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MTB organizes BAMLCO Conference 2017

On February 11, 2017, Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) organized the Branch Anti- Money Laundering Compliance Officers’ (BAMLCO) Conference 2017 on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), at BRAC-CDM, Khagan, Savar, Dhaka. Debaprosad Debnath, General Manager of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), attended the program as the Chief Guest. A B M Zahurul Huda, Deputy General Manager, Md. Khairul Anam, Joint Director of BFIU, MTB Additional Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer (COO), Md. Hashem Chowdhury, Deputy Managing Directors, Syed Rafiqul Haq and Goutam Prosad Das, Chief Anti Money Laundering Compliance Officer, Swapan Kumar Biswas, BAMLCOs of all MTB Branches, officials of MTB Securities Ltd. and MTB Capital Ltd., Heads of different departments/divisions along with other senior officials of MTB also attended the conference. The objective of the conference, in accordance with the bank’s theme for 2017, Protect & Surge, was to refresh the knowledge of BAMLCOs and make them aware of the new guidelines, circulars of the Central Bank and MTB’s strategy to face the challenges ahead in terms of AML & CFT.

 

The Chief Guest, Debaprosad Debnath, conducted a session on the emerging issues and subsequent regulatory actions of Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorist Financing (TF). He also emphasized the importance of staying updated on ML & TF issues for combating those effectively and preventing the negative impacts of both on the society. He urged everyone present at the conference to contribute individually as well as collectively to the initiatives against ML & TF executed on the National and Global platform.

 

At the end of the conference, all MTBians who attended the conference, vowed to fight against Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorist Financing (TF) by following proper procedures as outlined by the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU).

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