Bank Asia declared 15% dividend (10% bonus share and 5%
cash dividend) for the year 2014 at the 16th Annual General Meeting of the Bank
held on Tuesday, 31 March, 2015 at Lady’s Club in the capital city Dhaka.
A Rouf Chowdhury, Chairman of the Bank presided over the
meeting. With 10% stock dividend, the paid-up capital of the Bank would
increase to Tk. 8.39 billion.
Vice Chairmen Mohd Safwan Choudhury and AM Nurul Islam,
Chairman of Executive Committee Rumee A Hossain, Chairman of Audit Committee Mohammed
Lakiotullah, Directors M Irfan Syeed, Shah Md Nurul Alam, Ms Sohana Rouf
Chowdhury, Naheed Akhter Sinha, Mashiur Rahman, Md Nazrul Huda and Md
Shahajahan Bhuiyan, and President & Managing Director Md Mehmood Husain and
Additional Managing Director Aminul Islam were present.
There
was a large turn-out of the shareholders in the annual general meeting. They
expressed satisfaction at the overall performance of the Bank and approved the
accounts for the year 2014. The meeting started in the morning with chorus of
national anthem rendered by artists of Bank Asia and all the shareholders stood
and lend voice to the national anthem. (source: press release)