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Saturday, December 5 - 2009

NBAD receives license to operate in Hong Kong

  • United Arab Emirates: Thursday, May 21 - 2009 at 09:25
  • PRESS RELEASE

National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) announced today that it has received the approval of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) to open a full fledged branch in Hong Kong.

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  • Mr. Qamber Ali Al Mulla, Senior General Manger of NBAD's International Banking Division.
    Mr. Qamber Ali Al Mulla, Senior General Manger of NBAD's International Banking Division.
"This step comes in line with the Bank's strategy to expand in regions that offer attractive opportunities for the banking industry," said Mr. Qamber Ali Al Mulla, Senior General Manager of NBAD's International Banking Division.

"NBAD will open its branch during the second half of 2009 and this is just the beginning of our strategic initiative for the Far East where we intend future expansion with Hong Kong being made the Regional Head Quarters,"
Mr. Al Mulla added.

"NBAD's branch in Hong Kong will be equipped to provide a full range of banking services & products and will play a vital role in boosting the trade between UAE and Far East, particularly Hong Kong and China, and facilitate business dealings between the two countries," Mr. Al Mulla explained who also highlighted that the branch would serve as a gateway for investors from the Arab World looking to invest in China and the Far East and given the strength of NBAD's UAE and International Networks, will assist Chinese investors and business houses interested in doing business or investment in the UAE and GCC..

"Opening NBAD's branch in Hong Kong underpins our international network, which is the largest overseas network of all UAE local banks. It stretches from Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain in the G.C.C., Egypt, Libya and Sudan in Africa, London, Paris, and Geneva in Europe to Washington D.C. in the U.S.A.," he added.

"NBAD will continue with its expansion plans in new markets. We have already received a license to open a branch in Jordan and we expect to open our first branch in Amman during the second half of 2009. In addition, we are looking at markets such as Qatar, Saudi, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria etc. NBAD also has plans to increase the number of our branches in existing locations such as Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Egypt during the coming period in line with the Bank's strategy," Mr. Al Mulla concluded.
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About NBAD:
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), The Number One Bank in the UAE, was incorporated in 1968. NBAD has a network of more than 85 branches in the UAE in addition to Cash offices that are spread out at remote locations to provide banking services to customers stationed at offshore oil operations and in desert locations as well as other government organizations. NBAD also has three Shift offices inside the security areas of the Abu Dhabi International Airport providing currency & traveler's cheques exchange services.

The branch network is widened further with more than 270 ATMs through which customers perform a variety of transactions.

Besides brick & mortar branches, NBAD provides 24 hour internet banking accessibility through NbadOnline and NbadDirect, as well as account access and personalized customer support through the 24-hour Call Centre.

NBAD's overseas network stretches from Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain in the G.C.C., Egypt, Libya, and Sudan in Africa, London, Paris, and Geneva in Europe to Washington D.C. in the U.S.A.

The bank provides its customer with a wide variety of financial services targeted at all segments of the retail and corporate market in addition to Fund Management, Brokerage, Leasing, Property Management businesses and Private Banking.

NBAD is rated senior long term/short term A+/A-1 by Standard and Poor's, Aa3/P1 by Moodys and AA-/F1+ by Fitch giving one of the strongest combined rating of any Middle Eastern financial institution.

NBAD is an award winning leader in the UAE and GCC financial services industry. Awards won by the bank include the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award, , the Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Award 2007, the Middle East Excellence Award 2008Dubai Quality Award, 'Best Bank in UAE' from Euromoney and Banker publications, 'Human Resources Development Award' from the Emirates Institute for Banking & Financial Studies, the 'Middle East e-Banking Country Award', the 'Outstanding use of IT in Financial Services Award, and excellence award for 'Best use of Technology' from Banker Middle East.

For further enquires, please contact:
Ehab Khairi
Media & PR Manager
National Bank of Abu Dhabi
Tel: +97126111190

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