Introduction

BRAC Bank Limited, a scheduled commercial Bank, commenced its business operation in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 4 July 2001. The Bank is mainly owned by the largest NGO in Bangladesh – BRAC. The Bank has positioned itself as a new generation Bank with a focus to meet diverse financial needs of a growing and developing economy. The Bank has embarked with an acknowledged policy to promote broad based participation in the Bangladesh economy through the provision of high quality banking service based on latest information technology. The Bank will ensure this by increasing access to economic opportunities for all individuals and businesses in Bangladesh with a special focus on currently underserved enterprises and households across the rural-urban spectrum. They believe that increasing the ability of underserved individuals and enterprises to build their asset base and access market opportunities will increase the economic well being for all Bangladeshis.

BRAC Bank Limited, as a scheduled commercial bank established under the Banking Company Act, 1991 and incorporated as a public company limited by shares on May 20, 1999 under the Companies Act 1994 in Bangladesh. The banks has started its operation on 4th of July 2001 with a vision to be the market leader through providing all kinds of banking services suitable to the dynamic demands of both business and individual in the competitive market.

These guidelines will help us to achieve ‘BRAC’ Bank guest experience standards-

Bold – BSSO will be BOLD on behalf of their guests and colleagues. They will be the first to greet, first to listen, first to make suggestions, first to satisfy even the unexpressed needs and to bid a fond farewell.

Reliable – BSSO will take full ownership in serving their guests to their complete satisfaction.

Appealing – They will ensure that all guest touch points are appealing and inviting.

Consistent – It is also necessary to ensure that guest experience quality is consistent in all aspects across all guest service points all the time.

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The Bank operates under a “double bottom line” agenda where profit and social responsibility go hand in hand as it strives towards a poverty-free, enlightened Bangladesh. A fully operational Commercial Bank, BRAC Bank focuses on pursuing unexplored market niches in the Small and Medium Enterprise Business, which until now has remained largely untapped within the country. The management of the Bank believes that this sector of the economy can contribute the most to the rapid generation of employment in Bangladesh.

Corporate Information

Inauguration of banking operation July 4, 2004First SME unit office January 1, 2002Signing with Shore Cap as investor December 29, 2003Signing with IFC as investor May 8, 2004First ATM installed April 3, 2005Preferential share issued January 31, 2006Signing with infosys and 3i infotech changing bank’s IT base August 1, 200624×7 phone banking opening September 9, 2006Listing with CSE January 24, 2007Listing with DSE January 28, 2007Commencement of share trading in DSE & CSE January 31, 2007Credit Card launching February 6, 2007Introduced Probasi Banking April 14, 2007Launching of Travel Rated Service (TRS) November 01, 2007Launching of Omnibus with 12 member banks November 20, 2007Source: Annual Report of BRAC Bank Limited

Corporate Vision

The vision of BRAC Bank is to be a unique organization in Bangladesh. It will be a knowledge-based organization where the BRAC Bank professionals will learn continuously from their customers and colleagues worldwide to add value. They will work as a team, stretch themselves, innovate and break barriers to serve customers and create customer loyalty through a value chain of responsive and professional service delivery.

Continuous improvement, problem solution, excellence in service, business prudence, efficiency and adding value will be the operative words of the organization. BRAC Bank will serve its customers with respect and will work very hard to instill a strong customer service culture throughout the bank. It will treat its employees with dignity and will build a company of highly qualified professionals who have integrity and believe in the Bank’s vision and who are

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committed to its success. BRAC Bank will be a socially responsible institution that will not lend to businesses that have a detrimental impact on the environment and people.

Their corporate vision is to build a profitable and socially responsible financial institution focused on Markets and Business with growth potential, thereby assisting BRAC and stakeholders build a “just, enlightened, healthy, democratic and poverty free Bangladesh 8.

Corporate Mission

Corporate mission of BRAC bank is as follows,

Sustained growth in ‘small & Medium Enterprise’ sector Continuous low cost deposit growth with controlled growth in Retained Assets

Corporate Assets to be funded through self-liability mobilization

Growth in Assets through Syndications and investment in faster growing sectors

Continuous endeavor to increase fee based income

Keep Debt Charges at 2% to maintain a steady profitable growth

Achieve efficient synergies between the bank’s Branches, SME Unit Offices and BRAC field offices for delivery of Remittance and Bank’s other products

Manage various lines of business in a fully controlled environment with no compromise on service quality

Keep a diverse, far flung team fully motivated and driven towards materializing the bank’s vision into reality.

