Reference to the Capital Markets Authority's Regulations concerning Disclosure of Substantial Information and Disclosure mechanism and to Chapter 4, Book (10), Article 4-5 of the Executive Bylaws issued on 9/11/2015. Reference also to the email received from Kuwait Stock Exchange today Wednesday 05/04/2017 inquiring about the unusual activity on our Bank’s shares taking place on 05/04/2017.

Our Bank confirms that no developments happened that may have an effect on the Bank’s share price or trading volume in the same manner that resulted in having such unusual activity.