| December 17,2025 |
Eastern Bank PLC (EBL) has won the Bronze Award in the Private Commercial Bank category at the ICMAB Best Corporate Award 2025, in recognition of its significant contribution to the banking sector and the national economy.
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| December 15,2025 |
EBL has been awarded the Silver Award in the General Banking category at the 12th ICSB National Award for Corporate Governance Excellence.
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| November 22,2025 |
EBL got recognized for leadership in Online Acquiring, POS Acquiring, Cross-Border Credit Business, and Business Innovation, reflecting strong acquiring and portfolio execution excellence across complex payment verticals.
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| November 10,2025 |
EBL has won the "Most Innovative Fintech Product Design of the Year" award for introducing the world's first biometric metal card — an exclusive World Elite card launched in partnership with Mastercard Bangladesh.
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| September 21,2025 |
EBL has been awarded the prestigious GRG Global Customer Exchange Award 2025 in the "Al Empowerment Category." The award recognizes EBL's pioneering efforts in integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance customer experience and drive digital banking innovation in Bangladesh.
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| September 20,2025 |
EBL has once again been recognized as one of Bangladesh’s most trusted and influential brands, earning the prestigious Superbrands status for the third time. This marks EBL’s third Superbrands achievement, having previously received the honor for the periods 2009–2011 and 2018–2020.
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| August 21,2025 |
EBL has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Sustainable Banks of 2024 by Bangladesh Bank
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| August 04,2025 |
EBL got recognition for excellence in Prepaid Cards Business (Principal Client), Cross-Border Business (Overall), Value-Added Services (VAS), and Cobrand Cards, underscoring a diversified and balanced card strategy.
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| July 19,2025 |
Eastern Bank has launched the ‘SkyFlex Visa Prepaid Card’—Bangladesh’s first app-based social currency prepaid card—designed specifically for the digitally savvy youth segment. The new card was brought to market in strategic partnership with The Yours Truly and Visa.
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| July 18,2025 |
Eastern Bank PLC has been recognized as the ‘Best Bank in Bangladesh’ at the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2025, marking the bank’s sixth win of this prestigious international honor.
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| July 07,2025 |
EBL, Mastercard launch 'world’s first' biometric metal credit card in Bangladesh, marking a significant leap forward in Bangladesh's payment technology landscape.
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| June 16,2025 |
Eastern Bank PLC. won most Innovative Digital Bank- Bangladesh 2025 at the International Finance Awards 2025
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| May 13,2025 |
EBL partners with Grameen Digital Healthcare Solutions to support Hajj pilgrims with Digital Healthcare Services. This is a pioneering initiative of its kind in Bangladesh’s banking sector.
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| May 12,2025 |
EBL has entered into a strategic partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to advance its climate risk management capabilities. EBL becomes the first commercial bank in Bangladesh’s banking sector to collaborate with IFC on enhancing climate risk management frameworks.
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| April 24,2025 |
Eastern Bank has been honored for the second consecutive year with the prestigious Digital CX Award for its outstanding Cash Management Platform, presented by The Digital Banker. This recognition underscores EBL’s continued commitment to delivering innovative and customer-centric digital banking solutions.
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| February 27,2025 |
Eastern Bank honors five organizations in five categories for their innovative, effective, and successful initiatives in meeting the climate change-related challenges in Bangladesh at the ‘EBL Climate Change Action Awards 2025.’ The EBL Climate Change Action Awards is an initiative of Eastern Bank in partnership with German, French, and Danish Embassies in Bangladesh.
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| December 23,2024 |
EBL becomes the first local bank to act as a Visa National Net Settlement Service (NNSS) agent
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| December 22,2024 |
To empower and inspire Bangladesh's growing freelancing community, EBL has launched an innovative ‘EBL Freelancer Ambassador Program’. The initiative is expected to promote financial inclusion and to contribute to the nation's economic progress.
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| December 17,2024 |
EBL has been awarded Best Bank in the Private Sector in Bangladesh and Sustainable Bank of the Year at South Asian Business Excellence Awards 2024.
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| December 12,2024 |
Ali Reza Iftekhar, Managing Director and CEO of Eastern Bank PLC., receives ‘C-Suite CEO of the Year Award’ award at the “Bangladesh C-Suite Awards 2024” organised by Bangladesh Brand Forum
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| December 12,2024 |
EBL relaunches Mastercard Platinum Aqua Prepaid Card in vertical look
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| December 07,2024 |
EBL and SOS Children’s Village join hands for youth skill development
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| November 27,2024 |
EBL joins hand with the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) to set up BIDA Daycare Center (BDCC). It is an initiative aimed at enhancing the work-life balance of working mothers of BIDA and the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) and National Skills Development Authority Bangladesh (NSDAB).