Corporate Values

Corporate mission of BRAC bank is as follows,

Value the fact that BRAC Bank are a member of the BRAC family Creating an honest, open and enabling environment

Have a strong customer focus and build relationships based on integrity, superior service and mutual benefit

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Strive for profit & sound growth

Work as a team to serve the best interest of the owners

Relentless in pursuit of business innovation and improvement

Value and respect people and make decisions based on merit

Base recognition and reward on performance

Responsible, trustworthy and law-abiding in all that BRAC Bank does do

Goal

BRAC Bank will be the absolute market leader in the number of loans given to small and medium sized enterprises through out Bangladesh. It will be a world-class organization in terms of service quality and establishing relationships that help its customers to develop and grow successfully. It will be the Bank of choice both for its employees and its customers, the model bank in this part of the world.

BRAC Bank believes that the pursuit of profit and development goals are mutually reinforcing and thus it will increase the ability of under-served individuals and enterprises to build their asset base and will enable them to access market opportunities. Thus this endeavor will increase the economic well being for all Bangladeshis and at the same time will contribute towards the profitability of the bank. Its long term strategy is to go where the market is.

Objectives of the Bank

The objective of BRAC Bank Limited is specific and targeted to its vision and to position itself in the mindset of the people as a bank with difference. The objective of BRAC Bank Limited is as follows:

Building a strong customer focus and relationship based on integrity, superior service. To creating an honest, open and enabling environment

To value and respect people and make decisions based on merit

To strive for profit & sound growth

To value the fact that they are the members of the BRAC family – committed to the creation of employment opportunities across Bangladesh.

To work as a team to serve the best interest of the owners

To relentless in pursuit of business innovation and improvement

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To base recognition and reward on performance

To responsible, trustworthy and law-abiding in all that they do

To mobilize the savings and channeling it out as loan or advance as the company approve

To establish, maintain, carry on, transact and undertake all kinds of investment and financial business including underwriting, managing and distributing the issue of stocks, debentures, and other securities

To finance the international trade both in import and export

To develop the standard of living of the limited income group by providing Consumer Credit

To finance the industry, trade and commerce in both the conventional way and by offering customer friendly credit service

To encourage the new entrepreneurs for investment and thus to develop the country’s industry sector and contribute to the economic development

Slogan

The slogan of BRAC Bank is “Astha Obichol”. These two words are Bengali words that denote enormous trust on the organization.

Logo

The logo of BRAC Bank is very indicative in conformance with the goal of the organization. This logo has a square shape which means solid and strong. The golden color indicated the “Sonar Bangla”, the rising line denotes the growth of BRAC Bank, and blue is the beautiful sky where the sun is shining brightly.

Bank’s Culture

BRAC Bank has adopted trust as a corporate value which is the acronym for team work, respect for all people, unquestionable integrity, excellence in everything BRAC Bank of SME do, Sense of urgency in getting things done and total commitment.

All employees are expected to conduct themselves in accordance with the rules, regulation and norms of the bank.

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Nature of the Business

BRAC Bank Ltd. put forward all banking needs for its customers which comprises deposit banking, investment, export and import financing, inland and international remittance facilities, online banking services, etc.

Membership

Bangladesh Association of Banks The Institute of Bankers, Bangladesh

International Chamber of Commerce

Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry

American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Employers’ Association

CRAB Ratings

Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh (CRAB) Limited has retained ‘AA2’ (Pronounced Double A Two) rating in Long Term and ‘ST-2’ rating in the Short Term of BRAC Bank Limited in view of the performance of the Bank.

Commercial Banks rated ‘AA2’ rated in the long term belong to ‘Extremely Strong Capacity & Very High Quality cohort. Banks rated ‘AA2’ have very strong capacity to meet their financial commitments. ‘AA2’ is judged to be of high quality and is subject to very low credit risk.

Commercial Banks rated ‘ST–2’ in the short term are considered to have strong capacity for timely repayment. Commercial Banks rated in this category are characterized with commendable position in terms of liquidity, internal fund generation, and access to alternative sources of funds.

