Tunisia

Active marketChecked 2026-11-14 · confidence high

Banking Law 2016-48 lists Islamic banking operations as banking business. The central bank's 2025 supervision report (Oct 2026) names Wifak International Bank, Banque Zitouna and Al Baraka Bank Tunisia as its three licensed banks specialised in Islamic banking, and Wifak's own site sells named products such as Tamouil Sayaret Al Wifak.

Five checks

Banking rulesFound

Law 2016-48 of 11 July 2016 on banks and financial institutions lists Islamic banking operations among banking operations (Art. 4) and requires banks that carry them out to set up a committee to check conformity with Islamic banking standards. The central bank's supervision page says a bank needs a licence from the licensing commission to specialise in Islamic banking, while conventional banks may offer these operations with central bank authorisation.

Licensed banks and windowsFound
  • “Wifak International Bank (WIB), Banque Zitouna et Al Baraka Bank Tunisia.”
    Banque Centrale de Tunisie · 2026-10
  • “spécialisées dans l’activité bancaire islamique”
    Banque Centrale de Tunisie · 2026-10
  • “Un financement (alternatif au crédit à intérêt) basé sur la technique MOURABAHA conformément aux principes de la finance islamique.”
    Wifak Bank
  • “« Sayarat Al Baraka » est conforme aux principes de la finance islamique.”
    Al Baraka Bank Tunisie
  • “spécialisée dans la commercialisation de produits financiers conformes aux principes de la Finance Islamique”
    Banque Zitouna
Sukuk issuedFound
  • Zitouna Tamkeen (issuer inferred from the instrument name "SUKUK ZITOUNA TAMKEEN 2023"), issued without a public offering · 2023 · not stated on the CMF listing
Takaful (non-interest insurance)Found

Zitouna Takaful sells takaful products on its own site. The legal basis in the insurance code and the regulator's list of takaful operators were not read, because the insurance regulator's site (cga.gov.tn) returned an error.

  • “le Takaful fonctionne sur un principe de partage des risques entre les participants au sein d'un fonds commun.”
    Zitouna Takaful
Capital market rulesFound

The CMF's reference texts include a section on Islamic sukuk: Law 2013-30 of 30 July 2013 on Islamic sukuk, Government Decrees 2017-1333 and 2017-1332 of 6 December 2017 on sukuk fund managers and sukuk common funds, and Decree 2018-579 of 22 June 2018 on sukuk issuance by private-sector institutions.

Recent developments

  1. 2026-10The central bank's 2025 supervision report says banks carrying out Islamic operations held 7.4% of banking assets, 8.4% of deposits and 8.4% of loans at end-2025, with 298 branches. source
  2. 2023-12-22CMF listed the issue of SUKUK ZITOUNA TAMKEEN 2023 without a public offering. source

Still open

Points we could not confirm at source yet.

  • Tunisian sovereign sukuk: press reports plans in 2014 and 2015, and a 2014 TND 500m issue that was a conventional bond. No sovereign sukuk issue was confirmed.
  • Islamic windows in conventional banks were not listed.
  • Banque Zitouna's product pages were not read.
  • Takaful legal basis and full operator list (El Amana Takaful and others) were not verified at the insurance regulator.
  • Size of the Zitouna Tamkeen 2023 sukuk.
Where we searched
  • bct.gov.tn: supervision page (id=59), 2025 banking supervision report PDF, Law 2016-48 PDF (scanned Journal Officiel; read as images), circular 2026-05; a scan of page ids 1 to 260 for a bank list
  • oif.bct.gov.tn/liste_banques (the central bank's bank list): HTTP 500 maintenance page on 14 Nov 2026
  • cmf.tn: Other sukuk operations, Reference texts (downloaded)
  • cga.gov.tn (insurance regulator): HTTP 503
  • finances.gov.tn: no connection
  • banquezitouna.com, albaraka.com.tn, wifakbank.com, zitounatakaful.com (downloaded); elamanatakaful.com.tn (TLS error in earlier pass)
  • Web search for a Tunisian sovereign sukuk (press shows plans in 2014 and 2015, no issue confirmed)