KUWAIT - The initial public offering for the remaining 50 percent of shares in the Kuwaiti bourse will take place in the fourth quarter of 2019 or the first quarter of 2020, said Abdulaziz AlMarzouq, commissioner of the Capital Markets Authority and vice chairman of the bourse's privatization committee.

On Thursday, a consortium led by Kuwait's National Investment Co. and including the Athens bourse won a tender to acquire 44 percent of the Kuwait stock exchange.

(Reporting by Ahmed Hagagy; Editing by Mark Potter) ((Nafisa.Eltahir@thomsonreuters.com;))