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Bank Audi (Iraq branches)

This page sets out what the record shows about Bank Audi (Iraq branches). 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.

بنك عودة، فروع العراق

$196.3m
bought from the Central Bank from 2012 to 2020, in the records that survive. This is a minimum.
Tier A
$2.2m
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
Bank Audi (Iraq branches)
Name in Arabic
بنك عودة، فروع العراق
Type
Branch of a foreign bank (Lebanon)
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
Sherine R. Audi
Chairman
Not stated
January 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingbankaudigroup.com
Khalil I. El Debs
Managing director
Not stated
January 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingbankaudigroup.com
Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), held of record by The Bank of New York Mellon as depositary (holders anonymous)(company)
Shareholder
21.55%
31 March 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingbankaudigroup.com
FRH Investment Holding SAL (Lebanon)(company)
Shareholder
12.25%
31 March 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingbankaudigroup.com
Sheikh Dheyab Bin Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan (United Arab Emirates)
Shareholder
7.96%
31 March 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingbankaudigroup.com
Al-Hobayb Family (Saudi Arabia)
Shareholder
6.05%
31 March 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingbankaudigroup.com
Audi Family (Lebanon)
Shareholder
5.01%
31 March 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingbankaudigroup.com
Bank Audi sal (Lebanon)(company)
Shareholder
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingcbi.iq

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
2017$37m$0$37m0.2%Not stated$1.3m
2018$1.5m$0$1.5m0.9%Not stated$47,600
2019$157.8m$0$157.8m1.4%Not stated$821,564
Total$196.3m$0$196.3mNot stated$2.2m
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

The committee's surviving minutes, from January 2013 to February 2015, record no refusal for this bank.

Enforcement actions

No enforcement action against this bank is recorded here.