KUWAIT  - Kuwait Finance House will take a decision on the share pricing of a merger with Bahrain's Ahli United Bank within two weeks, KFH's chief executive Mazin Al-Nahedh said on Monday.

Bahrain's Ahli United Bank and Kuwait Finance House have been in merger talks since mid-2018, which could be the first cross-border tie-up between Gulf banks in recent years at a time when several other banks are consolidating.

(Reporting by Ahmed Hagagy; editing by David Evans) ((asma.alsharif@thomsonreuters.com; +20225783290; Reuters Messaging: asma.alsharif.reuters.com@reuters.net))