Iron Bank of Braavos

The wealthiest bank in the known world, and the Crown's creditor.

The Iron Bank is based in Braavos and is one of the wealthiest banks in the known world. Braavos is full of moneylenders, and the Iron Bank lends to foreign states, above all to the Crown of the Seven Kingdoms, which has borrowed millions from it.

Quick Facts

City: Braavos
Chief debtor: The Iron Throne

Lore & Background

Tycho Nestoris appears in the books as a representative of the Iron Bank. In A Dance with Dragons Stannis Baratheon plans to send Ser Justin Massey to Braavos to use a loan from the bank to hire twenty thousand sellswords.

Reader's Guide

The bank's home city of Braavos has its own page in this codex, covering the Titan, the Faceless Men and the city's other landmarks.

In the television series Davos Seaworth writes to the Iron Bank in Stannis's name to pay for an army. The bank nearly refuses, until Davos argues that Stannis is the only claimant they can turn to because Tywin Lannister is growing old.