31.   The largest country in Africa, Sudan, is however, still seeking investments from Malaysia to tap its natural resources and further develop the housing and banking sectors.

32.   The island relies on one luxury hotel, the Four Seasons resort, and its fledgling off-shore banking sector to feed the local economy.

33.   The market also gained on buying in the utility, retail and banking sectors.

34.   The minister earlier told coalition leaders that the government had to speed up privatization and restructure the public banking sector, private television NTV reported.

35.   The purporse of the bill is to modernize financial laws and to give the Central Bank sweeping powers to regulate banking sector.

36.   The study said the percentage of national employees in the U.A.E. banking sector was the lowest among the six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

37.   The U.S. has been pushing Japan to implement sweeping banking sector reforms designed to address bad loan problems and reverse a cycle of weakening investor and consumer confidence.

38.   The use of international standards can contribute to financial stability and a sound banking sector.

39.   Under the current circumstances, this requires a huge financial cushion, rescheduling of external debts, restructuring the commercial banking sector and ending sub-standard governance.

40.   What was at stake was international confidence in the Indonesian banking sector.