New bank salutes girl power

.........The bank — which will be governed by a board of directors comprising eight women — is arguably the first of its kind in the world. Many banks in the Gulf and in the West have experimented with women-only branches. Bank Melli in Iran opened a women-only branch with great fanfare at Mashhad in June 2010. Dubai Islamic Bank opened a similar branch in 2001. And in 1964, the National Commercial Bank opened a women’s branch in Scotland where “you would need more than a ravishing smile to win an overdraft”. But it would be hard to find an entire bank with multiple branches that’s run by women alone............

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