M Wahidul Haque has recently been re-elected the chairman and Salim Ahmed the vice-chairman of AB Bank, said a news release.
Wahidul joined AB Bank board in 2007. He also sits in the board of Amana Bank, the first Islamic Bank in Sri Lanka, Cashlink Bangladesh and AB Investment.
Salim is also the managing director of the Elite Group of Companies and the president of Bangladesh Paint Manufacturing Association.

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka

The number of users of mobile banking in the country has crossed 1.5-crore mark.
At this moment, clients of Mobile Financial Services have reached 1,50,23,604, as 4 lakh new people joined the service in March, a Bangladesh Bank official told the news agency on Wednesday.
According to BB statistics, the clients’ mobile banking transaction in March was 14 per cent more than February.
According to BB officials, remittance, salary, utility bill payment, merchant payment and other banking are being conducted through mobile banking.
The central bank has given permission to 28 banks to offer the mobile banking services and so far 20 banks have introduced the services.
At present, on an average the daily transaction number is around 8 lakh while transaction amount is around Tk 200 crore.

Dhaka : Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited and Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Islami Bank Tower on April 20, 2014. In presence of Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Managing Director of the Bank, the agreement was signed by Mohd. Shamsul Haque, Deputy Managing Director of Isalmi Bank and Md. Ebrahim Bahar, President HAAB on behalf of their respective sides. A.K.M. Abdul Malek Chowdhury, Md. Mahbub-ul-Alam, Rafi Ahmed Begh, Nurul Islam Khalifa, Deputy Managing Directors of the Bank along with high officials and executives of the both organizations were present on the occasion.

The central bank has taken an initiative to provide Rana Plaza volunteers with jobs at various banks and financial institutions.
A database of the volunteers along with their curriculum vitae is being prepared and will be shared with different banks and financial institutions, Bangladesh Bank said in a statement yesterday.
The BB will then take measures to provide jobs to the volunteers, it said.
The central bank has already provided honourary certificates and cash Tk 5,000 to each of the 135 volunteers selected from a list prepared by the armed forces, it said.
The BB also expressed condolence to the families of the dead in the Rana Plaza tragedy. It said BB and other banks deposited Tk 100 crore as grant to the Prime Minister's relief fund for the affected.
From the central bank's CSRF fund, Tk 1 crore was given as grant to the Fire Service and Civil Defence to purchase fire fighting equipment, it said.
Besides, to raise safety in the garment sector, a special financing programme was taken by the BB with the financial assistance of Japan International cooperation Agency.

 Madhumati Bank Limited recently launched a campaign styled ‘Baishakhi Joyeeta’ for promoting women entrepreneurs loan scheme named ‘Madhumati Labonnyo.’

The campaign was launched for April in the bank's six branches and headquarters, said a press release.

Md. Mizanur Rahman, Managing Director and CEO of the Bank presided over the meeting.