Monday, March 19, 2018

European Bank buys 2.5 percent of Bank Audi. $65 million deal is part of support package to the financial market


The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has acquired 2.51 percent of Bank Audi's overall outstanding common shares, for a total of $65 million.

The shares were bought on the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE).

Bank Audi's shareholders' equity stood at $4.2 billion as at the end of 2017.

"This [investment] marks the EBRD's first-ever investment in Lebanon, and its first equity investment in a banking institution in the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) r...

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