Shareholding Position

Sl.No Name No. of Shares

Amount (Taka)

% of Share

1. BRAC 3,808,680 380,868,000 31.742. Mr. Fazle Hasan Abed 120 12,000 0.001

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3. Mr. Syed Humayun Kabir 120 12,000 0.0014. Mr. A. S. Mahmud 120 12,000 0.0015. Mr. Faruq A. Chowdhury 120 12,000 0.0016. Mr. Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed 120 12,000 0.0017. Mr. Md. Aminul Alam 120 12,000 0.0018. Shore Cap International Ltd. 1,050,840 105,084,000 8.759. International Finance Corporation 1,139,760 113,976,000 9.5010. Mutual Fund 289,980 28,998,000 2.4211. Non-resident Bangladeshi 56,885 5,688,500 0.4712. Institutions & General Public 5,653,135 565,313,500 47.11

Grand Total 12,000,000 1,200,000,000 100.00

Different Departments of BRAC Bank Ltd

1. Human Resources Department2. Financial Administration Department

3. Asset Operations Department

4. Credit Division

5. SME Division

6. Internal Control & Compliance Department

7. Marketing & Product Development

8. Impaired Asset Management

9. Remittance Operation Department

10. Treasury Front

11. Treasury Back

12. General Infrastructure Service

13. Information Technology Department

14. Customer Service Delivery

15. Cards Division

16. Call Center

17. Cash Management

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18. Secured Remittance department

19. Women Entrepreneur Cell

20. Payment Service

Monetary & Financial ResourcesLike any other financial intermediaries, BRAC Bank Limited is no exception in performing its core function

Mobilization of fundThe main sources of fund for the Bank are:1. Deposit, and2. Borrowing

1. DepositDeposit is the mainstay of the Bank's sources of funds. Following usual practices, it collects deposit through:

Current Deposit Savings Deposit Term Deposit

2. BorrowingApart from deposit, BRAC Bank Limited received funds from:

Bangladesh Bank Asian Development Bank (ADB) KFW (kreditanstalt fur Wieder-aufbau Credit Institution for Reconstruction), a German

development bank. All of these funding sources are for relatively longer period. Receiving the credit lines from ADB and KfW has been a recognizing of the Bank's highly satisfactory performance.

Function:

The Bank Offers:a. Term loans to industries especially to small-scale enterprises.

b. Full-fledged commercial banking service including collection of deposit, short-term trade finance, working capital finance in processing and manufacturing units and financing and facilitating international trade.

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c. Technical support to Small Scale Industries (SSls) in order to enable them to run their enterprises successfully.

d. Micro credit to the urban poor through linkage with Non- Government Organizations (NGOs) with a view to facilitating their access to the formal financial market for the mobilization of resources.

In order to perform the above tasks, BASIC Bank works closely with its clients, the regulatory authorities, the shareholders (GOB), banks and other financial institutions.

Credit Policy of BBL

In order to minimize credit risk, BBL has formulated a comprehensive credit policy according to Bangladesh Bank Core Risk Management guidelines. Credit policy of the Bank provided for the separation of the credit approval function from business, marketing and loan administration function. Credit policy of BBL recommended through credit assessment and risk grading of all clients at the time of approval and portfolio review. Credit policy also provides the guidelines of required information for credit assessment, marketing strategy, approval process, loan monitoring, early alert process, credit recovery, NPL account monitoring, NPL provisioning and write off policy, etc. The board of directors reviews the credit policy of the bank annually.

Credit Risk Management Credit risk is the risk to an institution’s earnings and capital when an obligator or customer fails to meet the terms of any contract or otherwise fails to perform as agreed. It is one of the major risks faced by the bank.

Considering the key elements of Credit risk, the bank has segregated duties of the officers /executives involved in credit related activities. Separate division for Corporate, SME and Retail has been formed which are entrusted with the duties of maintaining effective relationship with the customer, marketing of credit products, exploring new business opportunities etc. For transparency in the operations during the entire credit period i. Credit Approval Committee, ii. Loan Administration Department, iii. Recovery Unit and iv. Impaired Asset Management has been set up. In addition to the above Sales Teams of the above-mentioned business units book the customers; the Credit Division does through assessment before approving the credit facility. The risk assessment included borrower risk analysis, financial analysis, industry analysis, and historical performance of the customer. Loan Administration Department ensures compliance with all legal formalities, completion of all documentation security of the proposed credit facility and finally disburses the amount. The Sales team reports to the DMD through their line; the Credit division reports to Managing Director, while the Loan Administration reports to the Chief Operating Officer. The above arrangement has not only ensured segregation of duties and accountability but also helps minimize the risk of compromise with quality of the

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credit portfolio.

