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500 strong: Meezan Bank takes over HSBC’s operations

Last updated: 2015/11/07 at 12:04 PM
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Meezan Bank has acquired HSBC Bank Oman operations in Pakistan, a stock filing report stated earlier yesterday.

Owned 51% by HSBC Holdings, HSBC Bank Oman’s operations in Pakistan consisted of only one branch.

At the end of the first quarter of 2015, the bank’s lone branch had gross assets amounting to Rs4.1 billion.

The operation of HSBC Oman Pakistan is being converted into a Shariah-compliant mode, a statement released by the bank said. It added that the acquisition of the single HSBC Oman branch marked the 500th branch of Meezan Bank.

HSBC Bank Oman currently operates in Oman, India and Pakistan. It had decided in 2012 to sell off its India and Pakistan operations. It signed an agreement to sell its banking business in India to Doha Bank QSC in April last year.

Separately, HSBC Oman announced in November that it was in discussion with Meezan Bank regarding the possible sale of its operations in Pakistan.

Earlier on, Meezan Bank also acquired Pakistan branch operations of HSBC Bank Middle East in October. This resulted in all customers of HSBC Pakistan automatically becoming customers of Meezan Bank.

An indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings, HSBC Bank Pakistan consisted of 10 branches and had total assets of Rs48 billion at the end of 2013.

Meezan Bank already had the experience of acquiring a foreign bank and converting its operations from conventional to Islamic. It acquired Societe Generale in Pakistan through a similar transaction in 2002.

According to Reuters, the sale of HSBC Bank Pakistan was part of a strategy by Europe’s biggest bank to exit from countries where it is unprofitable or lacks scale.

Being the second most populous Muslim country, Pakistan has been a profitable market for Islamic banks. As many as five Islamic banks operate in the country while 14 conventional banks offer Islamic banking services through window operations.

Deposits of Islamic banking institutions crossed the Rs1-trillion mark for the first time, registering year-on-year growth of 23.3% in 2014.

Read : HSBC Bank Oman agrees to sell Pakistan business to Meezan Bank
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