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Type
  
Public

Number of employees
  
6,601

Industry
  
Banking

Founded
  
Beirut (1830)

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Headquarters
  
Audi Plaza, Beirut, Lebanon

Area served
  
Lebanon Europe (Suisse, France, Monaco) Turkey MENA (Egypt, Jordan, KSA, Qatar, Iraq, UAE)

Subsidiaries
  
Lebanon, Audi Investment Bank sal, Audi Private Bank sal, Solifac Europe Banque Audi (Suisse) sa, Bank Audi France sa, Audi Capital Gestion sam Turkey Odea Bank A.Ṣ. MENA, Bank Audi sal - Jordan Branches, Bank Audi sae (Egypt), Audi Capital (KSA) cjsc, Bank Audi LLC (Qatar), Bank Audi sal - Iraq Branches, Arabeya Online Brokerage, Bank Audi sal - Abu Dhabi Representative Office

CEO
  
Samir N. Hanna (Apr 2013–)

Profiles

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Bank Audi is a regional group with a universal banking profile. The Bank offers universal financial products and services including Corporate, Commercial, Retail and Personal, and Private Banking services in addition to Investment Banking and Factoring. As at End-December 2016, Bank Audi’s private customers’ deposits reached USD 36 billion, with shareholders’ equity reaching USD 3.8 billion. Bank Audi’s group staff headcount exceeds 7,000 employees and its shareholders’ base encompasses more than 1,500 holders of common shares and/or holders of Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) representing common shares.

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Bank Audi S.A.L. is Lebanon's largest bank in terms of both customer deposits and total assets. Bank Audi currently operates 84 branches in Lebanon and a network of 470 ATMs. Its roots date back to 1830, when Hanna Audi inherited his father's exchange business. Bank Audi SAL was granted the "Best Bank in Lebanon" award at the 2009 Euromoney Awards for Excellence Middle East ceremony.

In 2016, Bank Audi ranked on the Forbes Magazine Global 2000 list of largest public companies in the world. Largest shareholder of the company is the Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, acting as trustee for the holders of GDRs issued by the bank.

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Corporate Art Collection

Bank Audi was the first Lebanese bank to create a comprehensive corporate art collection, located in three of the bank’s buildings. The villa, or historical headquarters situated steps from the Rue Sursock shelters mosaics and other pieces from Antiquity. The new headquarters, designed by Kevin Dash in Beirut Central District houses modern and contemporary art from Europe (Raoul Dufy, Édouard Vuillard, Bernard Buffet, Jacques Villon, Paul Delvaux and Tour Dentelièrea large sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in the atrium) and Lebanon (Shafic Abboud, Hanibal Srouji, Lamia Joreige, Chaouki Chamoun, Jean-Marc Nahas, Paul Wakim, Mohammad Rawas, Hussein Madi). The Geneva headquarters has an ensemble of Old Master Paintings (Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Abel Grimmer, Frans Snyders, Jan van Goyen, Jacob van Ruisdael).

Latest Figures

As at December 31, 2016, Bank Audi sal and its consolidated subsidiaries had 7,017 employees, including 3,331 persons employed in Lebanon and 1,680 persons employed at Odeabank in Turkey. Bank Audi saw its net profits in 2016, growing by 17% relative to 2015,. Bank Audi ranked first among Lebanese banking groups in terms of total assets (LL 66,926 billion), shareholders’ equity (LL 5,711 billion), customers’ deposits (LL 54,203 billion) and loans and advances (LL 26,145 billion).

References

Bank Audi Wikipedia