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There are 10 Islami Shariah-based PCBs in Bangladesh and they execute banking activities according to Islami Shariah-based principles i.e. Profit-Loss Sharing (PLS) mode. [1] Exim Bank PLC; Al-Arafah Islami Bank PLC; First Security Islami Bank PLC; Global Islami Bank PLC; ICB Islamic Bank PLC; Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC; Shahjalal Islami Bank PLC
The Bank was founded as NRB Global Bank on 25 July 2013 targeting not resident Bangladeshis. [6] Bangladesh Bank provided licenses to nine banks including NRB Global Bank in 2013 on the condition that the bank will eventually list on the stock market. [7] On 14 August 2013, Md Abdul Quddus was appointed managing director of NRB Global Bank. [8]
Islami Bank PLC. (Bengali: ইসলামী ব্যাংক পিএলসি.), abbreviated as IBBPLC, more commonly known as Islami Bank, is an Islamic banking company based in Bangladesh. It became incorporated on 13 March 1983 as a public limited company under the Companies Act 1913, and started operation on 30 March, the same year. [8]
Migrants Bangladeshis were demanding such type of bank since 1990s. However, Md. Bayazid Sarker an economist and Central Bank official of Bangladesh first develop a theoretical structure of the bank and officially floated the idea in his research paper titled "Alternative Resource of World Bank for External Financing in Bangladesh: A Foreign Remittance Approach" on 15 December 2007 in Dhaka. [5]
It has 133 branches. [1] The bank is a licensee to issue Visa and MasterCard Debit and Credit Cards and it is the sole licensee of American Express Cards in Bangladesh. [4] The bank is a real-time online bank, having its branches, SME/Agri branches spread across Bangladesh along with a full-fledged Islami Banking branch.
The Bank saw profits decline in 2018 along with other listed banks on the Dhaka Stock Exchange. [8] In September 2021, First Security Islami Bank Limited issued shares to raise its paid up capital. [9] It declared a 10 per cent dividend that year. [10]
Social Islami Bank Limited is a Sharia compliant bank in Bangladesh which started operations on 22 November 1995. [5] SIBL was founded by M. A. Mannan, Dr. Hamid Al Gabid, Former Secretary General of O.I.C., Dr. Abdullah Omar Nasseef, and Ahmed M. Salah Jamjoom, Former Commerce Minister, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.