Kuwait Finance House (KFH) has ranked 1^st for Best Performing Bank in Kuwait, for The Banker’s Top 1000 Global Banks Rankings 2025. This prestigious ranking underscores KFH’s exceptional financial performance, highlighting the unwavering commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

The Banker magazine has developed a model which scores and ranks banks in 8 key performance categories and assigns an overall best performing bank score and ranking.  The performance categories and indicators include growth, profitability, operational efficiency, impairment charges to total operating income, return on risk, liquidity, soundness - capital adequacy ratio, and leverage.

Commenting on this ranking, Group Chief Executive Officer at KFH, Khaled Yousef AlShamlan stated: "It is with great pleasure that KFH received the highest ranking among banks in Kuwait for best performance. We will continue our endeavors to receive high rankings and prestigious awards from prominent international institutions, which validate KFH’s exceptional performance and leadership and reflect the trust and confidence of our shareholders and customers in our institution."

AlShamlan pointed out that KFH is continuing its efforts towards raising the pace of operational performance as well as moving forward on digital transformation and innovation, while putting forth extra efforts in serving customers and leading the Islamic financial services industry at the level of the Group that has a presence in 10 countries worldwide, including Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, Turkey, the UK, and Germany, supported by an extensive network of over 600 branches.

Financial performance in H1- 2025

Speaking about the latest financial results, AlShamlan indicated that KFH topped the Kuwaiti banking sector in terms of net profits for H1- 2025 that approximated KD 342.1 million. KFH’s net financing income reached KD 607.3 million; an increase of 8.7% compared to the same period last year. Supported by the increase in all core activities, total operating income reached KD 876 million; an increase of 6.4% compared to the same period last year.

Net operating income reached KD 566.7 million, an increase of 7.9% compared to the same period last year. Financing receivables at the end of the first half of 2025 reached KD 20.4 billion, an increase of 7.1 % compared to the end of last year.

The Banker is an English-language international financial magazine owned by Financial Times Ltd and published in 1926. It is an authoritative source of global financial analysis and data-driven intelligence.  The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks ranking has been setting the industry benchmark since 1970, providing comprehensive intelligence about the health and wealth of the banking sector