Grameen Bank
microfinance · Dhaka
· verified (verified 2026-05-25)
Profile
- Chief executive
- Sarder Akhter Hamed
- Founded
- 1983
- Regulator
- other
- MRA-licensed
- no
- Active members
- 10880000
- Loan portfolio
- ৳177,839,950,000
- Staff
- 24485
- Coverage
- nationwide; present in 81,678 villages (about 94% of villages)
Sarder Akhter Hamed serves as Managing Director.
Recent activity
- 2025-04-08 leadership_change Sarder Akhter Hamed joined as the new Managing Director of Grameen Bank, having previously served as COO of Sajida Foundation. ↗↗
Provenance & notes
Grameen Bank is a statutory microcredit bank created by the Grameen Bank Ordinance 1983 (originating from Muhammad Yunus's 1976 Jobra pilot); it is not an MRA-licensed NGO-MFI but a government-chartered specialised bank, hence mra_licensed=false and regulator='other'. Operational figures (members 10.88M, 2,568 branches, 24,485 staff, outstanding loans BDT 177,839.95 million) are as of April 2026 per the official site introduction page; outstanding loans, not annual expenditure, used for loan_portfolio_bdt.