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 "id": "listing/lotus-bank",
 "class": "listing",
 "slug": "lotus-bank",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بنك لوتس",
  "en": "Lotus Bank",
  "ur": "لوٹس بینک"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بنك لا ربوي وأخلاقي في نيجيريا، ثالث بنك لا ربوي فيها وأول بنك منها يبدأ العمل من الجنوب، ومقره لاغوس؛ نال ترخيص الصيرفة اللاربوية في 17 يونيو 2021 وبدأ العمل في 7 يوليو 2021.",
  "en": "A non-interest and ethical bank in Nigeria, the country's third non-interest bank and the first to start from the south, headquartered in Lagos; it was licensed for non-interest banking on 17 June 2021 and opened on 7 July 2021.",
  "ur": "نائیجیریا کا بلا سود اور اخلاقی بینک، ملک کا تیسرا بلا سود بینک اور جنوب سے شروع ہونے والا پہلا، صدر دفتر لاگوس میں؛ 17 جون 2021 کو بلا سود بینکاری کا لائسنس ملا اور 7 جولائی 2021 کو کام شروع کیا۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "made",
  "today"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "trade-and-finance",
  "halal-economy"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "company",
  "categories": [
   "finance"
  ],
  "founded": {
   "edtf": "2021-07-07",
   "hijri": "1442-11-27",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Licensed for non-interest banking on 17 June 2021; operations from 7 July 2021 (BusinessDay and Daily Trust, cited by the article). The Hijri date is converter-derived (Umm al-Qura).",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-lotus-bank-en"
   ]
  },
  "made": {
   "by_muslims": true,
   "basis": "documented",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-lotus-bank-en"
   ]
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q125195721"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikipedia-lotus-bank-en",
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 3,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)"
  },
  "status_business": "active",
  "location": {
   "serves": [
    "ng"
   ]
  },
  "links": {
   "official": "https://www.lotusbank.com"
  },
  "footprint": {
   "wikipedia": {
    "languages": [
     "en",
     "ig"
    ],
    "checked": "2026-11-07",
    "sources": [
     "source/wikipedia-lotus-bank-en"
    ]
   },
   "wikidata": "Q125195721"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia \"Lotus Bank\" (revision 1367902428, 5 August 2026), read in Chrome on the founder's Mac on 7 November 2026; Wikidata sitelinks read the same day; made basis: its non-interest banking licence from the Central Bank of Nigeria, the framework under which Nigeria licenses Islamic banks (as with Jaiz and TAJBank)",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)",
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "run": "modern-enterprise-b08"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بنك لوتس بنك لا ربوي وأخلاقي في نيجيريا. {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en} وهو ثالث بنك لا ربوي يُنشأ في نيجيريا، وأول بنك منها يبدأ عمله من جنوب البلاد، ومقره لاغوس. {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة",
     "markdown": "أُسس سنة 2021، ونال في 17 يونيو 2021 ترخيص البنك المركزي النيجيري للعمل بنكا لا ربويا، وبدأ العمل في 7 يوليو 2021 بثلاثة فروع في لاغوس. {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en} ونقل مقره الرئيس إلى إيكويي في ديسمبر 2022. {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية، «Lotus Bank»، المراجعة 1367902428. {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "listing/lotus-bank",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-07"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "LOTUS Bank is a non-interest and ethical bank in Nigeria. {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en} It is the third non-interest bank established in the country and the first to begin operating from the south, with its headquarters in Lagos. {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Origins",
     "markdown": "It was founded in 2021; on 17 June 2021 the Central Bank of Nigeria licensed it as a non-interest bank, and on 7 July 2021 it began operating with three branches in Lagos. {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en} In December 2022 it moved its head office to Ikoyi. {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- English Wikipedia, \"Lotus Bank\", revision 1367902428. {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "listing/lotus-bank",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-07"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "لوٹس بینک نائیجیریا کا بلا سود اور اخلاقی بینک ہے، ملک کا تیسرا بلا سود بینک، جس نے 7 جولائی 2021 کو لاگوس میں کام شروع کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا، «Lotus Bank»، نظرِ ثانی 1367902428۔ {cite:wikipedia-lotus-bank-en}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "listing/lotus-bank",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-07"
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-07",
 "connections": [],
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  "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"
 }
}