EBL hosts women entrepreneurship development Summit 2025

Business Report :

Eastern Bank organised the ‘Women Entrepreneurship Development Summit 2025’ at its head office in the capital on Wednesday, bringing together women chambers, business associations, and ecosystem partners from across the country. The summit aimed to create a strategic roadmap for identifying and empowering authentic, finance-ready women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.
Themed “Building Bridges for Finance-Ready Women-Led Enterprises,” the open-floor discussion focused on fostering collaborative partnerships between EBL Women Banking and stakeholders to ensure inclusive financial access and institutional readiness for women-led businesses.
Rubina Husain, President, Bangladesh Federation of Women Entrepreneurs (BFWE) and also the President of SEED Foundation, moderated the session. In her remarks, she stated, “This initiative by EBL is a timely and much-needed platform that unites banks, chambers, and women entrepreneurs under one roof. We are aligning efforts to formalize and scale women-led enterprises across Bangladesh.”
At the event, EBL officially launched Phase II of its flagship Women Entrepreneurship Development Program ‘Adbita’-a comprehensive, three-month blended (online and offline) capacity-building initiative. The program is designed to support women entrepreneurs in enhancing formal business documentation, financial literacy, e-commerce capabilities, product quality, and market expansion both locally and globally, says a press release.