Bahrain’s banking sector outperformed its regional peers in monthly credit growth and held the highest profit margins in the GCC during the first quarter of 2026, according to a new report analysing 55 listed regional lenders.
Kuwait-based Kamco Invest found that despite a highly volatile global macroeconomic environment driven by the Middle East war and resurgent global inflation, Bahrain posted the strongest monthly credit expansion in the region for April 2026, surging 1 .
