Following a slight decline in market capitalisation in 2014, the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) is expected to benefit from a series of reforms that are currently being implemented by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), the sector regulator. This follows from a comprehensive restructuring of the bourse in the years following the 2007-08...
Like much of Kuwait’s financial services industry, the insurance sector has posted solid expansion in recent years on the back of growth in a handful of key areas, including takaful (sharia-compliant insurance) and other non-life segments. In 2014 Kuwait’s insurance sector as a whole brought in an estimated KD303m ($1.04bn) in gross...
Over the course of the past decade Kuwait has worked to shore up its longstanding reputation as a centre for Islamic financial services (IFS), leading to the rapid expansion of sharia-compliant banks and investment companies (ICs) in recent years. Islamic banking assets, which accounted for just over 20% of total banking sector assets in 2005...
THE COMPANY: Mabanee is a shareholding real estate firm that is widely recognised for owning The Avenues Mall. It was listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange in November 1999 and is currently the largest real estate company in the country, with a market capitalisation of KD824m ($2.84bn), representing...
THE COMPANY: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) was established in 1977 as the first Islamic financial institution in Kuwait providing banking services, purchase and sale of properties, leasing, project construction and other trading activities. The bank was listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange in 1984, and...
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