Equity Investment in Afghanistan International Bank

The validation concurs with these issues and would also add that uncertainty remains regarding the Afghanistan private sector‘s overall ability to absorb credit even when available. Another uncertainty is AIB‘s ability to make up, through increased regular lending to private customers and investing in alternative assets overseas, for the inevitable loss of special situations of the sort (e.g. a sharp reduction in the US army deposits), which had provided AIB some measure of its financial success vis-à-vis very wide interest spreads gained by investing idle US Army cash balances in 12+%.