During the year 2010, credit risk management has taken few initiatives to achieve better quality portfolio,

To support SME credit, CRM has started to establish Regional Credit Risk Management centers national wide to maintaining quality, through which the bank can cover 60% of the business in terms of verification, assessment and approval of SME loans.

A new wing called “Special Asset Management (SAM) and Credit Inspection- Wholesale Banking and Medium Enterprise” has been included in the fleet of credit risk management.

To enrich the collection and monitoring, CRM has introduced software called Collection and Recovery Management Application (CARMA).

A new SME collection team under CRM has been launched to look after all SME portfolios of Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan area.

Business Divisions of BRAC Bank Ltd

It has four major business divisions:

1. Corporate Banking Division2. Retail Banking Division

3. Small & Medium Enterprise Division

4. Foreign Trade and Treasury Division

Divisions and Services of BRAC Bank Limited

1. Corporate Banking Division

Being a major business unit of the bank, corporate banking division has been playing a significant role to achieve the overall objective of the bank. Since the starting, the division is continuously striving to provide more customer focused products for its valued clients. In this process, the division has segmented itself into various units which cater the associated customer segment. The year 2010 will be marked as a milestone for the corporate banking division as it has finance several large projects in this year. Corporate banking helps its customers to fulfill their objectives by carefully listening and analyzing their ideas, providing necessary expertise and composite products. The business unit operates through the following five major wings:

Structured Finance

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Local Corporate Unit

Medium Enterprise Unit

Cash Management and Corporate Liabilities

Last year corporate banking enjoyed outstanding growth of 67% in advances while cah management registered 11% growth in deposits due to primary focus on mobilizing CASA( current and savings account) and operating accounts as opposed to term deposits.

Corporate Banking Services

Corporate Loan Products

Overdraft

Term Loan

Lease Finance

Loan against Trust Receipt (LATR)

Work Order Finance

Medium Enterprise

Trade Finance

Letter of Credit (LC)/ Letter of Guarantee (LG)

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2. Retail Banking Division

Retail Banking Unit ha further strengthened its position as a major channel of business by stretching its horizon with its unique offer of personal banking across the country. This unit takes foremost funding responsibility of the bank and is committed to offer multifarious services to entire customer base of the bank through branches, alternative delivery channels, premier banking services, and literally taking retail banking products to doorsteps through direct sales force.

A phenomenal growth in terms of new customers was registered by retail team and graphical comparison of three years is given below:

Retail Banking ServicesThe retail, corporate, and foreign division of BRAC Bank Ltd. Offers different types of services to its values customers which are discussed below:

Depository Services:

BRAC Bank offers many types of deposit products to its customers which are as follows:

Fixed Deposit:Opening Requirements

A Current Account or Savings Account

General Features A term deposit with a guaranteed monthly return on investment Competitive interest rates Early encashment flexibility Secured Loan and/or Secured Overdraft eligibility

Interest First Fixed Deposit

Here depositors don’t have to wait till maturity to receive interest on fixed Deposit. BRAC Bank Interest First Fixed Deposit lets the depositor draw the interest instantly at the time of deposit. This is a deposit scheme where the client receives interest in advance.

Features

Instant interest on fixed Deposit Interest reinvestment opportunity

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Attractive rate of return

Loan facility against the IFFD

Abiram Account

BRAC Bank ‘Abiram’ Account is a special type of Fixed Deposit scheme, which offers the flexibility & comfort of having a guaranteed monthly return on investment.

Features

Monthly interest on deposit Attractive rate of return

95% loan against deposit

EZee Account

In EZee Account BRAC Bank offers a non-cheque interest bearing account for small savers who are in frequent need of transaction. Depositors get an ATM card to operate account round the clock.

Features

24 hour access to ATMs and POS Interest on daily balance

No minimum balance

No ledger fees

DPSBRAC Bank’s Deposit Premium Scheme (DPS) is a savings plan that adds value to hard earned money.Features

Monthly installments can be as low as Tk. 500 or any multiples of it Choose any day as installment date

Receive a Savings a/c with a personalized cheque book

On-line banking facilities

Monthly Installment Maturity amount after completion of all regular

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Amount (BDT.) installments payment*4 Years 7 Years 11 Years 14 Years

500.00 28,667.00 58,650.00 116,603.00 179,550.001000.00 57,334.00 117,300.00 233,207.00 359,101.00

Savings Account

A regular savings account offers interests on deposit amount.

