(Source: Middle East Company News)In a significant step to promote Bahrain as a pioneering financial hub and to provide commercial banks and financial institutions operating in Bahrain with more promising investment alternatives that would alludes them to utilities their liquidity, The Central Bank of Bahrain is set, on behalf of the government of the kingdom of Bahrain, to introduce the first issue of development bonds, planned to be issued on 12 November 2009.

Media contact:External Communications UnitCentral Bank of BahrainTel: +973 1754 7357Fax: +973 1753 5904P.O. Box 27 Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain

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