Meezan Bank is Pakistan’s number one bank for Islamic banking. A subsidiary of Kuwaiti company Noor Financial Investment, Meezan is the largest Islamic commercial bank in Pakistan. With its headquarters at Karachi’s Meezan House, the bank operates a network of over 760 branches in over 220 cities across Pakistan.
The bank saw three turning points in its history: the first came in 2002 when it acquired the Pakistan operations, of the French multinational investment bank SocGen; the second in 2014 when Meezan acquired Pakistan operations of HSBC; and the third when the bank acquired Pakistan operations of HSBC Oman.