Native name | Urdu: فیصل بینک لمیٹڈ |
|---|---|
| Company type | Public |
| PSX: FABL | |
| Industry | Islamic banking |
| Founded | 3 October 1994 |
| Headquarters | Karachi, Pakistan |
Key people | |
| Products | Islamic banking, loans, consumer banking, business banking, priority banking, credit cards, debit cards, savings |
| Revenue |  Rs. 83.142 billion (US$290 million)
[1] (2023) |
| Rs. 41.422 billion (US$140 million)
[1] (2023) | |
| Rs. 20.046 billion (US$69 million)
[1] (2023) | |
| Total assets | Rs. 1.370 trillion (US$4.7 billion)
[1] (2023) |
| Total equity | Rs. 90.198 billion (US$310 million)
[1] (2023) |
Number of employees | 8,787 [1] (2023) |
| Parent | KSA Holdings |
| Website |
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Faysal Bank Limited is a Pakistani Islamic bank, a subsidiary of KSA Holdings, the ultimate parent of bank is KSA Holdings and Ithmaar Bank, [2] based in Karachi, Pakistan. [3] It is named after Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud.
Faysal Bank has over 700+ branches across 270+ cities in Pakistan.
History
Faysal Bank started in Pakistan in October 1987, with a tiny branch and as a subsidiary of Faysal Islamic Bank, a Bahraini bank owned by Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud, the son of the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. [4]
It was incorporated in Pakistan on 3 October 1994, as a public limited company under the Companies Ordinance, 1984. ABN AMRO Bank Pakistan, a predecessor to Faysal Bank, acquired Prime Commercial Bank consisting of 69 branches and spanning 24 cities in 2007 for US$227 million to expand its loan and deposit base. [5]
In June 2010, Royal Bank of Scotland sold its Pakistan operations to Faysal Bank for £34 million. [6]
In 2014, it announced to convert itself into a full-fledged Islamic Bank in three to five years. [7] It finally converted to a full-fledged Islamic bank by December 2022. [8]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Faysal Bank Annual Report 2023" (PDF). faysalbank.com. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "A Bank in Pakistan is Splurging on 200 New Branches". Bloomberg. 1 May 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "About Faysal Bank". Archived from the original on 2011-10-11. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
- ^ Report, Monitoring (April 16, 2018). "Gulf investors seek exit opportunity from Pakistan's banking industry".
- ^ "Banks' appetite for acquisitions". DAWN.COM. May 3, 2010.
- ^ "RBS sells its operations in Pakistan". BBC. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Pakistan's Faysal Bank to convert into Islamic bank". Reuters. 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
- ^ "Faysal Bank branches now 100% Islamic; awarded Islamic Banking license". 2022-12-30.
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