Social Islami Bank Ltd. Information

The SOCIAL ISLAMI BANK LTD (SIBL), a second-generation bank, operating since 22 November, 1995 based on Shariah Principles, has now 86 branches all over the country with two subsidiary companies - SIBL Securities Ltd. & SIBL Investment Ltd. Targeting poverty, SOCIAL ISLAMI BANK LTD. is indeed a concept of 21st century participatory three sector banking model in one. in the formal sector, it works as an Islamic participatory Commercial Bank with human face approach to credit and banking on the profit and loss sharing: it is a Non-formal banking with informal finance and credit package that empowers and humanizes real poor family and create local income opportunities and discourages internal migration; it is a Development Bank intended to monetize the voluntary sector and management of Waqf, Mosque properties and introducing cash Waqf system for the first time in the history. In the formal corporate sector, this Bank would, among others, offer the most up to date banking services through opening of various types of deposit and investment accounts, financing trade, providing letters of guarantee, opening letters of credit, collection of bills, leasing of equipment and consumers' durable, hire purchase and instalment sale for capital goods, investment in low-cost housing and management of real estates, participatory investment in various industrial, agricultural, transport, educational and health projects and so on.