Lebanon · Financial institution
Blom Bank S.A.L.
BLOM BANK S.A.L. is a Lebanese joint-stock bank with its head office in Verdun, Beirut. It was founded in 1951 as Banque du Liban et d'Outre-Mer, and its shares are listed on the Beirut Stock Exchange. It offers retail, corporate, private and investment banking, as well as Islamic banking and asset management. It took over HSBC Bank Middle East's Lebanese business in June 2017 and agreed in January 2021 to sell BLOM Bank Egypt to Bank ABC.
Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- BLOMLBBXXXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under BLOMLBBX directly.
- Swift GPI
- Live member
- Payment schemes and systems
- No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- Branch codes
- None: head-office BIC only
- BIC first registered
- 1994-06-06
- Last updated
- 2024-02-03
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Publicly listed
Ticker BLOM
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as BLOM BANK
- Standing
- Shareholders were called to an extraordinary general assembly on 29 January 2026. The meeting was to approve the bank's purchase of all assets, rights and liabilities of its subsidiary BLOMINVEST BANK S.A.L., following preliminary approval by Banque du Liban dated 19 December 2025. The bank's websites could not be loaded in September 2026.
- Ownership
- The bank's common shares are listed on the Beirut Stock Exchange, and its Global Depositary Shares, for which Bank of New York Mellon is the depositary, remain outstanding.
- Stock listing
- Beirut Stock Exchange BLOM
- Head office
- Rachid Karami Street, BLOM Bank Building, Verdun, 1107 2807 Beirut, Lebanon
- Name in the local language
- بنك لبنان والمهجر ش.م.ل.
- Former name
- Banque du Liban et d'Outre-Mer S.A.L.
Business lines
The bank describes its model as universal banking, spanning commercial, corporate, private, investment, retail and Islamic banking, asset management and capital market services.
Online
- Websites & references
- blombank.com ↗ did not load when checked
investorrelations.blombank.com ↗ investor relations
Wikipedia ↗ - Official social accounts
- None found
Sources · 7 pages consulted
- bse.com.lb/Portals/0/BLOM%20English.pdf
- supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/605/23-1259/
- economics.creditlibanais.com/Article/213013
- blog.blominvestbank.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-Lebanese-Financial-Crisis-and-Gap-Law-A-Critical-Bankers-V
- blog.blominvestbank.com/blom-bank-releases-its-audited-financials-for-2025-and-its-non-audited-financials-for-q1-
- marketscreener.com/news/blom-bank-sal-invitation-to-the-extraordinary-general-assembly-meeting-en-ce7e59dbd0
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLOM_Bank
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chair & chief executive
- Saad Azhari Chairman and General Manager
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Lebanon
- Banque du Liban Central bankOther
- Lebanon
- Banking Control Commission of Lebanon Prudential supervisor
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Leadership
The bank's annual general assembly on 30 June 2026 was convened to approve the 2025 accounts and to elect a new board of directors.
bse.com.lb ↗ -
Merger / acquisition
Shareholders were convened to approve the bank's purchase of all assets and liabilities of BLOMINVEST BANK S.A.L., preliminarily approved by Banque du Liban.
bse.com.lb ↗ -
Other
The US Supreme Court reversed a Second Circuit ruling that had allowed Anti-Terrorism Act plaintiffs to reopen their dismissed case against the bank.
supreme.justia.com ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- BLOMLBBXXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- BLOMBank
- LBCountry · Lebanon
- BXLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 549300ERAZEQ2KEJ8L86
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Profile
- Type
- Financial institutionClassified as a financial institution in Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, with no licence on a tracked register. This includes banks that neither the ECB nor the FSB lists, as well as brokers, fund managers, insurers and market infrastructure.
- Regulation
- Not on a tracked registerNo licence or registration was found for this entity on the registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
- Register licences
- None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- Country · region
- Lebanon · Middle East & North Africa
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- Targeted listings only OFAC
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
The Blom Bank S.A.L. group has 11 institutions in the directory, in 9 countries: all hold a BIC.
Including Banque Banorient France, Banque Banorient (Suisse) SA, Banque Banorient France, Banque Banorient France, Banque Banorient France S.A. Sucursala Romania.
See the Blom Bank S.A.L. group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- BLOM BUILDING RASHID KARAMEH STREET BEIRUT 1107 2807 11-1912 LEBANON
- Operational address
- BLOM BUILDING RASHID KARAMEH STREET BEIRUT 1107 2807 BEIRUT POB 11-1912 LEBANON
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>BLOMLBBXXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300ERAZEQ2KEJ8L86</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>BLOMLBBXXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300ERAZEQ2KEJ8L86</LEI>
<Nm>BLOM BANK S.A.L.</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>BEIRUT</TwnNm>
<Ctry>LB</Ctry>
<AdrLine>BLOM BUILDING RASHID KARAMEH STREET BEIRUT 1107 2807 11-1912</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
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Sources & method
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Read the methodology →Credits for this page
- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, leadership, regulators and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the institution's own website and reports, regulators, company registers and news. Figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
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