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Middle EastDecember 2 2003

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While Iranian banks are deregulating and expanding abroad, foreign players are still constrained by regulation, as Stephen Timewell reports from Tehran.
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As barriers for the private sector are being abolished, Iranian banks

are in the process of taking creative banking initiatives abroad. In

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