Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN) - Al Arafah Islami Bank Ltd. is focusing its five products in the Banking Fair Bangladesh-2015 to attract clients.
Al Arafah Islami Bank vice president Khalilur Rahman told BBN on Tuesday that his bank would try to attract the common people to open their fresh account with the bank for the products.
The five products are Student Account, Farmers Account, Freedom Fighter Account, Garment Workers Account, and Street Child Account, according to him.
The senior banker said that the farmers, freedom fighters and street child would be allowed to open their accounts with the bank by depositing only BDT 10.
“The garments worker will be able to open their accounts to keep deposit only BDT 100 with our bank”, he explained.
The private banker said that his bank also focused the agent banking service for the clients during the Five-day long banking fair,
He said that his bank had recently introduced agent banking to bring the unbanked people in the banking network in line with the ongoing financial inclusion programmes.
Al Arafah Islami Bank Ltd will open the branch of the agent banking where there no bank branch is available.
“The bank has already opened 10 branches of the agent banking. Bangladesh Bank, however, gave permission my bank to open 50 branches of agent banking by 2015,” he noted.
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