BRAC Bank organizes Agent Banking conference in Sylhet Region

BRAC Bank has organized the Agent Banking Conference of its Sylhet Region.
The conference was organized to formulate a roadmap as the bank moves forward with the rapid network expansion drive of the alternate banking channel across the country.

The valued Agent Partners, Agent Field Officers, Agent Relationship Officers and officials of Branch Network and SME Banking exchanged views. They discussed industry scenarios, field-level experience, challenges and ways to overcome them at the daylong conference held at BRAC Learning Center in Sreemangal on September 25, 2022.

At the ceremony, they vowed to continue the concerted efforts to scale up the Agent Banking Network to bring the unbanked people under a financial umbrella and contribute to financial inclusion and national development.

Head of Alternate Banking Channels Nazmur Rahim, Head of Agent Banking Md. Nazmul Hasan, Regional Head, Sylhet, Distribution Network Rezaur Rahman, Regional Head, Sylhet, SME Banking Anwarul Islam and the officials of the Agent Banking Department attended the conference. The Agent Partners and bank officials were awarded for their outstanding performance for business growth.

With a humble beginning in October 2018, BRAC Bank has become the fastest-growing Agent Banking network with 800 outlets covering all 64 districts of the country. BRAC Bank aims to emerge as the leader in the Agent Banking space to serve the unbanked people in the countrys remote areas.

About BRAC Bank Limited, BRAC Bank Limited traded as ‘BRACBANK’ on Dhaka Stock Exchange has been one of the country’s fastest-growing banks since its inception in 2001 with a particular focus on the SME segment. With 187 branches, 373 ATMs, 456 SME Unit Offices, 800 Agent Banking Outlets and a diverse workforce of more than 8,000 people BRAC Bank also serves customers across the Corporate and Retail segments.

The bank has generated particularly strong financial performance over the past five years and now leads the industry in most of the financial metrics. With more than 1.3 million customers the bank has already proved to be the largest collateral-free SME financier in just 20 years of its operation in Bangladesh and continues to serve as a benchmark for governance, transparency and compliance in the banking sector.