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| November 16,2024 |
EBL received four accolades at Mastercard Excellence Awards 2024. The bank was awarded for excellence in Business (Innovation), Credit Business (Domestic), POS Acquiring Business, and Online Acquiring Business categories for 2023-24.
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| November 14,2024 |
EBL has won silver award in the Private Commercial Bank category at the ICMAB Best Corporate Award 2023.
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| November 04,2024 |
EBL and icddr,b partners in healthcare waste management and safe water access
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| October 28,2024 |
EBL introduces Financial Literacy and Entrepreneur Development Training program exclusively designed for women entrepreneurs. Curated by ADB and Bangladesh Bank, the online training program aims at empowering women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. This self-paced training provides practical knowledge, assessments, and certification, helping women borrowers from small enterprises enhance their business success.
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| October 05,2024 |
EBL wins ICSB gold award for the sixth time at the 11th ICSB National Award for Corporate Governance Excellence 2023.
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| October 03,2024 |
EBL has launched EBL Women Payroll Suite- a first of its kind product in Bangladesh exclusively for women professionals.
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| September 01,2024 |
EBL launches Islamic Banking services
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| July 19,2024 |
EBL wins Euromoney Best Bank award in two categories: ‘Best Bank' and 'Best Bank for Corporate Responsibility' at the prestigious Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2024 held in London on July 18, 2024. EBL is the first Bangladeshi bank to receive the coveted award for the fifth time.
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| July 04,2024 |
EBL launches revamped Skybanking app
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| July 03,2024 |
EBL has been recognised as the 'Best Climate Focus Bank' during the 24th National Conference and Green Expo, titled "Policy Frameworks for Enabling Renewable Energy Investment: A Global and Regional Perspective”
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| June 24,2024 |
EBL opens 1st ever ATM services at Dhaka metro rail stations network at Agargaon station.
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| June 11,2024 |
EBL launches off-shore banking deposit program
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| April 28,2024 |
EBL collaborates with Mastercard to launch the first prepaid card for medical tourism
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| March 06,2024 |
EBL launches Korea Business Desk to facilitate bilateral trade
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| February 28,2024 |
EBL gets Euromoney Trade Finance Survey 2024 award. EBL has been ranked No 1 "Market Leader" in Euromoney domestic category in the Euromoney Trade Finance Survey 2024.
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| February 07,2024 |
EBL is first to get Bancassurance License from IDRA for both life and non-life insurance companies
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| January 24,2024 |
Eastern Bank PLC. receives highest taxpayer award
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| January 24,2024 |
EBL and icddr, b partners for sustainable healthcare waste management
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| January 24,2024 |
EBL receives bancassurance business approval from Bangladesh Bank
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| December 21,2023 |
Eastern Bank commercially launches WEAREBL devices
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| November 30,2023 |
EBL has been awarded Bangladesh’s ‘Bank of the Year 2023.’ The accolade was conferred upon EBL by the renowned London-based international financial analysis and intelligence publication, The Banker. EBL becomes the first local bank to receive the coveted award for the third time 2020, 2021 and 2023.
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| November 27,2023 |
EBL has clinched awards at the "Mastercard Excellence Awards 2023" in three categories. The bank won "Excellence in Mastercard Business (Innovation)" for its SkyTrip Credit Card, "Excellence in Mastercard Business (Innovation)" for wearable payment solution, and ‘Excellence in Mastercard Online Acquiring Business.’
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| November 19,2023 |
Most Innovative Partner by the country's leading Travel Assistant Company, ShareTrip.
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| November 09,2023 |
EBL wins e-Commerce Movers Award (eCMA) 2023 for its significant contribution to Bangladeshi e-commerce industry.
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| November 07,2023 |
EBL has won gold award at the ICMAB Best Corporate Award 2022 in the Private Commercial Bank category.
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| October 14,2023 |
EBL has won gold award in general banking category for its outstanding corporate governance practices as well as transparency and accountability in overall management at the 10th ICSB National Award 2022 for Corporate Governance Excellence
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| September 14,2023 |
EBL has won Visa Excellence Awards in four categories at the Visa Leadership Conclave - Towards a Cashless, Smart Bangladesh 2023 for their outstanding achievements in Excellence in E-commerce Acquiring, Excellence in Cybersource-Payment Gateway, Excellence in Co-brand Cards, and Excellence in Cross-Border Payments.
