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United Commercial Bank

DSE: UCB

Banking · UCB / Bashundhara-linked

United Commercial Bank (UCB) is one of Bangladesh's older private commercial banks, offering corporate, retail, and SME banking nationwide. It trades on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in the 'Z' category.

Business: Corporate and commercial lending, retail and SME banking, trade finance, treasury operations, card and digital banking services, and subsidiary operations.

Market data

Market capitalisation

13,643 mn BDT

Paid-up capital

15,504 mn BDT

Outstanding shares

1,550,375,898

Last price

8.8 BDT

Listed

1986

Market category

Z

Source: Dhaka Stock Exchange, fetched 2026-05

Policy exposure

DSE 'Z' market category placement, which signals dividend, compliance, or going-concern flags under exchange rules. A 'Z' classification for a large, systemically relevant bank raises investor-protection and disclosure-quality concerns for the regulator. Source: Dhaka Stock Exchange, fetched 2026-05

Bank-business group nexus: ownership ties linking the bank to a large industrial conglomerate. Concentrated, group-linked ownership heightens related-party lending and governance-independence risks that Bangladesh Bank governance reforms target. Source: analysis

Governance and board-control disputes that have affected several large family-linked Bangladeshi banks. Board instability undermines credit discipline and is a recurring trigger for central-bank intervention in the sector. Source: analysis