KUWAIT, 19 October 2005 — Kuwait’s largest bank, National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), said yesterday it entered the Chinese market through a representative office in Shanghai. CEO Ibrahim Dabdoub said in a statement that NBK opened the office to take advantage of China’s economic growth. NBK, which has assets of $20 billion, has branches, representative offices and subsidiaries in London, Geneva, Paris, New York, Singapore, Vietnam, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq.