Mashrur Arefin has recently been appointed as the additional managing director of the City Bank, it said in a statement yesterday.

Previously, he was serving the bank as its deputy managing director and chief operating officer, according to the statement.

Arefin is also the chief communication officer of the bank and a director of the bank's subsidiary remittance company in Malaysia, the City Bank said.

He started his career as a management trainee with the erstwhile ANZ Grindlays Bank in 1995 and joined the City Bank in 2007 as head of retail banking. Arefin also served Standard Chartered Bank, Qatar, American Express Bank and Citibank Bangladesh and Eastern Bank.