Jordan
Banking sector profile — Middle East & North Africa
Data as of October 2026 • TGB Intelligence Unit
Structure and performance
Jordan has 19 banks: 14 Jordanian and five foreign, of which four are Islamic, after Invest Bank merged into Bank al Etihad. The sector is internationally oriented. On the IMF's consolidated basis, deposit-taker assets were JD132.3bn (US$186.6bn) in the first quarter of 2026, about three times GDP, reflecting Jordanian banks' operations abroad, above all Arab Bank, whose group assets reached US$78.2bn at end-2025. Domestic intermediation is smaller: banks' credit facilities in Jordan totalled JD37.2bn and deposits JD51.6bn at end-July 2026.