Buy bitcoin with Fawri / Fawri+

What is Fawri / Fawri+?

Fawri and Fawri+ are the two transfer speeds inside Bahrain's Electronic Fund Transfer System, which the BENEFIT Company operates under authorisation from the Central Bank of Bahrain and which links the kingdom's retail banks. Fawri+ is the near real time option: you supply the beneficiary IBAN and the amount, and the money arrives within 30 seconds, any hour of any day. Fawri is the slower, higher value option, settling within hours on official working days, and since October 2025 the central bank also settles Fawri transactions above BD 3,000 during public holidays.

Speed

Fawri+ credits the beneficiary within 30 seconds and is available 24x7x365, while Fawri settles in a matter of hours on official working days, and since October 2025 on public holidays as well.

Cost

Your own bank sets the charge for both services rather than BENEFIT, and the central bank does not publish a consumer price on its payments page.

Limits

Fawri+ carries a daily cap per account, raised from BD 1,000 to BD 3,000 on 21 July 2025 by Central Bank of Bahrain directive, and anything above it has to go through Fawri instead.

Speed and cost describe the rail itself. What an exchange adds on top varies by platform and is shown per exchange below.

Using Fawri / Fawri+ in Bahrain

Fawri / Fawri+ appears in one country guide on this site, Bahrain, where deposits settle in Bahraini dinar (BHD). Buyers there fund exchange accounts with Credit or debit card, International wire as well, and the country guide ranks the exchanges that take each one.

Buy bitcoin with Fawri / Fawri+ in Bahrain