Foreign Trade Bank (FTB)

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 5 authorities: Australia DFAT, UN Security Council, Taiwan International Trade Administration, UK OFSI, Switzerland SECO. Includes a UN Security Council listing, which binds every member state. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
• Debarment & exclusion— Checked, nothing found16 sources read, none holding a record for this company.
• Ownership & controlRecords foundControlled by a designated company: KOREA KWANGSON BANKING CORPORATION.
• People— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Identity & registration— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• JurisdictionRecords foundNorth Korea is named on a jurisdiction designation list — European Commission, EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9), section III: “High-risk third countries which present ongoing and substantial money-laundering and terrorist-financing risks, having repeatedly failed to address the identified deficiencies and which are identified by FATF Public Statement.” That is a call for action, the strongest category these lists carry. The designation is of the jurisdiction, not of this record.
• Court records— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.

• Taiwan International Trade AdministrationActive

  Strategic high-tech commodities entity list

  Designation date not published by this authority · Taiwan SHTC export entity list

• Switzerland SECOActive

  North Korea

  Designated 5 Aug 2017 · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

• Australia DFATActive

  1718 (DPRK)

  Designated 20 Feb 2026 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

• UK OFSIActive

  Democratic People's Republic of Korea

  Designated 5 Aug 2017 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

• UN Security CouncilActive

  DPRK

  Designated 5 Aug 2017 · UN Security Council Consolidated List

No people recorded against this company. Officer and ownership data comes from national business registers, and the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists — so a sanctioned company frequently has none.

Legal name

Foreign Trade Bank (FTB)

Also known as

Foreign Trade Bank (FTB) · Mooyokbank · Korea Trading Bank · FOREIGN TRADE BANK (FTB)

Jurisdiction

KP

Address

FTB Building, Jungsong-dong, Central District Pyongyang Democratic People's Republic of Korea

First recorded here

21 Jul 2026

1. Sanction listed: UK OFSI — Democratic People's Republic of Korea

   10 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

2. Sanction listed: Australia DFAT — 1718 (DPRK)

   10 Sept 2026 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

3. Sanction listed: Taiwan International Trade Administration — Strategic high-tech commodities entity list

   10 Sept 2026 · Taiwan SHTC export entity list

4. Parent company recorded: KOREA KWANGSON BANKING CORPORATION

   28 Aug 2026 · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

5. Sanction listed: UN Security Council — DPRK

   22 Jul 2026 · UN Security Council Consolidated List

6. Alias recorded: FOREIGN TRADE BANK (FTB)

   22 Jul 2026 · UN Security Council Consolidated List

No ownership test is on file for this company. The test reads who holds a company's shares from its shareholder register, and it is run each day for companies with a number in Estonia's, Latvia's or Poland's register. For a company anywhere else, no register read here states its shareholders, so the test cannot be run.

No people recorded against this company. Officer data comes from national business registers, and a company outside those jurisdictions will have none here even when its officers are publicly known elsewhere.

3 companies, 2 recorded links, up to two steps from this record. Open the full graph ›

No other company on file shares FTB Building, Jungsong-dong, Central District Pyongyang Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Each reading is kept with the methodology version that produced it. A later reading is not a correction of an earlier one — it is a different question asked of more sources.

• Fact

  foreign trade bank (ftb)

  Legal name

  Evidence

  13536

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 6 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 5 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  KP

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  13536

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 4 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 3 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Democratic People's Republic of Korea

  Designation

  Evidence

  13536

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Australia DFAT — 1718 (DPRK)

  Designation

  Evidence

  3279

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Taiwan International Trade Administration — Strategic high-tech commodities entity list

  Designation

  Evidence

  c921cab53ab6cbe7ac43f24f

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity list

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UN Security Council — DPRK

  Designation

  Evidence

  6908622

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UN Security Council Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Switzerland SECO — North Korea

  Designation

  Evidence

  37021

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

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TRUE

A source states it. Rendered as a fact, with the source attached.

FALSE

A source explicitly denies it. Rare, and never inferred from silence.

UNKNOWN

Checked, nothing found. Rendered as an em dash, never as 0 or "no".

NOT_ASSESSED

Never checked — nothing was read here. Excluded from coverage, and not counted as clean.

9 records on this company — identifiers, aliases, officers, listings, figures — each carry the source that wrote them and are shown beside their own entries. The fields above are different: the entities table has no source column, so what is shown is every source whose stored payload contains the value verbatim. That is strong evidence, not proof of which write landed it, and where nothing contains the value the row says so instead of naming a plausible source.