Zafar Alam, Managing Director & CEO of Social Islami Bank held a meeting with Dr. Mohammad Javed Patwary, BPM (Bar), Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia recently.
The meeting discussed enhancing remittance flows through legal channels, also highlighted the issues like improving standards of living of expatriates.
The Social Islami Bank shown its interest to open a branch in the Kingdom to uphold the interests of expatriates, and to collaborate with Saudi banks for trade-finance facilitation.
The MD & CEO of the Bank was also accompanied by Mohammad Habibur Rahman, Deputy Managing Director, and Towhid Hossain, SEVP & Head of IRMD-1, during the visit.
Zafar Alam, MD & CEO, reaffirmed his commitment to supporting Bangladeshi expatriates and strengthening economic ties between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia. He also said that we are ready to explore avenues for cooperation and collaboration to benefit the expatriate communities.
The Bank always puts especial emphasis on remittance senders, as a result the bank has tailored products for them including especial discounts in SIBL Foundation Hospital & transportation facility from Dhaka airport to anywhere inside Dhaka city and so on.