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| September 11,2023 |
EBL in collaboration with Payment Network partners Mastercard and Visa has officially launched the nation's first wearable payment devices branded WEAREBL.
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| September 03,2023 |
Eastern Bank Limited has been renamed as Eastern Bank PLC. (EBL)
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| August 23,2023 |
EBL, renowned for its innovative financial products and services, successfully closed Bangladesh's first local currency interest rate swap deal with Pran Agro Ltd., a leading player in the manufacturing sector.
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| July 25,2023 |
EBL Securities Ltd. has won the Independence Golden Jubilee Award 2022 given by the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC). It won the first prize under the Stock Broker and Stock Dealer category for significant contributions to the development and progress of the country's capital market.
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| July 20,2023 |
EBL wins the International Finance Banking Awards 2023 under the category of ‘Most Innovative Retail Bank in Bangladesh’. The accolade was conferred upon EBL by the renowned London-based International Finance magazine, known for its comprehensive coverage of the global financial sector.
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| June 27,2023 |
EBL adjudged “Bangladesh's Best Domestic Bank 2023” by ASIAMONEY
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| June 25,2023 |
The Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh has assigned its highest credit rating, "AAA", for EBL, which denotes an extremely strong capacity to meet financial commitments.
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| February 08,2023 |
Ali Reza Iftekhar, MD and CEO wins first Kotler CEO of the year award
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| December 17,2022 |
EBL has won gold award in the banking category at the 9th ICSB National Award for Corporate Governance Excellence 2021.
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| December 15,2022 |
Ali Reza Iftekhar, the longest serving Managing Director and CEO of Eastern Bank Limited won 'Best Banking CEO of the Year, Bangladesh 2022' from World Business Outlook.
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| December 01,2022 |
EBL received the Bronze Award in "ICMAB Best Corporate Award 2021" in the private commercial bank category.
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| November 24,2022 |
EBL wins the Mastercard Excellence Award in two categories - Mastercard Prepaid Business and Mastercard Online Acquiring Business.
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| July 18,2022 |
Eastern Bank has won the Best Domestic Bank 2022 Asiamoney Best Bank Awards for Bangladesh for second consecutive years.
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| July 14,2022 |
EBL wins Euromoney Best Bank in Bangladesh Award at the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2022 in London. EBL is the only bank in Bangladesh to win the coveted award for the fourth time from 2016-2018 and in 2022.
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| June 30,2022 |
EBL has been awarded as one of the top ten banks in Sustainability Rating Recognition 2021. Bangladesh Bank has published the rating based on four indicators such as Sustainable Finance, Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR), Green Refinance and Core Banking Sustainability.
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| June 23,2022 |
EBL wins Visa Excellence Award in four different categories at the Visa Leadership Conclave-Digital Payments for Smart Bangladesh 2022. The categories are Excellence in Cross-Border Issuing Business, Excellence in E-commerce Acquiring Business, Excellence in CyberSource Processing, and Excellence in Value Added Service (VAS) Products.
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| January 10,2022 |
EBL is the only bank in Bangladesh to be awarded Fastest Growing Digital Bank of 2021 by International Finance Banking Awards
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| December 01,2021 |
EBL has been awarded the prestigious Bank of the Year 2021 for Bangladesh by The Banker. EBL is the first bank in Bangladesh to win the award for two consecutive years from 2020 - 2021. The award truly demonstrated a level of stability that is testament to the organizational strength.
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| November 27,2021 |
EBL has won the first Bangladesh FinTech award in 2021 in the 'Fintech Innovation of the year-Banks' category for EBLConnect, a solution developed by EBL ICT Division for Corporate customers.
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| March 26,2021 |
Asiamoney has picked up Eastern Bank Limited as Best Domestic Bank in the 2021 Asiamoney Best Awards for Bangladesh. EBL won the award for the first time.
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| January 17,2021 |
EBL has been awarded by International Finance Corporation (IFC) under World Bank Group as the Best Partner for Equipment Trade in South Asia under Global Trade Finance Program.
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| December 02,2020 |
EBL has been awarded the prestigious Bank of the Year 2020 for Bangladesh by The Banker.
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| October 28,2020 |
EBL has been recognized with the 2020 Leading SME Trade Bank award for its outstanding contribution in supporting small- and medium-sized enterprises in Bangladesh by Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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| October 22,2020 |
EBL SKYCARE the exclusive service outlet designed especially for our valuable cardholders. It is a one-stop solution for EBL Cards where visiting customers can instantly avail a new prepaid card.
