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Hello Curb Safe Charmer,

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Rebranding

On 5th July 2008, The City Bank Limited changed its brand name to City Bank. The bank also introduced a new logo and a brand philosophy line. The logo has a dynamic shape, which represents dynamism and modernity of the 21st century. The Red and Silver shape in the logo has versatile meaning, it resembles a chessboard which represents wisdom & vision; a flying kite, highlighting the skies of many possibilities. The brand philosophy line "Making Sense of Money" emphasizing on importance of money which is almost synonymous to life. City Bank with its 37 years of experience wants to help customers to make perfect sense of money.

Banking

City Bank being a 37-year-old bank has transformed itself by adopting global best practices by doing away with age-old traditional decentralized banking practices and culture. Previously it used to follow traditional and orthodox banking methods but the bank has undergone massive restructuring in 2007 and has implemented centralized business model serving many customers through 4 distinct business divisions namely Corporate & Investment Banking, Retail Banking (includes Cards), SME Banking and Treasury and Market Risks. The focus of the “transformation” project was also on improving the overall quality of assets; re-launching the brand anew; leveraging the technology potential; improving the quality of product offerings and placing much higher benchmarks for customer service. Several innovative initiatives were taken to turn the bank into a modern financial supermarket using the latest technologies.

City Banks’ vision includes a systematic line of services that offer a wide array of products and services that differentiate and excite all customer segments. The bank provides an environment where people excel and leadership quality is harbored to create future leaders. The vision streams continuously to challenge processes and platforms to enhance effectiveness and efficiency. Promoting innovation and automation with a view to guaranteeing and enhancing excellence in service is stitched in its web of services. To go around a 360 degree in service, the bank commits to ensure respect for community, good governance and compliance in all of their initiatives.

The newly crafted “vision” of the bank is: “The Financial Supermarket with a Winning Culture Offering Enjoyable Experiences”. City Bank brand is already recognized as the “most reputed transforming institution in the country” and is poised to become the “Most Reputed Financial Institution Brand”. Governing Board The current senior management leaders of the bank consist of mostly people from multinational banks with superior management skills and knowledge in their respective specialized areas. The bank is headed by Managing Director & CEO, Mashrur Arefin, heading the management committee. The bank Board of Directors is led by current chairman, Aziz Al Kaiser.

Board of Directors The board of directors as of 1st March 2020:  Mr. Aziz Al Kaiser, Chairman  Mr. Hossain Khaled, Vice Chairman  Mr. Hossain Mehmood, Director  Mr. Rafiqul Islam Khan, Director  Mr. Rajibul Huq Chowdhury, Director  Mrs. Tabassum Kaiser, Director  Mrs. Syeda Shaireen Aziz, Director  Mrs. Savera H. Mahmood, Director  Mr. Farooq Sobhan, Independent Director  Mr. Mashrur Arefin, Managing Director & CEO

Services City Bank is a real time online bank having 132 online branches a full-fledged Islamic Banking branch under the brand name ‘City Manarah’ and 11 SME/agriculture branches supported by 364 ATMs and 64 cash deposit machines spread across the country. In 2009, City Bank in collaboration with American Express, has launched the prestigious American Express Credit Card in Bangladesh and is the sole caretaker of the brand overlooking all local operations. City Bank is also the first bank in Bangladesh to have issued Dual Currency Credit Card, holding a principal membership of VISA and MasterCard franchises.

Retail Banking “Add a little city to your life”, a motto with which City Bank operates its Retail Banking section, has established itself as a key player in the local banking sector, aiming to the majority individual clientele of the country, the cities and towns with their operations. Retail Banking services includes Deposit, Loan, Debit Card, Credit Card, The CityMaxx Card, NRB, NFB, City Global, and Accelerated Banking in its product list. It caters to a range to deposit products starting from New Born Account to Senior Savers Account.

Corporate Banking Throughout its run, City Bank have established itself as a key competitor in Bangladeshi wholesale banking industry and offers innovative, customized solutions and services. Acting as a ‘one-stop gateway’ for corporate and financial institutions, The City Bank operates a country wide network to facilitate the corporate clientele with growing trade and investment flows and supply chain financing needs across the nation. The key corporate services include Working Capital Finance, Trade Finance, Short/Mid-Term Finance, Project Finance, Islamic Finance, Structured Finance, Cash Management, Investment Banking, Schedule of Charges, and Interest Rate on Lending in their product list.

SME Banking City Bank initiated the SME banking service to create a place in the potential sector of SME banking with packages designed for diverse segment of the SME clientele and products include, City Muldhan, City Sheba, City Shulov, City Munafa, City Nokshi, City Agro and SME Centre. Islamic Banking The Muslim majority populace of Bangladesh has incorporated Islamic banking services in its economy to facilitate the Shariah based banking services; The City Bank cashed in to this sector with the City Manarah - Islamic banking services that allow its customers to access Islamic banking facilities. City Manarah products include, Manarah Current Account, Manarah Savings Account, Manarah Term Deposit, Manarah Monthly Deposit, Manarah Personal Finance, Manarah Auto Finance, Manarah Hajj Deposit Scheme and Manarah Schedule of Charges operating in 11 branches across Bangladesh.

Treasury City Bank treasury services are designed to emulate international standards and include products like Overnight Deposits, Term Deposits, Foreign Exchange, Local Currency Spot & Forward and Derivatives in its portfolio.

ATM Services City Bank currently has 364 ATMs centered in convenient locations across the country and 550 further ATMs in place in a sharing arrangement with a partner bank. City Bank has also introduced card less cash withdrawal from the ATM by allowing the customer to withdraw cash using Cash by Code.

