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UAE- Burgan Bank plans 74.8m rights issue
(MENAFN- Arab News) DUBAI: Burgan Bank Kuwait's third-largest lender by assets will launch a 21.6 million dinars ($74.8 million) rights issue by the end of 2014 pending regulatory approvals it said in a bourse filing on Sunday.
Burgan said it plans to issue 216 million new shares and that the rights issue will raise its paid-up capital to 197.18 million dinars.
This would indicate that shares would be priced at 0.1 dinars in the rights issue a significant discount to the 0.54 dinars the stock closed at on Thursday.
The shares will be available to existing shareholders on a proportional basis and any unsold shares will then be put on general sale the bank said in the statement.
Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO) which owns a 57.94 percent stake in Burgan had said in September that it received approval from the country's central bank to increase its stake in the lender by 5 percent.
Burgan said it plans to issue 216 million new shares and that the rights issue will raise its paid-up capital to 197.18 million dinars.
This would indicate that shares would be priced at 0.1 dinars in the rights issue a significant discount to the 0.54 dinars the stock closed at on Thursday.
The shares will be available to existing shareholders on a proportional basis and any unsold shares will then be put on general sale the bank said in the statement.
Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO) which owns a 57.94 percent stake in Burgan had said in September that it received approval from the country's central bank to increase its stake in the lender by 5 percent.
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