BM Desk:

Social Islami Bank arranged Agent Banking Conference-2024 recently at a hotel in Dhaka, reads a press release on Monday.

Abul Bashar, Executive Director of Bangladesh Bank was present as the chief guest and Zafar Alam, Managing Director and CEO of Social Islami Bank presided over the program.

Forkan Ullah, Abdul Hannan Khan and Habibur Rahman, Deputy Managing Directors, Mashiur Rahman, Head of Agent Banking Division along with various divisional heads of the Bank were also present in the program. 

The owners of 370 Agent Outlets across the country attended the conference.

Abul Bashar, the chief guest mentioned that Bangladesh Bank has formulated Agent Banking Guidelines in 2017 for the proper management of agent banking activities. He said that Social Islami Bank is efficiently managing the agent banking activities and there is no unexpected incident that has happened in the Bank so far. 

Zafar Alam, Managing Director and CEO of the Bank said that there is no difference between the sub-branch and agent outlet. Customers can now avail investment benefits from agent outlets. Agents are doing very well in collecting remittances.