Boubyan Bank starts rights issue
Kuwait's Boubyan Bank has launched a major rights issue aimed at raising its capital by 50% to KD174.9m ($609.4m), AFP has reported. The rights issue of 583 million new shares to raise KD148.6m ($518m) will continue until February 7, 2010 and is open to current shareholders only, the Islamic lender said in a statement.




