2. Saudi National Bank (SNB)
Country: Saudi Arabia
Acting CEO : Talal Ahmed Al Khereiji
Market value: $56.4 billion
As of December 2022, SNB employed 15,906 people across 494 branches and 16 retail service centers in Saudi Arabia and four overseas branches in Bahrain, the U.A.E., Qatar, and Singapore. Its net profit hit $5 billion in 2022, an increase of 46.5% compared to 2021, with over 12.2 million customers across eight countries. SNB acquired a 9.88% stake in Credit Suisse for $1.5 billion in late 2022 but lost nearly $1.2 billion on its investment after UBS’s acquisition of Credit Suisse in March 2023. SNB says that this will have no impact on its growth plans as it constituted less than 0.5% of SNB’s total assets and 1.7% of its investment portfolio as of the end of 2022. Saudi’s Public Investment Fund owns 37.2% of SNB.