BRAC Bank holds agent banking conference

BRAC Bank has organised a daylong agent banking conference of its Khulna region on November 26.

The conference was organised to set out strategy and roadmap as the bank moves forward with rapid network expansion drive of the alternate banking channel across the country.

Valued agent partners, agent field officer, agent relationship officers and officials of branch network and SME banking exchanged views, discussed about industry scenario, field level experience, challenges and way to overcome these, the bank said in a statement on Thursday.

Attendees vowed to continue the concerted efforts to scale up the agent banking network to bring the unbanked people under financial umbrella and contribute to financial inclusion and national development.

Head of Alternate Banking Channels Nazmur Rahim, Head of Agent Banking Nazmul Hasan, Branch Manager, Khulna Al Amin Sheikh, Branch Operations Manager Sheikh Monirul Islam, Regional Coordinator - Khulna Division of agent banking Mahbubul Alam, Team Leader of Khulna Region Nur Hossain and senior officials attended the conference.

With a humble beginning in October, 2018, BRAC Bank went on to become the fastest growing agent banking network with 630 agent banking outlets covering 63 districts. BRAC Bank aims to emerge as the leader in agent banking space to serve the unbanked people at the remote areas of the country, it said.