The following list contains all the notable banks in Pakistan. Sindh's financial sector with its roots in I.I.Chundrigar_Road has for many years ranked in top indices and has led to the amalgamation of indices into the Pakistani Stock Exchange. Pakistan's banking industry includes many a prominent names such as Bestway Group Limited, Allied Bank Limited, Askari Bank, MCB Bank Limited, Habib Bank Limited, Habib Metro, Faysal Bank, National Bank of Pakistan, State Bank of Pakistan, Bank Alfalah. Pakistan Stock Exchange was established on September 18, 1947 and was formally incorporated on March 10, 1949 under the name of Karachi Stock Exchange, as a Company limited by Guarantee. In October 1970, a second stock exchange was established in Lahore to meet the stock trading needs of the provincial metropolis. In October 1989, Islamabad Stock Exchange was established to cater to the investors of the northern parts of the country. Because the three exchanges had separate management, trading interfaces, indices, and had no mutualized structure, therefore the Stock Exchanges (Corporatization, Demutualization and Integration) Act, 2012 was promulgated by the Government of Pakistan which ultimately resulted in the three exchanges integrating their operations effective January 11, 2016 under the new name ‘Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited’ (PSX)[1] State Bank of Pakistan[2] is the Central Bank of Pakistan.
Systemically Important Banks
Domestically Systemically Important Banks
Source:[3]
Scheduled Banks
Public Sector Banks
Private Banks
Public Sector Non-Schedule Banks
Private Banks
- 1) Habib Bank AG Zurich (Parent of HabibMetro)
- 2) Silkbank (Subsidiary of United Bank Limited)
Islamic banks
Many Islamic Banks are working in Pakistan. The list of banks is given below: These are the names of Islamic banks having accreditation licenses from the State Bank of Pakistan.
- 1) Meezan Bank Limited
- 2) Soneri Mustaqeem Islamic Bank
- 3) Dubai Islamic Bank
- 4) Al Baraka Bank (Pakistan) Limited - Al Baraka Bank
- 5) Bank Alfalah Islamic
- 6) Bank Makramah Limited (BML)
- 7) BankIslami Pakistan Limited
Foreign banks
- 1) Deutsche Bank AG (Deutsche Bank Pakistan) 🇩🇪
- 2) Citibank, N.A. (CitiBank, N.A., Pakistan) 🇺🇸
- 3) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC Pakistan) 🇨🇳
- 4) Bank of China[4] (Bank of China Pakistan Branch) 🇨🇳
- 5) The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC Bank Pakistan)
- 6) The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG Bank Pakistan) 🇯🇵
- 7) Saudi National Bank (Samba Financial Group|Samba Bank (Pakistan) Limited) 🇸🇦
Development finance institutions
- 1) House Building Finance Company
- 2) National Credit Guarantee Company
See also
- Banking in Pakistan
- Defunct banks of Pakistan
- List of companies of Pakistan
- Economy of Pakistan
- Index of the Karachi Stock Exchange
- Islamic banking
External links
References
- PSXPakistan Stock Exchange Pakistan Stock Exchange. Pakistan Stock Exchange Pakistan Stock Exchange, Pakistan Stock Exchange, retrieved 11 December 2025^
- M. Ali Kemal. M. Ashraf Janjua. History of the State Bank of Pakistan (1988–2003). State Bank of Pakistan. 976 pages. Hardback. Price not given. M. Ashraf Janjua. History of the State Bank of Pakistan (1988–2003) Supplement. State Bank of Pakistan. 352 pages. Hardback. Price not given. The Pakistan Development Review, 2004-06-01^
- HBL, NBP, UBL declared important banks