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| October 15,2020 |
EBL wins awards from Visa in three categories - Excellence in Product Innovation, Excellence in E-commerce Acquiring Business and Excellence in Cross-Border Business for the year 2019-2020 from VISA.
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| September 23,2020 |
EBL introduces first in Bangladesh UnionPay Dual Currency Debit card and UnionPay Dragon Prepaid Card.
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| September 02,2020 |
In collaboration with VISA EBL is the first bank in Bangladesh to launch Bangla QR Payment System, powered by mVISA on SKYBANKING app.
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| May 31,2020 |
EBL Insta Account - first Bangladeshi bank to introduce e-KYC based bank account.
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| March 30,2020 |
2020 Euromoney-Asiamoney Trade Finance Survey
- Eastern Bank Limited ranked number 1 in Market Leaders (Asian Banks) in Bangladesh
- Eastern Bank Limited ranked number 1 in Best Services (Asian Banks) in Bangladesh
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| December 16,2019 |
EBL won the Most Innovative Retail Bank – Bangladesh 2019 by the International Finance Magazine.
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| December 15,2019 |
EBL has won the prestigious ‘ICMAB Best Corporate Award 2018’ securing the first position in the Private Commercial Bank Category.
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| September 29,2019 |
EBL opened its first representative office in Guangzhou, China
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| September 08,2019 |
EBL won the Best Employer Brand Award 2019 at the 14th Employer Branding Awards at Pan Pacific Sonargaon, Dhaka. The award was given by the globally renowned Employer Branding Institute.
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| June 27,2019 |
EBL won the 'Best Investment Bank Bangladesh' at the FinanceAsia Country Awards 2019, held in Hong Kong.
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| March 25,2019 |
EBL received Asiamoney Best Corporate and Investment Bank in Bangladesh Award for 2018. EBL has been awarded for three consecutive awards.
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| December 08,2018 |
EBL won 2nd prize of ICMAB's 'Best Corporate Award 2017' under Traditional Private Commercial Bank Category.
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| November 10,2018 |
EBL won the gold award at the 'ICSB National Award for Corporate Governance Excellence 2017' in the 'Banking Companies' category by the Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Bangladesh (ICSB). This is EBL's third gold award in last five years.
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| September 01,2018 |
EBL has been recognized as a 'Superbrand' of the country for the year 2018-2020 by the Superbrands Bangladesh. This is the second time EBL has been adjudged with this award.
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| July 18,2018 |
EBL became Euromoney Best Bank in Bangladesh by repeating the performance in 2018 for the third consecutive year.
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| June 24,2018 |
EBL has moved into its permanent home at 100 Gulshan Avenue, Dhaka. This is a state-of-the-art intelligent building and also an architectural landmark of the city.
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| May 24,2018 |
EBL received Asian Banker Transaction Awards-2018 in two categories: Best Cash Management Bank in Bangladesh and Best Trade Finance Bank in Bangladesh.
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| March 22,2018 |
EBL adjudged the 'Best Retail Bank in Bangladesh' award for 2018 consecutively for the sixth time by The Asian Banker.
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| December 28,2017 |
EBL launched country's first Artificial Intelligence (AI) - based banking chatbot titled 'EBL DIA' (EBL Digital Interactive Agent) - where anyone can interact with through chatting with an AI-based Chat Robot on social media platform.
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| September 26,2017 |
EBL received Asiamoney Best Corporate and Investment Bank in Bangladesh Award for 2017.
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| July 13,2017 |
EBL repeated the performance in 2017 by winning Euromoney Best Bank in Bangladesh award for the second consecutive year.
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| March 17,2017 |
EBL won the prestigious Best Retail Bank in Bangladesh award for 2017 consecutively for fifth times by The Asian Banker.
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| December 24,2016 |
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) won the second prize at the 3rd ICSB National Award for Corporate Governance Excellence 2015.
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| November 28,2016 |
EBL wins 3rd prize best financial reporting at The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh or ICAB awards
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| October 01,2016 |
EBL achieved the global standard in payment-card security certification 'Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) from world's top cyber security leader NCC Group based in UK
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| June 29,2016 |
EBL was adjudged as the Best Bank in Bangladesh by FinanceAsia.
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| May 21,2016 |
EBL is the first bank in Bangladesh to be awarded Ba3 ratings by Moody's
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| November 10,2015 |
EBL won the 'ICSB National Award for Corporate Governance Excellence-2014' in the Banking Companies category
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| April 19,2015 |
EBL wins the prestigious Best Retail Bank for Bangladesh2015 award.
