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Saudi Fransi Capital Overview

Saudi Fransi Capital (BSF Capital) is a financial services provider owned by Banque Saudi Fransi.

It offers asset management, investment banking, debt and equity research, institutional sales and trading, as well as local and international brokerage.

Its headquarters are in Riyadh and it has locations around Saudi Arabia.

In 1985 Banque Saudi Fransi started offering securities brokerage in Saudi equities, launcing its first asset management fund a year later.

By 2008, the bank had three divisions: brokerage, asset management and investment banking advisory businesses.

In 2011, the entities merged into a wholly owned subsidiary to form Saudi Fransi Capital.

Saudi Fransi Capital News

Flynas operates 1,500 flights a week with an all-Airbus fleet, connecting more than 70 domestic and international destinations

Low-cost carrier Flynas to offload 30% on Saudi bourse

Saudi low-cost carrier Flynas has received the market regulator’s approval to offload nearly a third of its shares on the local stock exchange in the latest of a series of bourse flotations. The airline, partly owned by billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, will sell 51.3 million shares or 30 percent of its stock in an initial public […]

People, Person, Accessories

Flynas secures $132m to acquire 3 A320neo aircraft

Saudi low-cost carrier Flynas has secured a sharia-compliant loan of SAR495 million ($132 million) to acquire three Airbus A320neo aircraft, the airline said in a statement. The funding has been provided by Bank AlJazira, which trades on the Saudi stock exchange, the statement said. The new aircraft are expected to support Flynas’s network coverage, improve operational […]

Flynas IPO

Saudi budget airline Flynas expects IPO approval soon

Saudi low-cost carrier Flynas is likely to get approval soon from the market regulator for its planned listing on the Riyadh stock exchange. Talal Al Maiman, CEO of the airline’s part-owner Kingdom Holding, said in an interview with Al Arabiya TV at the World Economic Forum that Flynas planned to list 30 percent of its […]

More than 50 Saudi Arabian companies are said t be waiting to list on the kingdom’s bourse in 2025

Saudi hospital operator Almoosa announces IPO

Almoosa Health Company has announced plans to launch an initial public offering of 30 percent of its shares on the Saudi stock market. The price range for the offering will be announced on December 4, with the institutional book-building process starting the same day. This will be followed by a retail subscription period from December […]

Saudi Arabia data centre

Four-fold boost to Saudi data centres planned

Saudi Arabia plans to boost its data centre capacity four-fold to more than 1,000 megawatts over the next five years, according to one of the country’s leading data centre providers. The current capacity in the kingdom is approximately 250-300MW. Abdullah Al Ghamdi, CEO of Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS), revealed the target in an interview […]

Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi, head of the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence: 'The rise of generative AI presents ethical dilemmas we must confront head on'

Saudi Arabia pledges to ‘confront’ risks posed by AI

Saudi Arabia is determined to be “at the forefront” of artificial intelligence funding and development, a senior official told an AI conference in Riyadh on Tuesday. However, Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi, head of the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence, also said the kingdom was wary about the security implications of AI and would take […]

PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan says Saudi Arabia has the 'political will' to make AI projects happen

Saudi companies form AI cloud services partnership

The Saudi IT company Al Moammar Information Systems, an investor in the US artificial intelligence (AI) research company OpenAI, has formed a partnership with the investment banker Saudi Fransi Capital to look into launching cloud services for the kingdom’s AI market.  Al Moammar will “recommend an optimal business model considering demand, regulations, and technology, assess […]

Aircraft, Airliner, Airplane

Saudi low-cost airline Flynas to launch IPO

Flynas, the Saudi carrier backed by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, has hired consultants for a potential initial public offering (IPO) in Riyadh. The low-cost airline may go public as early as next year, Bloomberg reported, citing an airline statement. Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan Stanley and Saudi Fransi Capital will work on the IPO. […]

Lumi reported a profit of SAR100 million in the first half of 2023

Lumi’s retail IPO tranche orders hit $333m

Saudi-based car rental company Lumi said the retail tranche of its initial public offering (IPO) was oversubscribed 11.5 times, with demand reaching SAR1.25 billion ($333.25 million). The retail subscription, which took place on September 12, was subscribed by 124,888 investors. It comprised 1,650,000 shares, representing 10 percent of the total offering. Based on the results […]

The Saudi Logistics order book was 72 times oversubscribed

Saudi car rental company aims for $290m from IPO

Saudi-based car rental company Lumi is likely to raise up to SAR1.089 billion ($290 million) after announcing the price range for its initial public offering (IPO) on the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul). The wholly-owned auto rental subsidiary of Riyadh-listed Seera Group Holding set the price range between SAR62 and SAR66 per share, giving the company a […]