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Oct 12 2011

Lebanon Bank Audi Gets OK To List 1M Additional GDRs Friday

Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011

BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)-- Bank Audi , Lebanon's biggest lender by assets, has received approval from the Beirut Stock Exchange to list 1 million additional global depositary receipts, or GDRs, the bourse said Wednesday.

The GDRs will be listed and allowed to begin trading starting Friday, Oct. 14, the Beirut bourse said in a statement posted on its website.

The bank converted in September 1 million of its common shares into GDRs, which will bring the overall number of its listed GDRs to about 99.58 million, according to the statement.

The lender, also known as Audi Saradar Group , saw its common shares close 0.5% higher at $5.99 in an overall flat market Wednesday amid low trading volumes.

-By Shikrallah Nakhoul, Zawya Dow Jones, +961 1 985757, shikrallah@zawya.com

Copyright (c) 2011 Dow Jones & Co.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

12-10-11 1323GMT

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