Features

Cash withdrawal and deposit of 5 lac and above need clarification No forfeiture rules or hidden costs

No requirement for notices to be given before making a withdrawal

Use the network of ATMs for easy cash withdrawal

Get mini balance statements from the ATM whenever needed

Interest rate of 5.5% on average monthly balance

Short-term Deposit

This is a deposit scheme to give returns on savings.

Features

Minimum balance required is Tk. 100,000 Interest paid twice a year but calculated monthly if balance is > Tk. 100,000

Secured returns.

Current Account

BRAC Bank’s Current Account is a normal checking account, gives the option to deposit and withdraw money for day-to-day needs.

Features

ATM card for easy cash withdrawal Withdraw money from all ATMS

Deposit cheques at any of the branches and get the fund immediately

Use online banking facility for free

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Easy access to other facilities

Salary Account

BRAC Bank Salary Account is a payroll account for Employers and Employees. As an organization, anyone can opt for the Salary Account to enable easy disbursements of salary & benefits.

Eligibility

The organization needs to have a minimum of 10 employees and a payout of Tk. 1 lac per month and an average salary per employee of Tk. 10,000 per month.

Features

Zero balance Non-checking account

ATM debit card

Savings Interest

3. Small & Medium Enterprise Division

The SME program of BRAC is a venture of BRAC Bank. BRAC bank was set up with the growing need for capital mobilization and the need for formal contracts for a wider spectrum of clients of the country. When it came to SME financing, instead of approaching the problem by scaling down its regular operations, a separate program designed specially for SME financing was launched by BRAC Bank in 2002. BRAC Bank’s effort is noted in this regard for its complete focus on the credit needs of the small and medium enterprises. Since the initiation of SME operations by BRAC Bank, it has become the Bank’s largest and most profitable venture. As of December 2004, the SME division accounted for two third of the Bank’s profits. BRAC has served 320000 entrepreneurs with SME loans valued at BDT 144330 millions through its 424 SME unit offices. BDT 37400 million assets disbursement was supplemented by BDT 8970million deposits.

The unique feature of BRAC Bank is that it is the only bank that approaches prospective clients, while other banks wait for them to apply for loans when required. SME units of BRAC Bank are located in all districts of the country. Each unit has two to five Customer Relations Officers

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(CROs). The role of CROs is instrumental in not only selecting and approaching clients, but also in maintaining regular interaction with each client, monitoring the use of the loan and ensuring regular repayment.

4. Foreign Trade and Treasury Division

BRAC Bank’s Foreign Trade and Treasury Division are well equipped with modern telecommunication infrastructure facilities like: SWIFT, Reuters, Bloomberg, Internet, Voice Recorder, etc. Treasury manages the Bank’s liquidity and its associated risk. It also manages foreign exchange transaction related risk exposure in a profitable manner.

BRAC bank received approximately 6% of total inward remittance to Bangladesh in the year 2010.

The bank secured 4th position among all the private commercial banks and 7th among all the banks in Bangladesh in terms of bringing inward remittance with the volume of 557 Million and over 1.5 million transactions.

Accrued 75+1% shares of Saajanan Worldwide Money Transfer Ltd in United Kingdom.

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Financial Review

During the financial year 2010, the banking industry faced far greater challenges. BRAC bank has been well ahead of majority of the bank. It has remarkable performance in every aspect of banking activities such as creating firm deposits, advance and profit growth.

Year Earningper share

Net AssetValue PerShare

Net ProfitAfter Tax(mn)

PriceEarningRatio

Dividend

2010 68.17 349.37 1825.02 15.07 10.00, 20%B2009 64.37 381.62 1325.55 13.88 30%B2008 61.46 343.28 973.45 17.52 30%B

2007 54.95 256.55 618.34 29.33 10%B, 1R:52006 63.31 216.72 334.30 8.40 20%B2005 38.54 156.58 192.68 n/a 2004 23.16 118.04 99.30 n/a 2003 12.09 97.75 30.28 n/a 2002 -15.15 84.25 -37.86 n/a

Financial Performance

BRAC bank had passed another successful year despite the unreceptive market condition. The bank had operating profit of BDT 4969 million which is 34% more than previous year.

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Operating Result

BRAC had net profit after tax in 2010 was BDT 1664 million- an increase of 28% over last year. Return on equity was 18.95% and EPS was BDT 60.39.

