JANUARY ISSUE, 2020 | A HALF-YEARLY PUBLICATION INSIDE MD & CEO Talks to Prothom Alo Travelogue Poetry Financial Inclusion for Sustainable Development | JAN-2020 1 EDITORIAL ADVISOR A Year of Exuberance Quazi Osman Ali For Social Islami Bank Limited the year-2019 ended with the sumptuous celebration of 24 Managing Director & CEO years of glory and pride and thus we stepped into the landmark year of silver jubilee. Like the previous years, anniversary celebration created quite a buzz among the employees, clients and well-wishers. Media presence was conspicuous. Visionary and prudent EDITORIAL prescription of the MD & CEO would pave the way to a healthy growth of SIBL. ADVISOR One of the key components of sustainable development is to make available the develop- ment tools every nook and cranny of the country. Aiming at contributing to the sustaina- Kazi Towhidul Alam ble development the nancial services of the Bank are being made available for all even to Additional Managing Director the ultra-poor. Agent banking can play a vital role in this regard. This window has made nancial services accessible to all at a cheaper and easier means. SIBL has 122 Agent Outlets across the country to provide services among the previously unbanked people. EDITORIAL The most optimistic thing is that 150 Cr. deposit has been procured so far signifying that marginal people have been developing saving tendency. This change will surely bring TEAM change to their lot. To promote agent banking, we arranged agent conference. In the conference the agents expressed the challenges and prospects of this kind of banking. Md. Moniruzzaman SVP & Head of Branding Festivity is in the vein of our culture and heritage and so is in SIBL. For the rst time, we & Communications arranged a photography competition with the photographs taken by the employees of Md. Abdur Razzak SIBL, which turned into a festival. The purpose of the competition was to reinvigorate FAVP, Head of MDS employee morale. The rst six photographs found their place in our calendar-2020. This has earned a huge applause from inside and outside of the Bank. Md. Ashaduzzaman Pramanik SEO, Branding & Communications We believe that each citizen has an inalienable right to education and a decent life. The underprivileged youths constitute the part of whole but they are far o a decent life. In order to mainstreaming them into education and job, we joined UCEP Bangladesh to provide skill development training. Under this joint venture 200 underprivileged youths PUBLISHED BY will receive skill development training with job placement opportunities. Branding & Communications Division Looking back we found many things deserving to be celebrated. We have achieved almost DESIGN & PRINTING all the targets which were set at the beginning of the year-2019. Our network of banking has been widened too. In the New Year, we will continue to ensure the best customer experiences. We will oer a handful of products and services to our clients. We hope to take the Bank one step forward capitalizing all the opportunities and challenges the coming year will oer. 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