The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) was founded in 1968.
NBAD is ranked by Global Finance in its World’s top 50 Safest Banks since 2009, and the Safest Bank in the Emerging Markets and the Safest Bank in the Middle East.
NBAD’s long term ratings are now amongst the strongest combined ratings of any global financial institution. The Bank is rated senior long term/short term AA-/A-1+by Standard & Poor's (S&P), Aa3/P1 by Moody’s, AA-/F1+ by Fitch, A+ by Rating and Investment Information Inc (R&I) Japan, and AAA by RAM (Malaysia).
NBAD operates in 18 countries across five continents; stretching from China and Hong Kong in the Far East to Malaysia in Southeast Asia; Oman, UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain in the G.C.C.; Jordan and Lebanon in the Levant; Egypt, Sudan, and Libya in Africa; France, Switzerland, Channel Islands, and UK in Europe; the USA in North America, and Brazil in South America.
NBAD growth plans are strategised across the West-East Corridor, an expansive area stretching from West Africa to the Far East. NBAD strategy is to build five international bank franchises in the largest and fastest growing economies in the West-East Corridor. Moreover, NBAD will operate 8 banking hubs across this region to further grow its wholesale banking business.
Closer to home, NBAD’s vision is to build the largest, safest and best performing bank first in the UAE, and over time in GCC.
NBAD became a public joint stock company in 2000, bringing to the market nearly 30% of its shares when Abu Dhabi Stock Market (ADSM) was founded. (ADSM was renamed Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) in 2008.
