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City Bank will work with World Vision Bangladesh
(WVB) to facilitate access to banking services to
financially disadvantaged people. Mashrur Arefin,
Managing Director and CEO of City Bank, and Suresh
Bartlett, National Director of World Vision Bangladesh
signed the agreement on behalf of their respective
organizations on 24 October 2020. Among others,
Md. Zafrul Hasan, Head of Digital Financial Services
and Kamrul Mehedi, Head of Small Business of City
Bank, Rakesh Katal Chief of Party – Nobo Jatra Project
and Alex Bekunda, Deputy Chief of Party – Nobo Jatra
Project and other senior officials of the two
organizations were also present at the ceremony.

Faruq Mainuddin, Managing Director
and CEO of Trust Bank Limited (TBL)
handed over blankets as part of
corporate social responsibility
activities of the bank to Honorable
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on 28
October 2020. An amount of 50,000
pcs (Fifty Thousand) blankets have
been donated to the Honorable
Prime Minister’s Relief Fund on
behalf of Trust Bank Limited (TBL).

Standard Chartered Bank, in partnership
with bKash, the largest mobile financial
service provider in Bangladesh, and
Valyou, Malaysia’s leading digital
remittance provider, announced on 9
September 2020 the launch of the first
blockchain-based cross-border
remittance service in Bangladesh,
facilitating instant transfers from
Malaysia.

United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) inaugurated
the Islamic Banking window named UCB Taqwa on 12
October 2020 at the Corporate office of the bank.
Saifuzzaman Chowdhury MP, Honorable Minister,
Ministry of Land inaugurated UCB Taqwa as chief
guest. Bazal Ahmed, Vice-Chairman of UCB and
Chairman of Shariah Supervisory Committee;
Anisuzzaman Chowdhury Ronny, Chairman, Executive
Committee of UCB; Bashir Ahmed, Director of UCB;
Mohammed Shawkat Jamil, Managing Director of UCB
& Member of Shariah Supervisory Committee;
Professor Dr. A. F. M. Akbar Hossain, Member of
Shariah Supervisory Committee; Professor Dr. K M
Saiful Islam Khan, Member of Shariah Supervisory
Committee; Dr. Mohammed Nasir Uddin (Azhary),
Member of Shariah Supervisory Committee; Dr.
Mohammad Manjurur Rahman, Member of Shariah
Supervisory Committee along with other senior
executives were present at the inauguration ceremony.

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