- Business
- Mashreqbank PSC (MASQ.AE), one of the oldest banks in the United Arab Emirates founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dubai, provides a comprehensive range of conventional and Islamic banking services to retail, corporate, SME, and institutional clients across the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The bank operates through Wholesale, Retail, Treasury & Capital Markets, and Insurance & Others segments, offering core products and services including personal banking solutions such as deposits, loans, credit cards, and the digital Mashreq NEO platform with Neo, Neo Nxt, and NeoBiz for individuals and SMEs; corporate and investment banking encompassing trade finance, contracting finance, project finance, cash management, correspondent banking, mergers and acquisitions advisory, IPOs, underwriting, and the Titan platform; NEO CORP for corporate clients; private banking and wealth management; treasury and capital markets; digital IPOs; blockchain services with DIFC; and sustainable financing like green bonds, social bonds, and sustainability-linked loans. Mashreq maintains corporate banking operations in Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and India; retail and corporate services in Egypt; a full-services digital retail bank in Pakistan launched commercially in September 2025 with USD 100 million committed investment by year-end; operational readiness of its GIFT City branch in India announced in October 2025 for foreign currency loans and trade finance; a new representative office in Turkey opened in June 2025; and full-service branches in New York, London, and Hong Kong. Recent developments include the sale of a majority stake in its payments subsidiary NEOPAY to a consortium led by Arcapita and Dgpays for approximately USD 385 million in September 2024 while retaining a significant minority stake; leading a AED 500 million syndicated loan for the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank in September 2024 and a USD 88 million facility for Uzbekistan's Agrobank; co-coordinating a USD 1 billion syndicated term loan for Banque Misr in November 2024; launching NEO CORP in Kuwait; and expanding partnerships such as with Al Etihad Payments for Jaywan Cards acceptance on NEOPAY terminals.