At BDB, we offer you a wide range of distinctive financial services which are tailored to meet your special needs, for the development of your small or medium-sized projects in the industrial and service sectors of Bahrain.

Whether you are setting up a challenging new entrepreneurial venture or expanding, diversifying or modernizing your existing business in the Kingdom of Bahrain, will advice you on raising financial resources.

With a paid in capital of BD 50 million, a commitment by the Government to arrange for additional funding as well as having access to regional and international fund, the Bank's initial thrust is towards small and medium sized enterprises, but as a mobilizer of funds as well as ideas it is able to provide substantially towards the socio-economic development in the Kingdom.

BDB commenced operations on January 20, 1992 as the country's premier Development Financial Institution. The Government had entrusted the Bank with the vital task of promoting investments in Bahrain, with the aim of diversifying the economic base, therby creating new employment opportunities for Bahrainis and contributing significantly to the overall socio-economic development of the country.

Over the years, BDB has extended its innovative mix of financial services to reach a large number of entrepreneurs, spread across a broad range of economic sub-sectors, including manufacturing, tourism, health, education, fisheries, agriculture, professionals, and other value-adding service activities.

By acting as an effective catalyst in the complex national economic programme of capital creation, employment generation, export promotion, import subsititution, technological upgradation, privatization and manpower development, BDB has come to be widely recognized as a vigorous and successful promoter of well-planned, market-driven business enterprises in Bahrain.