Green signal: Bank Alkhair gets nod to sell stake in Pakistan’s Burj Bank

BAHRAIN: Bahrain-based Bank Alkhair said Wednesday it had received approval from the central bank of Pakistan to sell its stake in Pakistan’s Burj Bank to a subsidiary of Bahrain’s Al Baraka Banking Group.

Al Baraka, one of the Gulf’s top Islamic banks, had said in September that its Pakistani unit, Al Baraka Pakistan, would merge with Burj Bank to create an institution with assets totalling more than $1.1 billion.

Bank Alkhair is an Islamic bank with a presence in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Malaysia and Turkey.

Burj Bank, one of Pakistan’s five full-fledged Islamic banks, attracted interest from several Pakistani institutions and short-listed three to conduct due diligence before agreeing to the merger with Al Baraka.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 15^th, 2016.

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