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Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB Iraq)

This page sets out what the record shows about Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB Iraq). It names the owners and managers, gives the dollars the bank bought from the Central Bank in the years whose records survive, lists the requests that the Central Bank refused and describes the action that regulators took against the bank.

مصرف أبوظبي الإسلامي

$993.6m
bought from the Central Bank from 2012 to 2020, in the records that survive. This is a minimum.
Tier A
$33.6m
asked for but refused by the Central Bank's committee from January 2013 to February 2015
Tier A
$39m
the value of the gap between the official and the market price on the dollars it bought, which went to whoever received the dollars
Tier B

Name, licence and status

Name in English
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB Iraq)
Name in Arabic
مصرف أبوظبي الإسلامي
Type
Branch of a foreign bank (UAE)
Licence
No. 1740/3/9 of 6 October 2010
Regulatory measures
No sanction, ban or fine recorded as of the date of writing

Ownership

The Iraq Securities Commission page names no shareholder with about 10 per cent or more. The shareholder tables of the annual reports are not yet in the record.

Owners and managers

Being listed here records an ownership stake or a post at the bank. It is not an allegation. Next to each name is the exact legal status. Where the encyclopedia holds a record of the name, the status comes from that record. Otherwise it reads “Not charged as of the date of writing”.
Owners and managers
NameRoleShareAs ofLegal statusSource
Abdulla Al Shehhi
Chairman
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.iq
H.E. Jawaan Awaidha Suhail Awaidha Al Khaili
Chairman
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.ae
Muhammed Al Qumbarji
محمد اشرف القمبرجي
Managing director
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingcbi.iq
Michael Murray
Board member
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.iq
Muhammed Al Qumbarji
Board member
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.iq
Afzal Khanani
Board member
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.iq
Osaid M. A. Kailani
Board member
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.iq
Mohammed Al Fahim
Board member
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.iq
Adnan Faour
Board member
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.iq
Talha Syed Karim
Board member
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.iq
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank PJSC (ADIB, UAE)(company)
ابو ظبي الاسلامي
Shareholder
100%
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingcbi.iq
Emirates International Investment Company LLC(company)
Shareholder
39.4%
31 December 2025
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.ae
Emirates National Bank of Dubai PJSC(company)
Shareholder
6.78%
31 December 2025
Not charged as of the date of writingadib.ae

Dollars bought from the Central Bank

Dollars bought from the Central Bank, by year

In millions of dollars. Verified rows of the Central Bank's daily records.

Source: Central Bank of Iraq, daily records of the dollar sale, compiled from the verified rowsTier A
Dollars bought from the Central Bank
YearDollars boughtCashTransfers abroadShare of the year's named salesRefusedValue of the price gap
2013$25.2m$24m$1.2m0.1%$28.4m$1.3m
2014$14.8m$14.8m$00.0%$5.2m$362,297
2015$114.2m$0$114.2m0.4%$0$3.5m
2016$194.4m$0$194.4m0.7%Not stated$14.2m
2017$644.4m$0$644.4m3.2%Not stated$19.7m
2018$580,000$0$580,0000.4%Not stated$18,405
Total$993.6m$38.8m$954.8m$33.6m$39m
Source: Central Bank of Iraq, daily records of the dollar sale, compiled from the verified rowsTier A
Source: the price gap is our calculation from the Central Bank's price and the market priceTier B

Share of the year's named sales: the bank's part of all the dollars that the surviving records attribute to a named bank in that year.

Refused: the requests that the Central Bank's committee turned down. Its minutes survive only from January 2013 to February 2015. An empty cell means that no minutes survive for that year. The yearly figures come from the yearly ledger. The figure at the top of the page comes from the committee's minutes. The two can differ.

What the Central Bank refused

From January 2013 to February 2015 the Central Bank's committee recorded, day by day, which requests for dollars it turned down and why. Its minutes record 12 occasions on which the committee refused all or part of a request by this bank. On those occasions the bank asked for $40.4 million, and $33.6 million of it was refused.

