Syed Faridul Islam
Mr. Syed Faridul Islam has recently joined United Commercial Bank Limited as the Additional Managing Director.
Prior to joining UCB, he was the Deputy Managing Director & Chief Risk Officer of Prime Bank looking after on Credit, Information Security, Credit administration and Risk Management division of the Bank, said a statement.
He played a very pivotal role in restructuring Business model for both SME Banking, Consumer Banking, Branch Network including Trade Services and Cash Management under Central Operations in Prime Bank. He also set up Prime Bank's Retail and SME collection and Special Asset Management model. He firmly contributed in implementation and upgradation of Core Banking, Card Management system and Tier 3 data Center of the Bank.
He was also Head of SME Banking, BRAC Bank and reorganising small segment and centralisation of CRM. He worked for Standard Chartered Bank and successfully launched SME business products there.
He was Head of Medium Business, Standard Chartered Bank, Bangladesh.
Mr. Islam has 35 years of banking experience, covering in Branch Management, Business process reengineering, and IT integration. In his secondment with ANZ Bank, Melbourne, Australia, he played key role in product and parameter analysis. He was member of core implementation team of system integration for ANZ Grindlays Bank, Bangladesh and India. He started his career at Grindlays Bank in 1984.
Mr. Islam has a Bachelor of Commerce degree and he is also certified 'Credit Professional' from OMEGA in UK organised by Standard Chartered Group, London.