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Tuesday | August 11, 2026 | Dhaka

Business & Economy

Business & Economy

Bank Asia awards certificates to 60th foundation course participants: Bank Asia Limited has awarded certificates to its officers, who participated, in the second phase of 60th Foundation Training Course recently. A total of 31 officers from different levels of the bank participated in the course. M Esamul Arephin, Head of BAITD (CC), handed over the certificates among the participants at a program held at the Bank Asia Institute for Training and Development (BAITD), Lalmatia, Dhaka.

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Md. Akiz Uddin, DMD of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC and Rana Dasgupta, CEO of Apollo Multispeciality Hospital, Kolkata, exchange document after signing a MoU at the bank’s head office in the capital on Tuesday. Under the deal, employees and their family members as well as cardholders of the bank will get special discount in treatment and on various medical tests. Mohammed Monirul Moula, Managing Director and CEO, Md. Altaf Hossain, AMD, Md. Maksudur Rahman, SEVP of the bank, were present.

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Hassan O. Rashid, Managing Director and CEO of Prime Bank Limited and Nazeem Noordali, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, exchange documents after signing a Syndicated Murabaha Financing Facility of $40 million financing agreement at the bank’s head office in the capital recently. The financing facility will support the growing trade business of the bank for SME and Corporate segments. Through this strategic partnership, ITFC will be supporting the key sectors of the economy by availing vital foreign currency to support the global trade of Bangladeshi importers and exporters. Senior representatives from both institutions, were present.

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Mercantile Bank donates agri machinery to farmers: Mercantile Bank Ltd donated agricultural machinery, including power tillers, among farmers at Senbag Upazila Agriculture Office in Noakhali on Tuesday. Morshed Alam, chairman of the bank, handed over the machinery to the farmers, said a press release. A total of 10 power tillers have been distributed to the farmers of nine union parishads and one municipality of Senbag upazila from the bank’s corporate social responsibility fund. Md Junaed Alam, upazila agriculture officer of Senbag, Iqbal Hossain Patwari, officer-in-charge of Senbag police station, and Mohammad Zahir Alam, head of Senbag branch of the bank, along with local businessmen and farmers were present.