Zainul Haque Sikder, Chairman of National Bank Limited, inaugurates the 31st anniversary of the bank by cutting a cake at a function in Dhaka on Sunday. National Bank Limited celebrated its 31st anniversary in Dhaka on Sunday.

Zainul Haque Sikder, Chairman of the bank, inaugurated the ceremony, said a press release.

Monowara Sikder, Director, AKM Shafiqur Rahman, Managing Director, Md Badiul Alam, Additional Managing

Director, SM Jaffar and Syed Mohammad Bariqullah, Deputy Managing Directors, Head of Divisions, executives and officers of the bank attended the function.

 Rupali Bank Limited opened the 531st branch at Muladi Bondor in Barisal recently.

M Farid Uddin, Managing Director of Rupali Bank inaugurated the branch as chief guest, said a press release.

Mayor of Muladi Pourashava Shafiq Uzzaman Rubel, Upazila Vice-Chairman Kazi Mainul Ahsan Sabuj, Deputy General Manager Abul Kalam Azad attended the function.

 Dhaka Bank Limited organised a four-week-long Foundation Training course for its 42nd Batch officers at the bank’s training institute.

Some 29 officials from different branches, divisions, units of head office and DBL Securities took part in the training course started recently, said a press release.

 The board of directors of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) recommended 10 percent stock and 8 percent cash dividend for the shareholders for the year 2013, subject to approval of the 31st annual general meeting of the bank.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the board at Islami Bank Tower in Dhaka on Saturday, said a press release.

Prof. Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher, Chairman of the bank, presided over the meeting.

Vice Chairman Engr. Mustafa Anwar, representative of the Public Institution for Social Security, Kuwait,

Executive Committee Chairman Engr. Eskander Ali Khan, representative of Al-Rajhi Co. for Ind. and Trade,

KSA, Directors Md Abul Hossain, representative of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, Dr. Abdulhameed

Fouad Al-Khateeb, Representative of Arabsas Travel and Tourist Agency, KSA, Dr. Areef Suleman,

Representative of Islamic Development Bank, Mohammad Abdullah Al-Jalahma, Representative of Kuwait

Awqaf Public Foundation, Salahuddin Ahmed, Representative of Kuwait Finance House, Md. Abdus Salam, FCA,

FCS, Humayun Bokhteyar, ACPA, FCA, Professor NRM Borhan Uddin, Ph.D, Prof Dr. AKM Sadrul Islam, Barrister

Mohammad Belayet Hossain and Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Managing Director attended the meeting.

The meeting approved the profit and loss account of the bank for the year 2013 and balance sheet as on 31 December 2013.

Dhaka : BRAC Bank has organized a leadership training for top executives of banks and CEOs of business organizations, reports in press release.

 
Senior bankers and CEOs of different companies took part in the management training titled ‘Transformational Leadership: Tapping into Your Personal DNA

Internationally renowned leadership and innovation trainer Dr. Prasad Kaipa conducted the three-day training at BRAC CDM at Rajendrapur in Gazipur. Mr. Syed Mahbubur Rahman, Managing Director & CEO, BRAC Bank, inaugurated the training participated by 32 top executives.

 
The training is aimed at capacity building of business leaders of Bangladesh by igniting genius within helping them for innovative and strategic decisions. This is the first time in banking industry that a leadership training was organized bringing in international trainer from abroad. It also helps in saving foreign currency for international training for top executives.

As economy grows, Bangladesh requires more business leaders who have expertise on global competition and modern management skills practiced worldwide. In view of this, BRAC Bank will organize such leadership and management training with renowned global resource persons not only for its top executives but also for other banks and industry leaders.

BRAC Bank is one of country’s fastest growing banks. With 157 branches, more than 350 ATMs, 400 SME Unit Offices and over 8,000 human resources, BRAC Bank operation now cuts across all segments and services in financial industry.

With more than 1.2 Million Customers, The bank has already proved to be the largest SME Financier in just 12 years of its operation in Bangladesh and continues to broaden its horizon into Retail, Corporate, SME, Probashi and other

arenas of banking. In 2013 BRAC Bank has received the prestigious ‘The Asian Banker Best Managed Bank in Bangladesh’. In the year: 2010, BRAC Bank has been recognized as Asia’s most Sustainable Bank in Emerging Markets by the Financial Times and IFC. The Bank is the country’s first founder member of Global Alliance

for Banking on Values (GABV) – a network of the world’ leading sustainable banks.