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 "id": "listing/premier-bank-kenya",
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 "label": {
  "ar": "بنك بريمير كينيا",
  "en": "Premier Bank Kenya",
  "ur": "پریمیئر بینک کینیا"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بنك تجاري متوافق مع الشريعة في نيروبي، أسسه سنة 2007 باسم فيرست كوميونيتي بنك مستثمرون مسلمون من الكويت وكينيا وتنزانيا، وبدأ العمل في 1 يونيو 2008 أول بنك شرعي كامل في كينيا.",
  "en": "A Shari'ah-compliant commercial bank in Nairobi, founded in 2007 as First Community Bank by private Muslim investors in Kuwait, Kenya and Tanzania, which opened on 1 June 2008 as the first fully fledged Shari'ah bank in Kenya.",
  "ur": "نیروبی کا شریعت کے مطابق تجارتی بینک، جو 2007 میں کویت، کینیا اور تنزانیہ کے نجی مسلمان سرمایہ کاروں نے فرسٹ کمیونٹی بینک کے نام سے قائم کیا اور یکم جون 2008 کو کینیا کے پہلے مکمل شرعی بینک کے طور پر کھلا۔"
 },
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  "made",
  "today"
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 "regions": [
  "east-africa"
 ],
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 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "trade-and-finance",
  "halal-economy"
 ],
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  "kind": "company",
  "categories": [
   "finance"
  ],
  "founded": {
   "edtf": "2008-06-01",
   "hijri": "1429-05-27",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Approved by the Central Bank of Kenya in 2007; operations from 1 June 2008 (CBK directory, cited by the article). The Hijri date is converter-derived (Umm al-Qura).",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en"
   ]
  },
  "made": {
   "by_muslims": true,
   "basis": "documented",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en"
   ]
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q5452774"
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 3,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)"
  },
  "status_business": "active",
  "location": {
   "serves": [
    "ke"
   ]
  },
  "links": {
   "official": "https://www.firstcommunitybank.co.ke"
  },
  "footprint": {
   "wikipedia": {
    "languages": [
     "ar",
     "en",
     "sw"
    ],
    "checked": "2026-11-07",
    "sources": [
     "source/wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en"
    ]
   },
   "wikidata": "Q5452774"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia \"Premier Bank Kenya\" (revision 1377139799, 28 September 2026), read in Chrome on the founder's Mac on 7 November 2026; Wikidata sitelinks read the same day; made.by_muslims documented: the article, citing Muslim-Investor.com (2014), names its founders as private Muslim investors",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)",
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "run": "modern-enterprise-b09"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بنك بريمير، المعروف سابقا باسم فيرست كوميونيتي بنك، بنك تجاري متوافق مع الشريعة في كينيا، نال موافقة البنك المركزي الكيني سنة 2007 وبدأ عمله رسميا في 1 يونيو 2008. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة",
     "markdown": "أسسه سنة 2007 مستثمرون مسلمون من الكويت وكينيا وتنزانيا ليعمل وفق أحكام الشريعة الإسلامية، وهو أول بنك كامل مقره كينيا يعمل وفقها. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en} وبعده نالت بنوك شرعية أخرى، منها بنك الخليج الأفريقي وبنك دبي الإسلامي، تراخيص من البنك المركزي الكيني. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الشركات التابعة والحجم",
     "markdown": "أسس سنة 2010 شركة وساطة للتكافل يملكها بالكامل، وشركة «إف سي بي كابيتال» أول شركة رأس مال استثماري متوافقة مع الشريعة في كينيا. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en} وفي ديسمبر 2019 بلغت أصوله نحو 187.6 مليون دولار، وكان الحادي والعشرين بالأصول بين 43 بنكا. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية، «Premier Bank Kenya»، المراجعة 1377139799. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "listing/premier-bank-kenya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-07"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Premier Bank, formerly First Community Bank, is a Shari'ah-compliant commercial bank in Kenya; it was approved by the Central Bank of Kenya in 2007 and began operating on 1 June 2008. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Origins",
     "markdown": "It was established in 2007 by private Muslim investors in Kuwait, Kenya and Tanzania to operate according to Islamic Shari'ah law, and was the first Kenya-based fully fledged bank to do so. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en} After it, other Sharia-compliant banks, among them Gulf African Bank and Dubai Islamic Bank, received licences from the Central Bank of Kenya. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Subsidiaries and size",
     "markdown": "In 2010 it set up a wholly owned takaful brokerage, and it owns FCB Capital, Kenya's first Sharia-compliant investment capital firm. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en} In December 2019 its assets were about US$187.6 million, 21st by assets among 43 banks. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- English Wikipedia, \"Premier Bank Kenya\", revision 1377139799. {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "listing/premier-bank-kenya",
    "lang": "en",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-11-07"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "پریمیئر بینک، جو پہلے فرسٹ کمیونٹی بینک تھا، کینیا کا شریعت کے مطابق تجارتی بینک ہے؛ اسے 2007 میں مسلمان سرمایہ کاروں نے قائم کیا اور یکم جون 2008 کو کام شروع کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا، «Premier Bank Kenya»، نظرِ ثانی 1377139799۔ {cite:wikipedia-premier-bank-kenya-en}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "ur",
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 "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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