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Interest income of the bank has increased by 14% in 2010 and is consistent with the increase of loans and advances growth by 31%. Interesting expense has decreased by 5% in 2010, as liabilities were reprised at lower rates and the deposit mix title towards low cost funds.

Net interest income in 2010 was BDT 5094 million which increased by BDT 1661 million from last year.

Non funded income grew this year by 4%. The bank successfully increased its non funded income and reduced its burden ratio over this year.

On the other hand operating expense is increased this year by 29% and this impact by staff salary and allowances increased by 26% to support increasing business volume and services. Number of stuff was increased by 21% over last year whereas the fund under management (FUM) has increased by 24%.

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Total asset of the bank rose to BDT 119150 million in 2010 from BDT 95127 million in 2009. The figure shows a significant increase in total assets documented in loans and advances, investments, fixed assets maintains by bank. Total asset situation of the bank in last few years is given below

Year Total Asset % Change2006 30,012 77.84%2007 46,383 54.55%

2008 72442 56.18%

2009 95127 31.31%

2010 119150 25.25%

Loans and advances increased by BDT 20152 million or 31% in 2010. This is result of continued growth in the lending business and focus on customer profitable growth.

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SME sector the main concentration area of the bank, comprises 50% of total loans and advances. The major portfolio of BRAC bank belongs to the commercial sector.

The banks investments in 2010 was mostly in government securities, which stood at BDT 9668 million as on December 31st 2010 as against BDT 10258 million at the end of the previous year. To comfortably maintain CRR, SLR and use the surplus fund in the cost effective way. Out of total investment 75% concentrated in government securities.

Customer deposits of the bank grew by 17% in 2010. The bank ended the year with total customer deposits of BDT 88158 million compared to 75220 million in the year 2009. Almost 39% of the total deposits are in the form of fixed deposits whereas only 18% and 23% are in the form of current and savings deposits.

Shareholders equity

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The shareholders equity has increased by 15% over the previous year. Paid up capital of the bank has been raised from BDT 2059 million to BDT 2677 million, trough issuance of bonus share out of retained earning from 2009. This year the banks consolidated equity is BDT 10551 million and banks equity is BDT 9412 million.

Shareholding Position

The shareholding position of the bank as on December 31, 2010 is as follows

The shareholding of BRAC has increased to 44% due to release of shares by ShoreCap International Ltd. Shareholding by the institution and general public has also increased up to level of 46%.

Sources and Utilization of Funds

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The main source of fund is customer deposits, which is composed of 74% of total funds. The banks major funds are utilized in loans, advances and investments, comprising around 71% and 11% respectively of total funds available to the bank.

ROA and ROE

Return on assets (ROA) this year stood at 1.55%, recording a slight from 2009 (1.56%). Return on equity (ROE) stood at 18.95%, against 19.19% in the year 2009.

Cost to Income Ratio

In the year 2010, Cost to Income Ratio has decreased from 48.82% to 47.92% due to a greater income growth than that of the cost.

Maintaining Capital Adequacy

Capital Adequacy ratio is the measure of the financial strength and sustainability of the bank. CAR determines the capacity in terms of meeting the time liabilities and other risk such as credit risk, market risk etc. banks capital is the cushion for the potential future loses that protects the banks deposits and other lenders. In this regard the Bangladesh Bank uses CAR as the mechanism to protect depositors and confidence of the banking system.

The bank maintained adequate capital of 12.07% compared to the current regulatory requirement of 10.00%. In 2010, the bank core capital and total capital base were7.43% and 12.07% respectively

Capital Adequacy Ratio and Total Capital in last five years:

Capital composition

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Capital-Core* 1967 2572 4819 6074 7392

Capital-Supplementary*

529 1220 1298 2216 4619

Total Capital 2496 3729 6117 8290 12011

Capital Adequacy 13.53 12.28 12.76 12.45 12.07

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Ratio

* Capital –Core: includes paid up capital, share premium account, statutory reserve and retained earnings.

* Capital –Supplementary: includes general provisions (on unclassified loans), preference shares, and exchange equalization fund.

Economic Value Addition (EVA)

Economic Value Addition is the measure to calculate the economic value added by the enterprise to the shareholders. In computing economic value addition, economic profit and contribution to the government exchequer is considered.

