China · Financial institution
Hankou Bank (Formerly Wuhan Urban Commercial Bank)
Legal name in the LEI record汉口银行股份有限公司
Hankou Bank is a joint-stock city commercial bank headquartered at 933 Jianshe Avenue, Wuhan, Hubei Province. It was formed in December 1997 from 62 Wuhan urban credit cooperatives and took its current name in 2008, having previously traded as Wuhan City Commercial Bank. It has no controlling shareholder, and at the end of 2025 state and state-owned legal-person shareholders held 68.50% of its shares. It provides corporate, retail and small-business banking and financial markets services in Hubei and Chongqing, and since 3 July 2026 it has been taking over the business of Wuhan Zhongbang Bank.
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
- WHCBCNBNXXX 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 WHCBCNBN 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
- 2000-09-02
- Last updated
- 2022-02-14
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
State-owned
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as Hankou Bank (汉口银行)
- Standing
- On 3 July 2026 the bank was designated to take over the assets, liabilities, business and staff of Wuhan Zhongbang Bank. The National Financial Regulatory Administration placed Zhongbang Bank under receivership for one year from that date. Zhongbang Bank's business will move to Hankou Bank once IT system changes are complete.
- Ownership
- No shareholder controls the bank; at the end of 2025 state and state-owned legal-person shareholders held 68.50%, including 49.48% held by Wuhan municipal state-owned shareholders, and Wuhan Financial Holdings (Group) was the largest single shareholder with 11.62%.
- Major shareholders
- Wuhan Financial Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd. (武汉金融控股（集团）有限公司) 11.62% · 31 Dec 2025
Legend Holdings Corporation (联想控股股份有限公司) 11.1% · 31 Dec 2025
WISCO Group Co., Ltd. (武钢集团有限公司) 9.66% · 31 Dec 2025
Wuhan Development Investment Co., Ltd. (武汉开发投资有限公司) 5.92% · 31 Dec 2025 - Head office
- 933 Jianshe Avenue (建设大道933号), Wuhan Commercial Bank Building, Jianghan District, 430015 Wuhan, China
- Company register
- Unified social credit code 91420100300248067P
- Former names
- Wuhan City Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. (武汉市商业银行股份有限公司) · Wuhan City Cooperative Bank (武汉城市合作银行)
Business lines
Lending is mainly to corporates, many of them state-owned, alongside retail deposits and consumer and mortgage loans; according to a May 2026 rating report, net interest income made up 77.40% of 2025 operating income.
Online
- Websites & references
- hkbchina.com ↗ did not load when checked
96558.com ↗ Alternative official domain carrying the same corporate site (about-us page)
vendor.hkbchina.com ↗ Centralised procurement portal
Wikipedia ↗ - Official social accounts
- None found
Sources · 13 pages consulted
- dfjrjgj.hubei.gov.cn/tzgg/202607/t20260703_5970636.shtml
- chinamoney.com.cn/dqs/cm-s-notice-query/fileDownLoad.do?mode=open&contentId=3359302&priority=0
- finance.sina.com.cn/wm/2026-07-04/doc-inifrhue0059919.shtml
- 36kr.com/p/3886619163442054
- finance.sina.cn/2026-06-13/detail-inicfzuq9582481.d.html?cre=tianyi&mod=wlocal&loc=15&r=0&rfunc=27&tj=cxv
- wenxuan.news/live/22466.html
- news.qq.com/rain/a/20260408A06BNT00
- cj.sina.com.cn/articles/view/2519768781/96309ecd01901amhi
- finance.sina.com.cn/stock/stockzmt/2025-03-05/doc-inenrkhi1660063.shtml
- hkbchina.com/portal/zh_CN/home/index.html
- 96558.com/portal/zh_CN/gywh/index.html
- 96558.com/portal/zh_CN/gjyw/gjjsyw/hkyw/1334.html
- zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%89%E5%8F%A3%E9%93%B6%E8%A1%8C
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Mao Feng (毛锋) Vice Chairman and President
- Chair
- Liu Bo (刘波) Party Secretary, Chairman and Legal Representative
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- China
- National Financial Regulatory Administration (Hubei Office) Prudential supervisorConduct
- China
- People's Bank of China Central bankAML supervisor
- China
- State Administration of Foreign Exchange Foreign exchange
Recent events 2 enforcement or investigation items
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Merger / acquisition
The National Financial Regulatory Administration placed Wuhan Zhongbang Bank under receivership and designated Hankou Bank to take over its assets, liabilities, business and staff.
dfjrjgj.hubei.gov.cn ↗ -
Leadership
The NFRA Hubei Office approved Mao Feng as director, vice chairman and president, ending the chairman's combined role as president since 2023.
wenxuan.news ↗ -
Enforcement
The People's Bank of China fined the bank CNY 1.23 million for failing to identify customers and transacting with unidentified customers.
cj.sina.com.cn ↗ -
Other
The bank completed a placement of 873.53 million shares to 11 state-owned enterprises, raising CNY 4.586 billion of core tier 1 capital.
finance.sina.com.cn ↗ -
Investigation
Former chairman Chen Xinmin, who left the post in August 2023, was placed under investigation, according to press reports.
cj.sina.com.cn ↗
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
- WHCBCNBNXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- WHCBBank
- CNCountry · China
- BNLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 300300C1085642000166
- 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
- China · East Asia & Pacific
- 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
- No country programme
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
GLEIF’s relationship records name no parent for this LEI, and no group page is published for it.
Addresses
- Registered address
- 933 JIANSHE AVENUE WUHAN 430015 CHINA
- Operational address
- 933 JIANSHE AVENUE WUHAN 430015 WUHAN CHINA
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>WHCBCNBNXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>300300C1085642000166</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>WHCBCNBNXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>300300C1085642000166</LEI>
<Nm>HANKOU BANK (FORMERLY WUHAN URBAN COMMERCIAL BANK)</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>WUHAN</TwnNm>
<Ctry>CN</Ctry>
<AdrLine>933 JIANSHE AVENUE WUHAN 430015</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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