NRB Bank holds 'Annual Risk Conference'

NRB Bank PLC recently arranged its "Annual Risk Conference 2024" at the bank's head office in the capital's Gulshan.

It is a part of the bank's augmented commitment to build a robust culture of business, governance and risk management in alignment with regulatory expectations.

This year the theme of the conference was "Don'ts in Risk Management".

Tarek Reaz Khan, managing director of the bank, attended the conference as the chief guest, the bank said in a press release.

"We aim to instil a risk-focused attitude and atmosphere in our bank, where every individual will work together to identify, manage and strive to escalate risk at the earliest instances by adapting proper risk mitigation measures," Reaz Khan said.

Md Ali Akbar Faraji, deputy managing director and chief risk officer of the bank, presided over the meeting.

The Annual Risk Conference-2024 was aimed to disseminate the importance of early and effective risk assessment, management and mitigation across the bank to have sustainable and resilient growth of the bank.

Shakir Amin Chowdhury and Md Shaheen Howlader, deputy managing directors, and Anwar Uddin, deputy managing director and CAMLCO, spoke on the occasion.

The bank's core risk management divisional heads shared their insights on potential high-risk issues in implementing core risk management, probable mitigation and vigilance on risks.

All the branches of the bank outside Dhaka joined the event virtually.

Mohammed Shaukat Ali, head of the risk management division and DCRO of the bank, along with the senior management team, divisional heads, branch heads and operation managers of different branches, were also present.