Market Value Added (MVA)

Market Value Added is the difference between the current market value of a company and the capital contributed by the investors. Higher MVA is better for the organization. It indicates that the company created substantial welfare for the shareholders. The negative MVA means the value of the management action and investments are less than the value of capital contributed to the company by the capital market.

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Economic Profit

Economic profit is a residual measurement which subtracts the cost of capital from the net operating profit after tax generated in the business. The bank internal performance measures include economic profit, a calculation which compares the return on the financial capital invested in the bank by its immediate sponsors. The bank prices its cost of capital internally and the difference between that cost and post cost profit attribute to the ordinary shareholders represents the amount of economic profit generated. Economic profit is used by the management as one of the measures to decide where to allocate resources so that it can be more productive.

In EVA terms, the bank created BDT 1605 million in 2010, with a growth of 12%.

Geographical Location-wise Segment Information

The bank initiated to review “Geographical Location-wise Segment Reporting”. Reported business segments within the geographical territory of Bangladesh are shown bellow,

Dhaka Division Sylhet Division

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Rajshahi Division

Chittagong Division

Khulna Division

Barishal Division

Rangpur Division

During the year the bank made net operating profit of BDT 4969million. The segment distribution of net operating profit is shown in following graph,

Loans and advance position of the bank was increased from BDT 64151 million (2009) to BDR 84303 million (2010). The segment position of loans and advances 2010 is shown bellow:

Retirement Benefit to the Employees

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Provident Fund Provident fund benefits are given to the staff of the bank in accordance with the registered Provident fund rules. The commissioner of Income Tax, Large Tax Payers Unit, Dhaka has approved the Provident Fund as a recognized provident fund within the meaning of section 2(52) read with the provisions of part - B of the First Schedule of Income Tax Ordinance 1984. The recognition took effect from 1st January 2003. The fund is operated by a Board of Trustees consisting of 11 (eleven) members of the bank. All confirmed employees of the bank are contributing 10% of their basic salary as subscription to the fund. The bank also contributes equal amount of the employees' contribution to the fund. Interest earned from the investments is credited to the members' account on half yearly basis. Members are eligible to get both the contribution after 03 years continuous service from the date of their membership.

Gratuity Gratuity fund benefits are given to the staff of the bank in accordance with the approved Gratuity fund rules. The fund is operated by a Board of Trustees consisting of 6 (six) members of the bank. Employees are entitled to gratuity benefit after completion of minimum five years of service in the Company. The gratuity is calculated on the basis of last basic pay and is payable at the rate of one month's basic pay for every completed year of service. We have applied for recognition of the fund and the approval procedure is under process.

Revenue Recognition

Interest Income In terms of provision of Bangladesh Accounting Standard (BAS -18) on revenue and disclosures in the financial statements of the Bank, the interest receivable is recognized on accrual basis. Interest in loans and advances ceases to be taken into income when such advances are classified, kept in interest suspense account. Interest on classified advances is accounted for on a receipt basis.

Fees & Commission Income Fees & commission income arises on services provided by the Bank recognized on a cash basis. Commission charged to customers on letters of credit and letter of guarantee are credited to income at the time of effecting the transactions.

Dividend income on Shares Dividend income from shares is recognized when that right to receive the payment is established.

Interest Paid and other expenses In terms of provision of the Bangladesh Accounting Standard (BAS -1) Presentation of Financial Statements, the interest paid and other expenses are recognized on accrual basis.

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SWOT Analysis

Strengths

BRAC bank has already gained a positive image in the mind of the customers. And its strong corporate image helped it to gain the trust to the depositors.

BRAC Bank has probably the best customer care service among the domestic competitors operating in Bangladesh.

It has a very good combination of shareholders who are very affluent and has significant importance in the society.

BRAC Bank has an efficient management team who are heartily working for the achievement of the ultimate objective of this bank.

It has an efficient Human Resource who are efficient who are well trained and motivated thus they can manage their assigned activities and responsibility.

From the technological perspective BRAC Bank is one of the leading institutions to adopt new innovations quicker than others.

BRAC Bank has already established its branches in many places all over the country.

It has a friendly work environment where the employees can give their full effort with motivation which eventually results in an .efficient team effort.

The management system is decentralized and BRAC Bank intends to reduce the bureaucracy from its system.

BRAC Bank can maintain a favorable even high profit margin.

BRAC Bank is financially very sound organization.

Weaknesses

Although SME loan is a very significant castor of BRAC Bank but people are less notified about the fact and they are not much familiar with all the SME packages that this bank offers.

