{"id":230,"date":"2025-11-29T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/?p=230"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:00:25","slug":"the-sun-always-shines-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Always Shines in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another trip to finalise the transfer of the retail side of the bank in Bahrain. Another great local team, supported by a robust central management, ensured a smooth transaction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HSBC has sold its retail banking operations in Bahrain to the Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait (BBK). This transfer includes approximately 76,000 customer accounts and is part of HSBC&#8217;s global restructuring strategy. The transaction was completed on the 30th of November 2025, and  BBK will continue to offer services to HSBC customers, including retail loans, deposits, and credit cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another trip to finalise the transfer of the retail side of the bank in Bahrain. Another great local team, supported by a robust central management, ensured a smooth transaction. HSBC has sold its retail banking operations in Bahrain to the Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait (BBK). This transfer includes approximately 76,000 customer accounts and is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/?p=230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sun Always Shines in Bahrain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,37,44,41,36,38,5],"tags":[7,43,30,42,25],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-testing","category-business-review","category-data-migration","category-divestment","category-management","category-project-management","category-testing","tag-banking-transformation","tag-data-migration","tag-hsbc","tag-project-management","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}