As one of the leading banks in the UAE, First Gulf Bank (FGB) has Shareholder Equity of more than AED24 billion making it one of the largest equity based banks in the UAE. Established in 1979 and headquartered in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi, the bank provides financial services in various business and industrial areas with a wide network of branches across the Emirates; in addition to the bank's entities in in Singapore and Qatar it has a representative office in India.