banks, 4 of which are specialized and are not subject to the Central Bank&#8217;s supervision. We also have 2  &nbsp;Executive Offices for Arab and foreign banks, in addition to 9 non-banking financial institutions.&#8221; Haytham Al-Abidi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The banking expert, Haytham Al-Abidi, confirmed during a televised interview for Libyan WTV channel and Tabadul Platform,&nbsp;that the&nbsp;finance and banking sector suffers from weaknesses in the efficiency of the&nbsp;credit management. &nbsp; Al-Abidi said a decline in profit of about 56%&nbsp;has been registered during the second quarter of 2020, compared to the second quarter.&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9271],"tags":[10835],"class_list":["post-32816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-banking-sectorbanking-servicescurrencyeconomic-growthlibyamonopolization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}