Country · Middle East & North Africa
Bahrain
Check who the institutions in Bahrain are: whether each holds a BIC, which register lists it and whether an LEI is mapped. No tracked register covers Bahrain, so every institution listed here holds a BIC.
Bahrain at a glance
Every row is the same 87 institutions, split by one attribute
Type
- Financial institution 78 · 90%
- Non-financial corporate 5 · 5.7%
- Credit institution 4 · 4.6%
Identification
- BIC only 87 · 100%
Regulation level
- Prudential licence 4 · 4.6%
- Not on a tracked register 83 · 95%
LEI
- LEI mapped 56 · 64%
- No LEI mapped 31 · 36%
View as table
| Attribute | Institutions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Type | ||
| Financial institution | 78 | 90% |
| Non-financial corporate | 5 | 5.7% |
| Credit institution | 4 | 4.6% |
| Identification | ||
| BIC only | 87 | 100% |
| Regulation level | ||
| Prudential licence | 4 | 4.6% |
| Not on a tracked register | 83 | 95% |
| LEI | ||
| LEI mapped | 56 | 64% |
| No LEI mapped | 31 | 36% |
An institution is one entry in the directory: a BIC8 in Swift’s directory, or a firm on a tracked register that holds no BIC. Licences held by an institution with a BIC are shown on its page.
BIC data as at 23 September 2026
Institutions in Bahrain
The first 25 of 87 institutions in Bahrain, with or without a BIC: prudentially supervised and larger institutions first. No OFAC or EU listing cites an institution in Bahrain.
- Citibank N.A. BIC CITIBHBX Credit institutionPrudential licence
- BNP Paribas Manama BIC BNPABHBC Credit institutionPrudential licence
- Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.A. BIC CHASBH21 Credit institutionPrudential licence
- Standard Chartered Bank BIC SCBLBHBM Credit institutionPrudential licence
- Bbk BIC BBKUBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Arab Bank PLC BIC ARABBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Icici Bank Limited BIC ICICBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Al Baraka Islamic Bank B.S.C - Closed BIC ABIBBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Bahrain Islamic Bank B.S.C. BIC BIBBBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC BIC NBADBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Gulf International Bank B.S.C. BIC GULFBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Mashreqbank PSC BIC BOMLBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- National Bank of Bahrain B.S.C BIC NBOBBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- The Saudi National Bank, Bahrain Branch BIC SNCBBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation BIC APICBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- BNP Paribas Bahrain BIC BNPABHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- BNP Paribas Manama BIC BNPABHC1 Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Habib Bank LTD BIC HABBBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Hdfc Bank LTD BIC HDFCBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Kuwait Finance House B.S.C Closed BIC AUBBBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- National Bank of Kuwait S.A.K.P Bahrain Branch BIC NBOKBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Singapore Gulf Bank B.S.C. Closed BIC SGBDBHB2 Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- State Bank of India, Obu BIC SBINBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- United Bank Limited, Manama BIC UNILBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Abc Islamic Bank (E.C) BIC ABCIBHBM Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
Regulation and supervision
None of the 22 tracked registers covers Bahrain. All 87 institutions listed here hold a BIC; firms licensed only by Bahrain’s national authorities are not listed. By regulation level: 4 prudentially supervised, 83 not on a tracked register.
ECB banking supervision
Significant institutions
The ECB list of supervised entities covers 1 institution here that hold a BIC: 1 significant, supervised directly by the ECB, and 0 less significant.
See 1 ECB-supervised institution →Groups and systemic importance
Institutions in Bahrain belong to 4 groups on the FSB’s 2025 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). GLEIF records the head office of 4 corporate groups in the directory here. For 9 institutions here, GLEIF records a parent in another country.
G-SIB groups
FSB 2025 list; institutions here that hold a BIC, by group
| Group | Bucket | Institutions here |
|---|---|---|
| BNP Paribas | 2 | 1 |
| Citigroup | 3 | 1 |
| JP Morgan Chase | 4 | 1 |
| Standard Chartered | 1 | 1 |
Largest other groups
GLEIF consolidation groups, by legal entities (LEIs) in this country
| Group | LEIs here | LEIs in the group |
|---|---|---|
| Al Baraka Group B.S.C | 2 | 6 |
| First Abu Dhabi Bank P.J.S.C. | 1 | 5 |
| Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ziraat Bankasi Anonim Şirketi | 1 | 10 |
| Arab Banking Corporation B S C | 1 | 4 |
| United Bank Limited | 1 | 2 |
Groups headquartered here
Largest of 4, by legal entities in the directory
| Group | LEIs in the directory |
|---|---|
| Al Baraka Group B.S.C | 6 |
| Arab Banking Corporation B S C | 4 |
| Gulf International Bank B.S.C | 3 |
| Sico BSC (C) | 2 |
Parents abroad
Institutions here by the country of their GLEIF ultimate parent (else direct parent)
GLEIF parents are accounting-consolidation relationships. They do not show ownership shares or control.
Payments and connectivity
Of the 87 institutions in Bahrain that hold a BIC, 82.8% are connected to Swift and 8 are Swift GPI members, as at 23 September 2026.
Connection to Swift
Institutions that hold a BIC, by connection type in Swift’s directory
A BIC does not imply a connection to the Swift network.
Payment schemes
Institutions that hold a BIC, reachable in each scheme
- Swift GPI members
- 8 institutions
- Swift GPI members, live
- 8 institutions
Trading venues
5 live market identifier codes (ISO 10383) operated by institutions here, by category
All BIC codes in Bahrain
Look up any of the 147 BIC codes registered in Bahrain: the head offices and branch codes of the 87 institutions here that hold a BIC, with their LEIs and flags.
Where branch codes cluster
Branch codes by city, top 3
Sources & method
Each institution counts once, in one country: the BIC country when it holds a BIC, otherwise the country of the register that lists it. Licences in other countries are shown on its page.
Sanctions listings are matched on the BIC and on the LEI mapped to it, so they cover institutions that hold a BIC only. Institutions without a BIC are not screened. Always screen against the official lists.
Read the methodology →Sources for this page
- Swift ISO 9362 BIC directory—institutions and branch codes, mapped to LEIs through the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file. As at 23 September 2026
- ECB list of supervised entities · ECB ↗ published 20 August 2026
- FSB 2025 list of global systemically important banks · FSB ↗ published 27 November 2025
- GLEIF relationship records (Level 2)—accounting consolidation as reported to GLEIF · about Level 2 data ↗ as at 25 September 2026
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