With some 111 or more branches, it is also the commercial bank with the oldest continuous history in the country.

In 2011, the government of the United States of America lifted its sanctions on Bank of Khartoum.

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control posted a notice on its website that it had removed Bank of Khartoum from the blacklist, meaning Bank of Khartoum could seek the return of blocked assets and resume limited dealings with U.S. financial institutions.

After World War II, Ottoman Bank in 1948 established a branch in Khartoum.

Dubai Islamic's ownership will drop to 28 percent of the merged bank.