VOL. XXXVII

NO. 9

29-NOVEMBER-1993

Financial and Banking News

Regional Financing

Banks Shortlisted For Kuwait's PIC Underwriting Role

About five banks have been shortlisted to take an arranging/underwriting rolein financing the new petrochemical complex to be built by Kuwait's PetrochemicalIndustries Company (PIC). The shortlist is believed to include ChaseManhattan, Barclays, J.P. Morgan, Chemical and a French bank. The total projectcost is now expected to be around $2bn rather than the $2.45bn...