Company Information
First Women Bank Ltd. is a unique financial institution and commercial bank of its kind in the world. In 1989 FWBL was incorporated as a Scheduled Commercial Bank under the Companies Ordinance, 1984 as a joint venture of five largest Commercial Banks and Government of Pakistan.
The Government of Pakistan now owns majority shareholding (80.16%) in the Bank. The remaining shares are held by the five big commercial banks – NBP, HBL, MCB, UBL and ABL.
The establishment of FWBL was an innovative and bold step conceived by the then Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (Shaheed) who envisioned a bank that would undertake the conduct of all forms of business of Banking Company in a manner designed to meet the special needs of women and to encourage and assist them in promotion and running of trade and industry and practice of profession.