Monday, Aug 13, 2007

BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)-- Kuwait Turkish Evkaf Finance House and Bahrain's Kuwait Finance House have signed a Murabaha financing facility worth $60 million with Von Leissing, a unit of Turkey's Ulker, the Kuwait-based Al Qabas daily reported Monday.

Von Leissing will use the money to fund its expansion plans.

Kuwait's publicly listed KFH owns 100% of KFH-Bahrain and has a 62% stake in KTEFH.

Newspaper Web site: http://www.alqabas.com.kw

-By Beirut Bureau, Zawya Dow Jones; +961-1-985 757; BeirutZDJ@zawya.com

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