Middle East’s best retail bank 2026: Emirates NBD

Emirates NBD’s retail franchise reached a new level of scale and sophistication in 2025, combining strong balance sheet growth, record profitability and a lead in customer experience.

Its retail banking and wealth management division has become a core driver of group performance, delivering its strongest year ever across lending, deposits and investing.

The bank attained the top position in Euromoney’s ranking of the Middle East’s fastest-growing banks, based on retail relationship acquisition, as well as retail deposits and loans.

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