Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

BKME Proposes Five Plus Five 

The Bank of Kuwait and the Middle East (BKME) was the first of the commercial banks in Kuwait to propose a distribution of profits last week when it announced a five percent dividend together with a five percent bonus issue. Apart from BKME, only Burgan Bank and the Kuwait Finance House had announced their intentions, which in both cases were to retain all profits for their reserves.