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А Kookmin тем временем купил 30% БЦК.
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SEOUL, Mar 17 (Reuters) - South Korea's Kookmin Bank
<060000.KS> said on Monday it would buy a 30 percent stake in
mid-size Kazakh bank CenterCredit <CCBN.KZ> for $623 million and
raise its holding to more than half over the next few years.
The deal would be Kookmin's first major cross-border
acquisition after a consortium including Kookmin bought a
controlling stake in Indonesia's sixth-largest lender, PT Bank
Internasional Indonesia Tbk <BNII.JK> in 2003.
It would also provide Kookmin <060000.KS> <KB.N>, the
country's top retail lender, a foothold in the Commonwealth of
Independent States as it tries to expand overseas and reduce its
reliance on interest income at home.
"Through the stake purchase, we will enter the CIS region and
will secure future growth momentum," Kookmin said in a filing
with the Korea Exchange.
"After wrapping up the transaction, we will expand our
shareholding to more than 50.1 percent within 30 months."
The shares would be bought on the Kazak stock exchange, but
Kookmin did not reveal a timeframe for the completion of the
on-the-market transaction.
A signing ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday in Kazakhstan,
Kookmin spokesman Choi In-seok said by telephone.
An industry source says Kookmin is being advised by a
boutique firm in Kazakhstan on the stake purchase.
Other South Korean banks, including Shinhan Financial Group
<055550.KS> and Hana Financial Group <086790.KS>, have been
opening overseas units in Asia, looking for new opportunities as
they face stalled lending growth and stiff competition at home.
Separately, Kookmin said last week it could buy shares in
Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII) from Singapore fund Temasek,
which would give it a controlling stake in the Indonesian lender.
Temasek [TEM.UL], which has stakes in two Indonesian banks,
is trying to sell its 42 percent share in BII to comply with a
new central bank rule that prevents foreign investors from owning
more than one bank in Southeast Asia's biggest economy.
($1=997.1 Won)
(Reporting by Kim Yeon-hee; Editing by Kim Coghill)
((yeonhee.kim@reuters.com; +82 2 3704 5646; Reuters Messaging:
yeonhee.kim.reuters.com@reuters.net))