The largest refusals

The largest refusals
DateAsked forRefusedThe reason, as the committee wrote itCategory
3 April 2013$4m$4mعدم وجود مخول ثاني وعدم وجود سكنر 1. لاغراض تدقيقية تتعلق بالزبون (punctuation adjusted)Missing or defective documents; Held for audit
8 May 2013$4m$4mمخالفة التعليمات وعدم وجود توقيع المخولينMissing or defective documents
28 August 2013$4m$4mلعدم ادراج اسم الام في القوائم المرفقةMissing or defective documents
4 September 2013$4m$4mسبب تكرار الاسماء في قوانم البيعSame customer or name repeated
23 October 2013$4m$4mعدم توقيع المدير المفوض على كتاب الشراءPenalty on, or suspension of, the bank
date unreadable$4m$4mتديم للمعاملة فى نفس يوم العزادOther
21 November 2013$4m$4mعل اساجة الشرايا جوالرات شار في قوم قيح وOther
14 May 2014$4m$4mاستبعاد بالكامل كون قيد التحويل RTGS استة ايام عمل وليس سبعة ايام عل وحسب التعليمات 588 في 2014/2/6Funds did not cover the request
5 June 2014$4m$1.2mتم استبعاد مبلغ 1203 دولار استنادا لتعليمات البنك المركزي المرقم 19/3/9 لسنة 2014 الفقرة د-13Other
20 March 2013$270,000$270,000مقدم في نفس اليومOther
3 February 2013$97,000$97,0001. تاريخ الاقرا يجب ان يكون مطابق لتاريخ التحويل وعدم وجود نسخة السويفت الخاصة بالاعتماد (punctuation adjusted)Missing or defective documents
19 February 2014$4m$5,000لتكرار اسم واحد مع مصرف الاتحادSame customer or name repeated

Each reason is quoted in Arabic, in the committee's words. Where a reason is marked “punctuation adjusted”, only its punctuation was changed. The category is ours.

Source: Central Bank of Iraq, daily minutes of the committee that ran the dollar sale, from January 2013 to February 2015Tier A

All the refusals, day by day

Enforcement actions

No enforcement action against this bank is recorded here.

Sources

The documents behind this page, with the words quoted from each.
  1. Central Bank of IraqAccessed 25 September 2026Tier B
    المصارف الاهلية المحلية (Private local banks: licence numbers/dates, managers, status marks)
    الأقليم التجاري للاستثمار والتمويل ( اميرالد سابقا ) ... 408/3/9 2007/3/1 | الهدى ( ممنوع من التعامل بالدولار ) ... 136/3/9 2008/1/14 | مصرف بابل ( تصفية ) ( ممنوع من التعامل بالدولار ) ... المصفي، د.أحمد عباس أحمد | دار السلام للأستثمار ( حراسة قضائية ) | الشمال للتمويل والاستثمار ( وصاية ) | الطيف الإسلامي للإستثمار… Read the rest والتمويل ( وصاية )( ممنوع من التعامل بالدولار ) | المال الإسلامي للإستثمار ( ممنوع من التعامل بالدولار ) ... 845/3/9 في 2018/12/9
    (punctuation adjusted)

    Translation: Region Trade Bank for Investment & Finance (formerly Emerald) ... licence 408/3/9 of 1 Mar 2007 | Al-Huda (barred from USD dealing) ... licence 136/3/9 of 14 Jan 2008 | Babylon Bank (liquidation) (barred from USD) ... liquidator Dr Ahmed Abbas Ahmed | Dar Es Salaam (judicial receivership) | North Bank (guardianship) | Al-Taif Islamic (guardianship)(barred from USD) | Al-Mal Islamic (barred from USD) ... licence 845/3/9 of 9 Dec 2018

    Original
  2. Central Bank of IraqAccessed 25 September 2026Tier B
    فروع المصارف الأجنبية التجارية والاسلامية (Foreign bank branches)
    ملي ايران ( وصاية ) ( ممنوع من التعامل بالدولار ) ... 2650/3/9 2005/9/28 | بنك بارسيان ( وصاية ) ( ممنوع من التعامل بالدولار ) ... 46/3/9 2012/1/3 | بنك مياب ش.م.ل ( تصفية ) ... 11724/3/9 2014/8/7 | فرنسبنك ( تصفية ) | البحر المتوسط ( تصفيه ) | إنتركونتيننتال لبنان ( تصفية )
    Original
  3. Central Bank of Iraq23 October 2025Tier A
    النشرة الإحصائية السنوية / Annual Statistical Bulletin (2024 data; PDF created 23 Oct 2025), banks' establishment year, total assets, paid-up capital (pages 116 to 117) and ISX listing table (p.113)
    Region Trade Bank for Investment 2007 1,051,981 300,000 مصرف الاقليم التجاري( اميرالد) | AL-Huda Bank 2008 412,604 250,000 | Erbil Bank 2010 | International Development Bank 2011 | Hammurabi Commercial Bank 2020 | Ur Islamic Bank 2018 334,815 250,000
    Original

In the press

Articles that name the bank, newest first. Each headline is given in the publication's own words.