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Lebanon Payment systems

2 systems listed.

This country doesn’t have a written market analysis yet: e-commerce shares, regulator, and key players are still to be documented. The systems below, however, are verified.

IBAN · Lebanon

28 characters126 BIC codes
Total length
28 characters
Bank code position
5–8
BBAN structure
4!n20!c
Structurally valid example
LBcountry code62check digits0999bank00000001001901229114account

LB62 0999 0000 0001 0019 0122 9114

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OMTMoney transfer agent network that, after Lebanon’s banking collapse, became a substitute payment infrastructure, more accessible than the banking system itself.OMT SAL (licensed by Banque du Liban)More than 1,000 points of sale in Lebanon (OMT, n.d.).
Whish MoneyLebanon’s most visible wallet in merchant acceptance and physical reach, in a country where domestic bank cards have largely stopped working: bill payments, transfers, virtual Visa cards, vouchers, and cash deposits and withdrawals at branches. The figure of 14,000 POS terminals reported in the press for Whish, Zaky, and WeePay combined is not used: it aggregates three services and does not come from the operator.TecFrac (licensed by the Banque du Liban (Lebanon’s central bank); the original entry attributed the service to “Whish Money SAL,” a company name the operator’s website does not use.)Licensed by Banque du Liban Decision No. 19/21/22 of August 10, 2022; more than 1,000 service points in Lebanon (whish.money, accessed August 2026)

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