Brac Bank gets award as a top sustainable bank

Brac Bank has been awarded as one of the top sustainable banks in the country by the Bangladesh Bank in its "Sustainability Rating of 2022".

The bank achieved this recognition for the third consecutive year, said a press release.

Tareq Refat Ullah Khan, deputy managing director and head of corporate banking at the bank, received the award from Abdur Rouf Talukder, governor of the central bank, at the latter's headquarters in Motijheel, Dhaka on Tuesday.

"This recognition will inspire us to expand our sustainability initiatives further. Our business model, centred around governance, transparency, ethics, and compliance, has paved the way for our remarkable achievements in green financing, sustainable CMSME and agriculture financing, and socially responsible endeavours," said Khan.

Among others, Nurun Nahar, deputy governor of the BB, Md Khurshid Alam, executive director (grade-1), Chowdhury Liakat Ali, director of sustainable finance department, and Ekram Kabir, head of communications at Brac Bank, were present.