BRAC Bank

DSE: BRACBANK

Banking · BRAC

BRAC Bank is a private commercial bank affiliated with the BRAC group, known for its focus on small and medium enterprise (SME) finance alongside retail and corporate banking. It is among the higher-capitalised banks on the Dhaka bourse.

Business: SME lending, retail and corporate banking, deposits, trade finance and treasury, and digital financial services including its mobile financial services affiliate.

Market data

Market capitalisation

152,485 mn BDT

Paid-up capital

22,896 mn BDT

Outstanding shares

2,289,565,092

Last price

67.3 BDT

Listed

2007

Market category

A

Source: Dhaka Stock Exchange, fetched 2026-05

Policy exposure

Concentration on SME credit links the bank's loan book closely to the health of informal and small-business borrowers, who are sensitive to interest-rate and inflation cycles. SME credit conditions shape employment and informal-sector resilience, so supervisory and rate policy at this bank has outsized real-economy effects. Source: analysis

Affiliation with the BRAC development group raises the broader governance question of NGO/development-entity ownership of commercial banks and related-party boundaries. Bank-group and related-party governance is a central Bangladesh Bank supervisory theme given sector-wide insider-lending risks. Source: analysis

A large market capitalization makes the bank a heavyweight in the banking-sector index, so its valuation swings move broader market sentiment. Index-heavy financials transmit banking-sector stress into capital-market volatility, relevant to financial-stability monitoring. Source: DSE