Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman officially inaugurated the 1st Day Care Centre for private commercial banks operating in Gulshan area. As per Bangladesh Banks guidance Standard Chartered Bank took the initiative to lead the project and find a day care centre for the staff children of private commercial banks in Gulshan area. Along with the Governor of Bangladesh Bank, Jim McCabe, CEO of Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh, high officials from HSBC, Citi Bank, UCBL, The City Bank, One Bank Limited, Exim Bank, Mutual Trust Bank and Habib Bank were also present at the inauguration ceremony.
During his speech at the inauguration ceremony Dr. Atiur Rahman said, ‘Bangladesh Bank is fully committed to gender-friendly policies and making bank/financial institutions fully compliant with these policies. Bangladesh Bank has itself established a world class day care centre and wants other banks to do the same in their cluster. As a part of this initiative, we are going to launch the first day care centre for commercial banks cluster in Gulshan under the leadership of Standard Chartered Bank. Let me congratulate them all for this humane gender sensitive initiative. Good Luck.’
Jim McCabe, CEO of Standard Chartered Bank thanked the Governor for giving Standard Chartered the opportunity to lead this project and also appreciated the support of all the private commercial banks in Gulshan area during his speech.
