Faysal Bank Ltd. is a holding company, which engages in commercial, retail, and corporate banking activities. It operates through the following segments: Retail Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, Treasury and Equity Capital Market (ECM), Special Asset Management (SAM), and Others. The Retail Banking segment provides services to small borrowers. The Corporate and Investment Banking segment offers working capital financing, trade financing, cash management services, project finance, export finance, leasing, guarantees, bills of exchange, deposits, and other short term and long term finance. The ECM segment includes fixed income, equity, foreign exchanges, funding, own position securities, lending, and repos. The SAM refers to the recoveries from borrowers' accounts which became delinquent. The Others segment covers the other banking-related activities. The company was founded on October 3, 1994 and is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan.