Press Releases

With the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) giving higher priority to combating unlicensed banking or financial activities carried out by natural persons (individuals) or legal entities (corporate) to carry out banking or financial transactions without valid licenses, and without oversight by any supervisory authority to which such activities must subject, given the possibility of such transactions being exploited for money laundering and terrorist financing, and whereas the Central Bank of Kuwait seeks positive participation from all entities and individuals in society in this regard, in order to successfully combat these illegal activities, the following telephone line and email address have been set up to receive any reports or information from the public on such unlicensed activities:

Phone number : 22972999 

Email address : unlicensed@cbk.gov.kw

The Central Bank of Kuwait hopes for active participation to help curb these unauthorized and unlicensed activities and the potential damages or financial losses to the public, and the adverse repercussions on the economy of the State of Kuwait.