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Dijlah & Furat Bank for Development & Investment

This page sets out what the record shows about Dijlah & Furat Bank for Development & Investment. 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 دجلة والفرات للتنمية والاستثمار

$885.6m
bought from the Central Bank from 2012 to 2020, in the records that survive. This is a minimum.
Tier A
$643.7m
asked for but refused by the Central Bank's committee from January 2013 to February 2015
Tier A
$49.5m
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
Dijlah & Furat Bank for Development & Investment
Name in Arabic
مصرف دجلة والفرات للتنمية والاستثمار
Type
Islamic bank
Iraq Stock Exchange ticker
BDFD
Established
24 August 2005
Licence
No. 2029/3/9 of 21 November 2005
Regulatory measures
Under judicial receivership (Central Bank list)
Securities Commission page
Iraq Securities Commissionisc.gov.iq

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
Jacob Joseph Salman
يعقوب يوسف سلمان
Managing director
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingisc.gov.iq
أسيل طارق شهاب
Board member
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingisc.gov.iq
دنيا علاء مرهون
Board member
Not stated
30 September 2026
Not charged as of the date of writingisc.gov.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
2012$5m$0$5m1.9%Not stated$87,500
2013$790.8m$49.8m$741m1.7%$643.7m$43.7m
2015$71.5m$60m$11.5m0.2%$0$5m
2016$12m$420,000$11.6m0.1%Not stated$449,615
2017$6.3m$1.6m$4.7m0.0%Not stated$254,994
Total$885.6m$111.8m$773.8m$643.7m$49.5m
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 51 occasions on which the committee refused all or part of a request by this bank. On those occasions the bank asked for $824.1 million, and $643.7 million of it was refused.

The largest refusals

The largest refusals
DateAsked forRefusedThe reason, as the committee wrote itCategory
1 June 2013$37.1m$37.1mلعدم كفاية رصيد المصرفFunds did not cover the request; Missing or defective documents
30 May 2013$35.1m$35.1mلعدم كفاية رصيد المصرفFunds did not cover the request; Missing or defective documents
2 June 2013$38.3m$34.3mلعدم كفاية الرصيد المصرفFunds did not cover the request; Missing or defective documents
21 May 2013$34.3m$34.3mلعدم كفاية رصيد المصرف 1. تكرار اسماء (شركة الانيق وشركة عبر الخليج) 2. نقصر (punctuation adjusted)Same customer or name repeated; Funds did not cover the request; Missing or defective documents
6 June 2013$31.8m$31.8mلعدم كفاية رصيد المصرف 1. شركة الكرادة والفيحاء والسهيل وبلودان والسنان والافضل والسبر و الاباء !لاغراض تدقيقية )2. شركة السلسبيل والرونق!عدم وجود (punctuation adjusted)Funds did not cover the request; Missing or defective documents; Held for audit
8 June 2013$30.7m$30.7mلعدم كفاية رصيد المصرفFunds did not cover the request; Missing or defective documents
22 May 2013$29.9m$29.9mلعدم كفاية رصيد المصرفFunds did not cover the request; Missing or defective documents
29 May 2013$35.4m$27.4m1. لتقديمه طلبين حوالة احدهما يخالف موعد التقديم2. لتكرار الفاتورة ذكثر من طلب تحويل تسلسل ,3,2,5,6) في كشف الحوالات (punctuation adjusted)Same customer or name repeated
12 June 2013$18.9m$18.9mلعدم قيام المصرف بكتابة اسم الجهة المستفيدة بشكل صريح وتثبيت اختصاص الشركاتMissing or defective documents; Penalty on, or suspension of, the bank
19 June 2013$18.6m$18.6mعدم كفاية رصيد المصرفFunds did not cover the request
18 June 2013$18.6m$18.6mلعدم كفاية رصيد المصرفFunds did not cover the request; Missing or defective documents
3 June 2013$35.1m$17.5mحسب طلب المصرف ك/3/6/2013-2122At the bank's request

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. Iraq Stock ExchangeAccessed 25 September 2026Tier B
    ISX company profiles (companyprofile.html) for 49 listed banks: establishing date, listing date, capital, managing director
    e.g. BHAM مصرف حمورابي: تاريخ التأسيس 26/08/2020؛ تاريخ الإدراج 04/08/2024 | BTRI مصرف عبر العراق للاستثمار: تاريخ التأسيس 21/05/2006 | BLAD مصرف العطاء الاسلامي: تاريخ التأسيس 06/07/2006 | BBAY مصرف بابل: المدير المفوض احمد عباس احمد / الوصي
  2. Iraq Securities CommissionAccessed 25 September 2026 (the page does not show the dates of disclosure)Tier B
    Iraq Securities Commission (هيأة الأوراق المالية) listed-company pages: 'النسب المؤثرة' (significant shareholdings) and 'أعضاء مجلس الإدارة' (board) for banks
    مصرف الاتحاد العراقي ... النسب المؤثرة: 1 عقيل مفتن خفيف البيضاني 13% ... 3 محمد مفتن خفيف البيضاني 13% | أعضاء مجلس الإدارة: عبد الكريم ابراهيم علي رئيس مجلس الادارة ...

    Translation: Union Bank of Iraq ... Significant holdings: Aqeel Meften Khafeef al-Baidhani 13%; Mohammed Meften Khafeef al-Baidhani 13% | Board: Abdul Kareem Ibrahim Ali, chairman ...

  3. 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
  4. 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