The Bahraini Islamic finance industry is well-developed, and Fitch Ratings expects continued growth in 2024–2025, driven by banking sector consolidations, bottom-up demand, sukuk’s growing role in diversifying government funding and meeting fiscal deficits, and increasingly enabling regulations. Fitch rates over 80% of the US dollar sukuk outstanding from Bahrain (USD11.4 billion), with 90.3% rated ‘B+’ at end-2023.
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