United Bank Limited is a Pakistani bank headquartered at I.I. Chundrigar Road in Karachi. It is a subsidiary of British multinational conglomerate, Bestway Group. Founded by Agha Hasan Abedi in 1959, UBL saw its first branch open on I.I. Chundrigar Road in November of the same year. By 1960, the bank had additional branches in Lahore and Faisalabad, as well as Dhaka, Chittagong, and Narayanganj in what was then East Pakistan. The bank was nationalized by the Government of Pakistan in 1974 through the Banks Nationalization Act. The government sold its majority stake in 2002 to Abu Dhabi Group and Bestway Group who retain control to date as of 2025. UBL is Pakistan's largest bank by market capitalization, third-largest by total assets, and fourth-largest by tier 1 capital. It is listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange and has been designated as a domestic systemically important bank by the State Bank of Pakistan. Wikipedia