Kuwait · Financial institution
Kuwait Finance House K.S.C.P.
Legal name in the LEI recordKuwait Finance House (K.S.C.P.)
Kuwait Finance House K.S.C.P. (KFH) is a Kuwaiti public shareholding company. It was established in 1977 and is headquartered in Kuwait City. Its shares are listed on Boursa Kuwait and Bahrain Bourse, and its major shareholders are Kuwaiti state bodies, including the Kuwait Investment Authority. It provides Sharia-compliant retail, corporate, private banking, treasury and investment services in Kuwait and through group banks in Bahrain, Türkiye, Egypt, the United Kingdom and Germany. It acquired Ahli United Bank B.S.C. in 2022 and absorbed Ahli United Bank K.S.C.P. by merger in February 2024.
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
- KFHOKWKWXXX 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 KFHOKWKW 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
- 1988-11-21
- Last updated
- 2022-02-14
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Publicly listed
Tickers KFH · KFH
Institution type
Islamic bank
Trades as KFH
- Ownership
- KFH is listed on Boursa Kuwait and Bahrain Bourse, and its annual report names the Kuwait Investment Authority, the Public Authority for Minors Affairs and the Public Institution for Social Security as major shareholders.
- Major shareholders
- Kuwait Investment Authority
Public Authority for Minors Affairs
Public Institution for Social Security - Stock listings
- Boursa Kuwait KFH
Bahrain Bourse KFH - Head office
- Abdullah Al Mubarak Street, Murgab (P.O. Box 24989 Safat), 13110 Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Company register
- Commercial Register No. 26066, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Kuwait (registered 14 November 1994)
- Name in the local language
- بيت التمويل الكويتي
Business lines
KFH offers only Sharia-compliant products. According to its H1 2026 corporate profile, its segments are retail and private banking, corporate banking and project finance, and commercial and business banking.
Online
- Websites & references
- kfh.com ↗
online.kfhonline.com ↗ online banking for personal customers
Wikipedia ↗ - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · Instagram ↗ · YouTube ↗ · Snapchat ↗
Sources · 14 pages consulted
- kfh.com/en/home/Personal/aboutus/Islamic-Banking-Pioneers.html
- kfh.com/en/home/Personal/Tools-services/KFH-Disclosures.html
- kfh.com/dam/jcr:850f7fd6-5392-46ab-901b-886ed50aff3f/Corporate%20Profile%20H1-2026%20%28English%2
- kfh.com/dam/jcr:1563ea2b-4d58-467b-a969-a8a8641afee1/Commercial-Registration-english-2024.pdf
- kfh.com/en/home/Investor-Relations/KFH-Reports/Financial-Institutions.html
- kfh.com/en/home/Investor-Relations/KFH-Reports/Financial-Institutions/KYC-AML-Documents.html
- kfh.com/en/home/Personal/Tools-services/IBAN-Number---Swift-Code.html
- kfh.com/en/home/Personal/news/2026/AbdullahAlHadd.html
- kfh.com/en/home/Personal/news/2024/Al-Marzouq--KFH-Completes-Largest-Ever-Merger-in-Kuwait-s-Bank
- kfh.com/en/reports/kuwait/Annual-Reports/Annual-Report-2025/document_en/KFH%20Annual%20Report%20E
- aljarida.com/article/127514
- zawya.com/en/press-release/companies-news/kuwait-finance-house-kscp-shares-commence-trading-on-bahr
- cbk.gov.kw/en/cbk-news/announcements-and-press-releases/press-releases/2025/10/202510130930-cbk-impo
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait_Finance_House
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Khaled Yousef Alshamlan Group Chief Executive Officer
- Chair
-
Hamad Abdulmohsen Al Marzouq
Chairman
- Chief financial officer
- Abdulkarim Abdullah AlSamdan Group Chief Financial Officer
- Executive
-
Gehad Mohamed Elbendary Anany
Group Chief Risk Officer
- Executive
- Meshal Fahad Al-Shayee Head of Group Compliance and Governance
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Kuwait
- Central Bank of Kuwait Central bankPrudential supervisorAML supervisor
- Kuwait
- Capital Markets Authority Securities
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Leadership
The bank disclosed the appointment of a new Group Chief Transformation Officer.
kfh.com ↗ -
Leadership
The bank disclosed the resignation of its Group Chief International Banking Officer, who later became CEO of the subsidiary KFH Capital.
kfh.com ↗ -
Leadership
The general assembly on 30 March 2026 elected the Board of Directors for the 2026–2028 term.
aljarida.com ↗ -
Leadership
The bank appointed Khaled Yousef Alshamlan as Group Chief Executive Officer after the acting Group CEO retired.
kfh.com ↗ -
Merger / acquisition
The bank completed its merger with Ahli United Bank K.S.C.P. KFH continued as the surviving entity.
kfh.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
- KFHOKWKWXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- KFHOBank
- KWCountry · Kuwait
- KWLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 2549007KX0N057S9BC98
- 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
- Kuwait · 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
- 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
The Kuwait Finance House (K.S.C.P.) group has 5 institutions in the directory, in 5 countries: all hold a BIC.
Including Kt Bank AG, Kuwait Finance House Bank- Egypt, Kuveyt Turk Katilim Bankasi A.S., Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad.
See the Kuwait Finance House (K.S.C.P.) group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- ABDULLA AL MUBARAK STREET SAFAT 13110 24989 KUWAIT
- Operational address
- KUWAIT FINANCE HOUSE FLOOR 1 ABDULLA AL MUBARAK STREET SAFAT 13110 SAFAT POB 24989 KUWAIT
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>KFHOKWKWXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>2549007KX0N057S9BC98</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>KFHOKWKWXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>2549007KX0N057S9BC98</LEI>
<Nm>KUWAIT FINANCE HOUSE K.S.C.P.</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>SAFAT</TwnNm>
<Ctry>KW</Ctry>
<AdrLine>ABDULLA AL MUBARAK STREET SAFAT 13110 24989</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.
- Images—logos and photos from Wikimedia Commons (credited with their author and licence) or from the institution's own website, where Wikimedia has none. Elucidate keeps a copy of each; the links lead to the source and the original image. Hamad Abdulmohsen Al Marzouq: kfh.com (official website) · original; Gehad Mohamed Elbendary Anany: kfh.com (official website) · original.
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