# Riyad Bank (بنك الرياض)

> Riyad Bank is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-09-08.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: No Outreach
- Company: [Riyad Bank](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/riyad-bank.md)
- Categories: Banking
- Official site: https://www.riyadbank.com
- Community votes: 4
- Last updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/riyad-bank

## About

Saudi retail and corporate bank offering accounts, cards, transfers and financing through its app and online banking

## Activity summary

Blocked in Syria. Community testing in September 2026 found the banking app hangs indefinitely on a loading spinner with no error page served, so the mechanism behind the failure is not established.

## Community reports

- 2026-09-08 — Investigated. Community testing from Syria found the Riyad Bank app unusable: it opens to its branded screen and then hangs indefinitely on a loading spinner, serving no error page or block notice. The account holder reports every Saudi bank app failing the same way while visiting Syria. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/m5uym85q07fcgwaqlhviw6km/afjkrt59come6iwvtonsaprq.jpg)

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/riyad-bank?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/riyad-bank/timeline-entries?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/riyad-bank
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/riyad-bank.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/riyad-bank.md