NBB Group to migrate its SWIFT system to Amazon Web Services

NBB Group to migrate its SWIFT system to Amazon Web Services

The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) Group announced that it is the first bank in the MENA region to have partnered with Allied Engineering Group (AEG), one of the largest worldwide SWIFT Service Bureaus with banks from over 65 countries worldwide connected to its data centres, to migrate the Bank's international remittance system (SWIFT) to Amazon Web Service cloud (AWS).  This marks as an important step towards transforming how NBB Group is positioning the cloud at the centre of their digital transformation roadmap.  This is in line with the Government of Bahrain's cloud adoption strategy. The move will open the door for other financial institutions in Bahrain and the MENA region to follow suit and will help streamline systems, increase service availability, and reduce costs, with the highest levels of security.



The partnership between NBB Group and AEG enables the SWIFT migration to the latter's expanded certified SWIFT infrastructure hosted on AWS, leveraging the local presence of its regional data centres located within the Kingdom of Bahrain.



A virtual signing ceremony between NBB Group and AEG was held on the 28th of January 2021. The ceremony was attended by Razi Amin, NBB Head of Information Technology, Ali AlSaegh, NBB