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A Single Gulf Market Needs a Single Gulf Regulator

Six rulebooks and one currency peg is not integration. It is a shared inconvenience.

Khalid Al-Sater

Published 13 July 2026, 13:11 · Updated 6:30

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A Single Gulf Market Needs a Single Gulf Regulator

Six rulebooks and one currency peg is not integration. It is a shared inconvenience.

Reporting for this story was carried out in Manama over the past week. Officials spoke on the record unless otherwise noted.

This article will be updated as further detail is confirmed.

Khalid Al-Sater

I follow Bahraini politics and the wider Gulf.

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