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 "id": "listing/faysal-bank",
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 "slug": "faysal-bank",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بنك فيصل",
  "en": "Faysal Bank",
  "ur": "فیصل بینک"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بنك إسلامي باكستاني في كراتشي، بدأ في باكستان في أكتوبر 1987 فرعا لبنك فيصل الإسلامي البحريني المملوك للأمير محمد بن فيصل، وصار بنكا تقليديا ثم تحوّل بالكامل إلى بنك إسلامي في ديسمبر 2022؛ يملك بنك إثمار البحريني أغلب أسهمه.",
  "en": "A Pakistani Islamic bank in Karachi, which began in Pakistan in October 1987 as a branch of Bahrain's Faysal Islamic Bank, owned by Prince Mohammed bin Faisal; it became a conventional bank and converted fully to Islamic banking in December 2022; Bahrain's Ithmaar Bank holds most of it.",
  "ur": "کراچی کا پاکستانی اسلامی بینک، جو اکتوبر 1987 میں شہزادہ محمد بن فیصل کے بحرینی فیصل اسلامک بینک کی شاخ کے طور پر پاکستان میں شروع ہوا؛ بعد میں روایتی بینک بنا اور دسمبر 2022 میں مکمل اسلامی بینک بن گیا؛ بحرین کا اثمار بینک اس کا بڑا مالک ہے۔"
 },
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 "wings": [
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  "today"
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 "regions": [
  "south-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "trade-and-finance",
  "halal-economy"
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  "categories": [
   "finance"
  ],
  "founded": {
   "edtf": "1987-10",
   "hijri": "1408-02~",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Began in Pakistan in October 1987 as a branch of Faysal Islamic Bank (Profit, 2018, cited by the article); incorporated as Al-Faysal Investment Bank in 1995; full Islamic bank by December 2022. The article's lead gives 1995 and 2023; the cited history is used. The Hijri month is converter-derived.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-faysal-bank-en"
   ]
  },
  "made": {
   "by_muslims": true,
   "basis": "documented",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-faysal-bank-en"
   ]
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q5439099"
  },
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   "source/wikipedia-faysal-bank-en",
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 3,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)"
  },
  "status_business": "active",
  "location": {
   "serves": [
    "pk"
   ]
  },
  "links": {
   "official": "https://www.faysalbank.com"
  },
  "footprint": {
   "wikipedia": {
    "languages": [
     "ar",
     "bn",
     "en",
     "fa",
     "pnb",
     "ur"
    ],
    "checked": "2026-11-07",
    "sources": [
     "source/wikipedia-faysal-bank-en"
    ]
   },
   "wikidata": "Q5439099",
   "catalogues": {
    "ticker": "PSX: FABL"
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia \"Faysal Bank\" (revision 1365253467, 21 July 2026), read in Chrome on the founder's Mac on 7 November 2026; Wikidata sitelinks read the same day; the insider-trading case and the State Bank fines are told as the cited press reports them",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)",
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "run": "modern-enterprise-b05"
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بنك فيصل بنك إسلامي باكستاني مقره كراتشي، ويحمل اسم الأمير محمد بن فيصل آل سعود. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en} وكان له 900 فرع سنة 2025، ويملك بنك إثمار البحريني 66.78% منه. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "البدايات",
     "markdown": "بدأ في باكستان في أكتوبر 1987 بفرع صغير تابع لبنك فيصل الإسلامي البحريني، المملوك للأمير محمد بن فيصل، ضمن مبادرة «دار المال الإسلامي» التي أُسست في جنيف سنة 1981 لنشر الصيرفة الإسلامية. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en} وفي 1995 سُجّلت فروعه بنكا تقليديا باسم «بنك الفيصل للاستثمار» وأُدرج في بورصة كراتشي. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "فقدان الصفة الشرعية ثم استعادتها",
     "markdown": "في 2002 اندمج بنك الاستثمار الإسلامي مع البنك التقليدي، ففقد صفته المتوافقة مع الشريعة وتراجعت ودائعه 23% في سنة. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en} واشترى سنة 2010 أعمال رويال بنك أوف سكوتلاند في باكستان. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en} وأعلن سنة 2014 عزمه التحول الكامل إلى بنك إسلامي، وأتمّ ذلك في ديسمبر 2022 ونال ترخيص الصيرفة الإسلامية. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الجدل",
     "markdown": "اتُّهم رئيس الصيرفة الاستثمارية فيه في منتصف العقد الأول من القرن بالتداول بناء على معلومات داخلية في نيويورك. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en} وفرض بنك الدولة الباكستاني عليه غرامات في يوليو 2020 وأكتوبر 2022 لمخالفات تنظيمية وتشغيلية. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية، «Faysal Bank»، المراجعة 1365253467. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "listing/faysal-bank",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-07"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Faysal Bank Limited is a Pakistani Islamic bank based in Karachi, named after Prince Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en} It had 900 branches in 2025, and Bahrain's Ithmaar Bank holds 66.78% of it. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Beginnings",
     "markdown": "It started in Pakistan in October 1987 with a small branch of Bahrain's Faysal Islamic Bank, owned by Prince Mohammed bin Faisal, within the Dar al-Maal al-Islami Trust founded in Geneva in 1981 to promote Islamic banking. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en} In 1995 its branches were incorporated as a conventional bank, Al-Faysal Investment Bank, and listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Losing and regaining Shariah status",
     "markdown": "In 2002 the Islamic investment bank merged with the conventional bank, losing its Shariah-compliant status, and deposits fell 23% in a year. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en} In 2010 it bought RBS Pakistan. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en} In 2014 it announced a full conversion to Islamic banking, completed in December 2022 with an Islamic banking licence. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Controversies",
     "markdown": "In the mid-2000s its head of investment banking was charged with insider trading in New York. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en} The State Bank of Pakistan fined it in July 2020 and October 2022 for regulatory and operational violations. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- English Wikipedia, \"Faysal Bank\", revision 1365253467. {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "listing/faysal-bank",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-07"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "فیصل بینک کراچی کا پاکستانی اسلامی بینک ہے، جو اکتوبر 1987 میں شہزادہ محمد بن فیصل کے بحرینی بینک کی شاخ کے طور پر شروع ہوا۔ {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مسار",
     "markdown": "2002 میں یہ روایتی بینک بنا اور شرعی حیثیت کھو بیٹھا؛ دسمبر 2022 میں مکمل اسلامی بینک بن کر اسلامی بینکاری کا لائسنس ملا۔ {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا، «Faysal Bank»، نظرِ ثانی 1365253467۔ {cite:wikipedia-faysal-bank-en}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
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    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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   "updated": "2026-11-07"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-11-07",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-bunuk-al-islamiyya",
  "listing/adib",
  "listing/al-rajhi",
  "listing/alinma",
  "listing/bank-albilad",
  "listing/dib",
  "listing/dukhan-bank",
  "listing/emirates-islamic"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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