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Global Financial Service Disruptions
Lebanese banks (Association of Banks in Lebanon)
commercial bank · LB · Middle East
Mixed or cascadingStatus: resolvedTier 1Severity 4 of 5Evidence confidence: highAnalyst-verified
On 7 October 2022 Lebanese banks again closed to clients indefinitely after daily hold-ups by depositors. Some banks kept urgent operations and business back-office services running.
- First disruption
- Oct 7
- First public signal
- unknown
- Acknowledged
- Oct 7
- Restored
- resolved, time unknown
- Duration
- not established
- DFX first recorded
- Nov 5 14:58 UTC
What was restricted
allScope: sector wide
Front-office services suspended indefinitely; some urgent operations and back-office services continued.
Cause, kept in separate layers
- What the institution said
- Repeated hold-ups by depositors seeking frozen funds
- DFX classification
- Mixed or cascading (cyber: unconfirmed)
Evidence
- Al Jazeera / Reuters · 2022-10-07
- Irish Times · 2022-10-07