Country · Middle East & North Africa
Lebanon
Check who the institutions in Lebanon are: whether each holds a BIC, which register lists it and whether an LEI is mapped. No tracked register covers Lebanon, so every institution listed here holds a BIC.
Lebanon at a glance
Every row is the same 85 institutions, split by one attribute
Type
- Financial institution 83 · 98%
- Other 2 · 2.4%
Identification
- BIC only 85 · 100%
Regulation level
- Prudential licence 1 · 1.2%
- Not on a tracked register 84 · 99%
LEI
- LEI mapped 52 · 61%
- No LEI mapped 33 · 39%
View as table
| Attribute | Institutions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Type | ||
| Financial institution | 83 | 98% |
| Credit institution | 1 | 1.2% |
| Non-financial corporate | 1 | 1.2% |
| Identification | ||
| BIC only | 85 | 100% |
| Regulation level | ||
| Prudential licence | 1 | 1.2% |
| Not on a tracked register | 84 | 99% |
| LEI | ||
| LEI mapped | 52 | 61% |
| No LEI mapped | 33 | 39% |
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 Lebanon
The first 25 of 85 institutions in Lebanon, with or without a BIC: prudentially supervised and larger institutions first.
- Citibank NA-Beirut Branch BIC CITILBBE Credit institutionPrudential licence
- Arab Bank PLC BIC ARABLBB1 Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Banque du Liban BIC BDLCLBBX Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Banque Misr Liban S.A.L. Head Office BIC BMISLBB1 Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Arab Bank PLC BIC ARABLBBX Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Al Baraka Bank S.A.L. BIC ALCVLBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Am Bank S.A.L. BIC MABALBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Arab African International Bank BIC ARAILBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Areeba SAL BIC AEEBLBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Bank of Beirut Invest S.A.L BIC BOBPLBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Bank of Beirut S.A.L BIC BABELBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Banque de Credit National S.A.L. BIC BCNBLBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Banque de L'habitat S.A.L. BIC LHBALBBX Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Credit Libanais S.A.L BIC CLIBLBBX Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Federal Bank of Lebanon S.A.L BIC FBLELBBX Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- First National Bank S.A.L. BIC FINKLBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Investment and Capital Bank (I and C) S.A.L BIC FFAILBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Libank S.A.L. (Levant Investment Bank) BIC LIBKLBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Midclear S.A.L. BIC MIDRLBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Optimum Invest SAL BIC OPTILBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Qatar National Bank BIC QNBALBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Arab Bank (Switzerland) Lebanon SAL BIC ARBVLBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Arab Finance Corporation SAL BIC AFCOLBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Arab Finance House (Islamic Bank) BIC AFHOLBBE Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
- Audi Investment Bank SAL BIC INFSLBB1 Financial institutionNot on a tracked register
Sanctions
No OFAC or EU listing cites an institution in Lebanon. Listings are matched on the BIC and its LEI, so they cover the 85 institutions here that hold a BIC. Country programmes name Lebanon; Elucidate grades them as targeted listings only.
OFAC programmes naming Lebanon
Entries on the OFAC lists under each programme, all entry types, published 23 September 2026
- Lebanon LEBANON 16
Level: Targeted listings only (graded by Elucidate). A programme lists individuals, entities, vessels and aircraft; its count is not a count of institutions.
Regulation and supervision
None of the 22 tracked registers covers Lebanon. All 85 institutions listed here hold a BIC; firms licensed only by Lebanon’s national authorities are not listed. By regulation level: 1 prudentially supervised, 84 not on a tracked register.
Groups and systemic importance
Institutions in Lebanon belong to 1 group on the FSB’s 2025 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). GLEIF records the head office of 10 corporate groups in the directory here. For 3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Citigroup | 3 | 1 |
Largest other groups
GLEIF consolidation groups, by legal entities (LEIs) in this country
| Group | LEIs here | LEIs in the group |
|---|---|---|
| Blom Bank S.A.L. | 3 | 11 |
| First National Bank S.A.L. | 2 | 2 |
| Banque Bemo SAL | 2 | 2 |
| Fransabank S.A.L. | 2 | 2 |
| sydrws anfsf bnk sh.m.l | 2 | 2 |
Groups headquartered here
Largest of 10, by legal entities in the directory
| Group | LEIs in the directory |
|---|---|
| Blom Bank S.A.L. | 11 |
| Bank Audi S.A.L. | 5 |
| Societe Generale de Banque Au Liban SAL | 5 |
| Bank of Beirut S.A.L | 3 |
| Banque Libano-Francaise S.A.L. | 3 |
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 85 institutions in Lebanon that hold a BIC, 78.8% are connected to Swift and 11 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
- 11 institutions
- Swift GPI members, live
- 11 institutions
Trading venues
2 live market identifier codes (ISO 10383) operated by institutions here, by category
All BIC codes in Lebanon
Look up any of the 128 BIC codes registered in Lebanon: the head offices and branch codes of the 85 institutions here that hold a BIC, with their LEIs and flags.
Where branch codes cluster
Branch codes by city, top 8
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
- OFAC SDN and consolidated lists—US Treasury · source ↗ published 23 September 2026
- EU consolidated financial sanctions list—European Commission generated 22 September 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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