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| December 30,2014 |
The 14th ICAB National Awards for the Best Presented Annual Reports 2013
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| December 04,2014 |
ICSB National Award for Corporate Governance Excellence 2013 in the banking company category
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| November 11,2014 |
Best Structured SME Bank of the Year 2014
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| July 31,2014 |
Global Brand Excellence Award by The World Brand Congress
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| April 29,2014 |
EBL wins the ICMAB Best Corporate Award 2013
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| April 03,2014 |
Best Retail Bank in Bangladesh 2014 awarded by the Asian Banker
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| February 20,2014 |
EBL has been awarded the Best Partner for Working Capital Systemic Solutions in 2013 by IFC.
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| March 22,2013 |
EBL wins the Best Retail Bank in Bangladesh 2013 awarded by the Asian Banker.
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| October 05,2012 |
IFC awarded EBL the Best GTFP Issuing Bank in South Asia in 2012
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| October 01,2012 |
Annual Report 2011 Awarded 2nd prize as 'Best Presented Annual Report Awards' by ICAB.
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| July 25,2012 |
EBL CEO awarded 'CEO of The Year' by World HR Congress & World Brand Congress Hosted by Asian Confederation of Businesses.
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| July 19,2012 |
Crowned Asia's Best Employer Brand Awards 2012 in the category of 'Best HR Strategy in line with business' by World HR Congress & Employer Branding Institute.
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| November 28,2011 |
Incorporated with HK authority 'EBL Finance (HK) Limited', the fully owned first foreign subsidiary of EBL.
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| November 25,2011 |
Conferred Global awards for Brand Excellence in the category of 'Best Banking and Financial Services' by The Global Brand Congress.
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| June 05,2011 |
Adjudged the Best Financial Institution 2010 at the DHL Daily Star Bangladesh Business Awards.
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| May 11,2011 |
Centralized operations of EBL got Quality Management Systems Certificate as per ISO 9001: 2008
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| January 09,2011 |
Incorporated 'EBL Asset Management Limited', a fully owned subsidiary of the Bank to do asset management i.e. managing mutual funds.
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| April 04,2010 |
Implemented 'Universal Banking System (UBS)', world's one of the renowned core banking solutions as a first bank in Bangladesh.
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| March 01,2010 |
Acquired 60% shares of a brokerage house 'LRK Securities Limited' renamed afterwards as 'EBL Securities Limited' and was acquired fully in 2012.
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| December 30,2009 |
Established 'EBL Investments Limited' a fully owned subsidiary to do merchant banking (MB) operations (MB License received in January 2013).
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| November 01,2009 |
EBL was awarded 3rd position for Annual Report 2008 in the 'Best Published Accounts' by ICAB and conferred a 'Certificate of Merit' award for 'Best Presented Accounts and Corporate Governance Disclosures Awards 2008' by SAFA.
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| April 30,2009 |
Awarded 'Superbrand' by Superbrands Inc. for the period 2009-2011.
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| April 26,2009 |
Launched Priority Banking for premium customer segment.
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| April 19,2009 |
Registration of EBL 1st Mutual Fund with Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| February 13,2009 |
Commencement of Investment Banking Operations.
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| May 25,2008 |
First 'Right Issue' declared @ 2:1 at par.
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| July 01,2007 |
Launched Own Managed Cards Software and Production System.
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| November 09,2006 |
Partnered with ADB under Trade Finance Facilitation Program (TFFP) to receive guarantee and revolving credit facility.
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| June 06,2006 |
Launched SME Banking Division.
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| March 05,2006 |
Centralization of liability product processing functions at Service Delivery.
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| November 30,2005 |
Partnered with IFC under Global Trade Finance Program (GTFP) for better handling complex trade transactions.
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| June 27,2005 |
Authorized share capital increased to BDT 3.3 billion.
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| September 11,2004 |
Listed with Chittagong Stock Exchange Ltd.
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| May 19,2004 |
Commenced of operations of Off shore Banking Unit, Bangladesh.
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| January 25,2004 |
Obtained permission from Bangladesh Bank for Offshore Banking Unit, Bangladesh.
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| July 17,2003 |
Launched online banking services across all the branches.
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| January 19,2002 |
Centralization of Trade Services.
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| November 12,1998 |
First dividend declared for income year 1997.
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| March 20,1993 |
Listed with Dhaka Stock Exchange Ltd.
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| August 16,1992 |
Commenced banking operations.
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| August 08,1992 |
Incorporated.
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