Eastern Bank wins awards at Mastercard Excellence Awards

Eastern Bank PLC (EBL) recently won four awards in different categories at the Mastercard Excellence Awards 2024.

The lender was honoured with these awards for excellence in Business (Innovation), Credit Business (Domestic), POS Acquiring Business, and Online Acquiring Business categories for 2023-24, the bank said in a press release.

Ali Reza Iftekhar, managing director and CEO of the bank, received the awards from Ahsan H Mansur, governor of the Bangladesh Bank, at a ceremony at the Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden in the capital.

Mastercard introduced the Excellence Awards in 2019 to recognise various organisations for their contribution to the banking, payments and fintech space in Bangladesh.

The sixth edition of the awards was themed "Leading by Resilience".

M Khorshed Anowar, deputy managing director and head of retail and SME banking of the bank, Ahsan Ullah Chowdhury, head of digital financial services, Tasnim Hussain, head of cards, and Faisal M Fathe-Ul Islam, head of m-commerce and e-commerce, were present.

Senior officials from the bank, Mastercard and dignitaries from other organisations were also present.