New director of Al-Arafah Bank

Khalid Rahim has been elected as Independent Director of the Board of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd and Chairman of the Board Audit Committee. He was elected unanimously in the 260th meeting of the Board of Directors held recently. Khalid Rahim is a Fellow member (FCA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and a member of ICAB (Bangladesh). Currently he is Senior Consultant of Rahman Rahman Huq, Chartered Accountants, KPMG Bangladesh. Khalid Rahim was based in London, UK, for the majority of his professional career to date and was previously Managing Director at Barclays de Zoete Wedd Limited ("BZW", now Barclays Capital), the investment banking arm of Barclays Bank, one of the largest UK based banking groups. He was at BZW for 11 years,according to a statement.