Debit and Credit Cards City Bank is the first bank in Bangladesh to have issued Dual Currency Credit Card. The bank is a principal member of VISA international and it issues both Local Currency (Taka) & Foreign Currency (US Dollar) card limits in a single plastic. VISA Debit Card is another popular product which the bank is pushing hard in order to ease out the queues at the branch created by its astounding base of some 400,000 retail customers. The launch of VISA Prepaid Card for the travel sector is currently underway.

American Express Cards City Bank has launched American Express Credit Card and American Express Gold Credit card in November 2009. City Bank is the sole licensee of the brand in Bangladesh and is responsible for all operations supporting the issuing of the new credit cards, including billing and accounting, customer service, credit management and charge authorizations, as well as marketing the cards in Bangladesh. Both cards are international cards and accepted by the millions of merchants operating on the American Express global merchant network in over 200 countries and territories including Bangladesh. City Bank also introduced exclusive privileges for the card members under the American Express Selects program in Bangladesh. This will entitle any American Express card members to enjoy fantastic savings on retail and dining at some of the finest establishment in Bangladesh. It also provides incredible privileges all over the globe with more than 13,000 offers at over 10,000 merchants in 75 countries.

Online & Mobile Banking Services

Citytouch Citytouch is a mobile banking application from the house of City Bank. This application allows the registered user to transfer money between City Bank accounts and other bank accounts, including utility and own credit card bill payments including other Bank’s credit card bill payment. It also enables the user to open FD accounts along with placing request for updating personal information without visiting the branch.

City i-Banking An extension of the City Retail services, the i-Banking is an online transaction facility from City Bank. The customer can access the account through internet from anywhere around and also have a hassle free transaction like getting bank statements, checkbook enquiry, viewing account summary and details from a convenient location.

Concerns of City Bank

City Brokerage Limited City Brokerage Limited offers full- fledged international standard brokerage service for retail and institutional Clients and foreign clients. Operating in Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchange Limited, City Brokerage limited gained recognition from home and abroad. The company intends to offer high quality product and service at a competitive rate to all clients. It has proven reputation in serving customers by maintaining strong Compliance practices and extreme ethical standard.

City Bank Capital Resources Limited (CBCRL) City Bank Capital Resources Limited (CBCRL) is a fully owned subsidiary investment bank of City Bank Limited. It provides financial advisory, capital markets and investment management services to corporations, individuals and financial sponsors. It acts as a bridge to investment in Bangladesh globally understanding the opportunities, risks of doing business in Bangladesh and nurturing strategic partnerships with clients both in public and private sectors.

City Bank American Express Airport Lounge

City Bank launched the country's first airport lounge of international standard and quality at Hazrat Shahajalal International Airport, Dhaka in 2010. The lounge named "City Bank American Express Lounge" caters to the City Bank issued American Express® Gold Credit Cardmembers. Following the success of International Lounge, in 2013 City Bank introduced country’s first domestic airport lounge at the same airport. The facilities at both the lounges are complementary and include food and beverage, WiFi connections for internet access, American Express Card service desk and other entertainment options.

Corporate Social Responsibility

The bank is regularly pursuing towards environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development. For City Bank, Corporate Social Responsibility is a management concept whereby the organization participates in social and environmental concerns in interactions with their stakeholders. City Bank CSR is seen as benefiting the business by building reputation, brand value, customer loyalty, employee motivation and retention.

In 2012, City Bank along with Bangladesh Police partnered together to arrange annual cultural and sports program for the people of Korail slum area in Dhaka aiming to build a healthy and positive society inside the slum area in the metropolitan area of Dhaka.

City Bank partnered with Eminence, Bangladesh sponsored series of awareness program against cancer at national level such as Specialized training program for nurses on cancer Provide VIA and mammography for women under a UNFPA project with low cost. A total of 100 eligible women from an identified urban slum were taken to the BSMMU and tested for both cervical cancers screening through VIA and breast cancer screening through physical examination and mammography. The positive cancer patients were followed up and efforts were taken in order to provide them with proper treatment.

With the support of City Bank the poor women in Basatpur village of Jessore are now trained to sew their way out of poverty. The bank funded the project called “livelihood program for women in Jessore” for three years starting from 2011 and the project as already placed the villages in position to market their products. The Bank partnered with MRDI, ManusherJonno Foundation and BachteSekha along with the local community and set up sewing and embroidery training center for 200 women within the span of three years.

City Bank recently joined hands with Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) by donating Tk 25 Lacs to the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare fund created for the victims of fire at Neemtali and building collapse at Begunbari in the city.

City bank sponsored the complete renovation and Development of Baridhara Lakeside Park. The Bank financed this large project while Baridhara Society supervised the work and Spotlight carried out the year-long work that included jet fountain on the lake, building new pathway, sitting spaces, new toilets inside the park, planting new trees, installing sitting platforms by the water and so on.

Simon681 (talk) 05:03, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That text is far too promotional. We just neutrally summarize what reliable secondary sources have said, see WP:NEUTRAL. – Thjarkur (talk) 13:55, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: ShareTrip (September 22)[edit]

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September 2021[edit]

Hello Simon681, you should not need to be reminded each time to declare your paid contributions. You should do it for every article well before you edit that article. Also note that you should still follow the neutral point of view. Adding promotional material to Wikipedia could get you blocked, all its own without the WP:UPE. Regards! Usedtobecool ☎️ 14:37, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]