BACB Snapshot
British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB) speaks Arabic with an English accent. The bank provides trade and project financing for Arab markets, offering such services as project lending, trade financing, bonding and guarantees, and cross-border leasing. Its trade services operations represent the company's largest business segment, generating about one-third of sales. BACB also has offices in Algeria and Libya. The Libyan Foreign Bank (LFB) controls the company after boosting its ownership to more than 80% in 2010.