Lebanon Law Enacted 2022-10-26

Banking Secrecy Reform Law

قانون رفع السرية المصرفية

Summary

Amended Lebanon's 1956 banking secrecy law to allow government authorities access to bank records as a precondition for IMF rescue talks.

Impact

Considered a milestone for transparency; criticized as too narrow by reform advocates and over-broad by the banking sector.

Sources

summary www.reuters.com 2026-06-07 — Reuters

Permalink https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/lb-banking-secrecy-2022

How to cite

This is a citation for the legislation itself — credited to Parliament of Lebanon and dated to its 2022 introduction. Tayyar is the retrieval surface, not the author. A separate "Retrieved via" line records that you accessed it through this dataset.

In-text: (Parliament of Lebanon, 2022)

APA 7Institutional author

Parliament of Lebanon. (2022). Banking Secrecy Reform Law [Legislation]. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/lb-banking-secrecy-2022. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/lb-banking-secrecy-2022.

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Parliament of Lebanon. 2022. “Banking Secrecy Reform Law.” Legislation. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/lb-banking-secrecy-2022. Accessed June 21, 2026.

BibTeXLaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-bill-lb-banking-secrecy-2022,
  title     = {{Banking Secrecy Reform Law}},
  author    = {{Parliament of Lebanon}},
  year      = {2022},
  date      = {2022-10-26},
  type      = {Legislation},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/lb-banking-secrecy-2022},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {Retrieved via Tayyar on June 21, 2026}
}