Shimanto Bank, Bangladesh’s new age scheduled commercial bank, has received an issuing and acquiring license from Visa, the leading global payments network, which will allow it to issue Visa-branded payment products and acquire merchant transactions. The contract signing event of the partnership, held at Shimanto Bank premises, was attended by high officials of Shimanto Bank including Muklesur Rahman, MD & CEO; Rafiqul Islam, SEVP and COO; Anwar Faruq Talukder, EVP and Head of Retail & SME; Alim Hossain Khan, EVP and Head of GSSD; Mohammad Azizul Haque, SVP, Operation Division; and Md. Mizanur Rahman, VP and Acting Head of Card & ADC. Soumya Basu, Business Development Manager, Visa, represented Visa at the event, said a statement.