Stock Exchange Projects Manager Issam Alusaimi speaks to Reuters in an interview in Kuwait City October 24, 2013. Kuwait's stock exchange plans to launch derivatives trading in the first half of 2014 using its new Nasdaq-backed trading system, Alusaimi told Reuters. Kuwait's bourse, one of the oldest in the Gulf region, launched the "X-stream" trading system in May last year at a cost of around 18.3 million Kuwaiti dinars ($65 million), part of its biggest technical overhaul in nearly two decades. Picture taken October 24, 2013. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee (KUWAIT - Tags: BUSINESS)