Kuwait’s Warba Bank has hired banks to arrange fixed income investor meetings ahead of a potential sale of five-year U.S. dollar denominated sukuk, or Islamic bonds, a document issued by one of the banks showed.
BNP Paribas, Emirates NBD Capital, and Standard Chartered were hired as joint global coordinators. Other banks on the deal are Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, Bank ABC, Dubai Islamic Bank, NBK Capital and QNB Capital.
Warba, 34% owned by the state of Kuwait, will meet investors in Asia, UAE and London from Sept. 12, the document showed.
Warba Bank has received the Kuwaiti Capital Markets Authority’s (CMA) approval to issue sukuk at a value not exceeding $500 million at the beginning of the month.
The issuance is part of a sukuk programme at a maximum value of $2 billion, the bank said in a statement to Boursa Kuwait.
Source Reuters