They do not focus the retail banking and corporate banking sector as like as SME sector thus its retail and corporate banking is getting less emphasis.

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Although the ATM posts of BRAC Bank is increasing day by day but still some of its competitors are having much more ATM booths which somehow hamper its image.

Although its profitability is getting higher but its operating cost per employee is increasing.

Opportunities

The market for commercial banks is widening day by day. Because people’s trust over the private banks is getting stronger.

There are many technological developments happening around the world and if they can adopt those technologies before its competitors it can enjoy the benefit over the time.

Still there is a good prospect and widening market for SME loan which will provide BRAC Bank a new arena.

Threats

The upcoming political situation if turns into a unstable economic condition that can be considered as a major threat as a hinder for normal operation.

Competitive rivalry among the local banks is increasing day by day. Thus this threat for this bank to survive in its current position.

Threat of new entrants is also a considerable factor. As an emerging sector new companies may come up with their distinctive competencies and can make obstacles for BRAC Bank to grow.

Problems

There are insufficient service stations for withdrawing and depositing money in the branch offices and for that reason often long queues are made thus increase the waiting time for the customers and eventually results in customer dissatisfaction.

All the money available in the bank are not always well utilized sometimes they remain as idle money.

A serious problem is occurring for the last few months that the ATM booths often becomes unusable mostly because of problems in ATM machines

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Often this is found that there is no money in the ATM machines but customers are waiting for withdrawing money.

They signify on their internet banking system but this has lots of problems and thus this is not convenient for the customers to use.

Employees in BRAC Bank get lower salary for which they sometimes lose the motivation.

Except few branch offices most of the branch offices have insufficient space.

Although the number of BRAC Bank booth is increasing but that is not adequate in comparison of its major competitors.

The information given about the Bank’s features and many other things in the website is backdated.

Recommendations

In the branches of BBL there should be more number of service stations for withdrawing and depositing money so that it reduces the customer waiting time.

There should be more efficient capital management and investment analysts appointed so that idle money does not remain in the bank.

They should frequently keep their conscious observation to monitor that the ATM machines in all the booths are usable and adequate cash is there.

They should increase their ATM booths substantially in order to compete with its competitors.

They should update the information in the website in a regular basis.

BBL should increase the space in the branch offices as their client size is increasing day by day and also introduce new branches in various places of the country for expansion.

The managers should be sent to different training programs on a regular basis to improve their knowledge base which would help them to improve their efficiency.

Employees of BRAC Bank should be provided a better salary package in order to keep them otherwise they may switch to another job for higher salary.

Management should be more decentralized to provide faster services to the clients.

In order to remain as the market leading company they should emphasize much on retain the existing customer base and also should try to attract new customers.

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In the loan approval procedure the evaluation of creditworthiness of the clients should be more authoritarian in order to reduce the chance of defaulter.

SME loan of BRAC Bank has already gained popularity to the business people but there is an objection about the interest rate where the bank should be more aware and also try to decrease the interest rate. Because of higher rate of interest defaulter rate may increase which would ultimately affect the profitability of the bank.

Conclusion

BRAC Bank Limited has gained a positive image in the mind of the people in Bangladesh and this is reflected in the growth and performance of the bank in the last few years. BRAC Bank’s steady rise to the top as the fastest growing bank in the country intends to lead the bank towards the achievement of its ultimate objectives and goals in compliance with its vision..

This bank has a strong financial base and huge assets to meet up its liabilities which makes this organization financially sound and solvent. The management of this bank is outfitted with expert and efficient bankers and managers who delicately serve the bank. They work for the betterment of the bank as a team. According to my study the performance of this bank is noticeable. In this study to evaluate the financial performance of this bank various financial parameters were considered and BRAC Bank was found as a fast growing bank and simultaneously performing well in almost all the areas.

To keep with this pace of growth and improvement they now should more vigilant on what their customers want and should be more vigilant while giving loans to the clients in order to reduce the defaulter rate.

References

Websites

1. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTFINSEC/Resources/loc_chap2.pdf

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking

3. http://www.photius.com/countries/bangladesh/economy

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Banks_in_Bangladesh

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank

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6. http://www.BRACbank.com/php/include_submenu.php?pg=1

7. http://www.termpaperslab.com/term-papers/117773.html

8. http://www.BRACbank.com/php/include_gen.php?pg=7

9. http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/1998/199832/199832pap.pdf

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