The Business Development Conference 2026 of Al-Arafah Islami Bank PLC. was held on January 24, 2026 Saturday at the Ballroom of Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka. Chairman of the Bank Khwaja Shahriar inaugurated the conference as Chief Guest. The meeting was presided by Managing Director and CEO of the Bank Mohd. Rafat Ullah Khan.

Directors of the Bank Md. Shahin Ul Islam, Md. Abdul Wadud, Dr. Mohammed Abu Eusuf and Mohammad Asraful Hassan FCA were present in the meeting.

Among others Deputy Managing Directors of the Bank  Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, Md. Fazlur Rahman Chowdhury, Md. Asaduzzaman Bhuiyan, Md. Aminul Islam Bhuiyan, Mohammed Hossain, S.M. Abu Jafar, Sayed Abul Hashem FCA, FCMA, Senior Executives of Head Office and managers of 226 branches of the Bank participated the conference.

As the chief guest speech, Chairman of the bank Khwaja Shahriar said that opportunities have been created to improve the quality of investments, strengthen risk management and enhance provisioning capacity, which are directly linked to the bank’s profitability, asset quality, and overall capability. In 2026, the foundation of the bank’s business strategy will rest on three pillars—good governance, discipline, and responsible growth. To achieve this, the bank is intensifying its business process re-engineering activities and further strengthening centralized credit and risk functions. At the same time, emphasis is being placed on expanding digital and automation-driven structures. He highlighted special focus on retail, SME, agriculture, export-import, remittance, and digital banking sectors.

Managing Director and CEO Mohd. Rafat Ullah Khan said that a strong and sustainable bank can only be built on trust, integrity, and discipline. Al-Arafah Islami Bank is committed to establishing a morally sound and modern banking system through digital transformation. Despite various challenges in the past year, the bank has achieved significant progress. Institutional accountability, ensuring compliance, and centralized operations have made the bank’s activities more streamlined.

With confident and responsible leadership, he expressed determination to make 2026 a year of turnaround for the bank. He emphasized giving the highest priority to quality investment, ethics, good governance, and transparency.

At the conference, in recognition of significant contributions to operating profit, deposit mobilization, investment disbursement and recovery, as well as overall development achievements, special honors were awarded across various categories to 77 branches, 32 officers for individual performance and one department of the head office.

It is noteworthy that, according to unaudited figures, by the end of 2025 the bank’s total deposits stood at Tk 54,594 crore, while total investments amounted to Tk 50,457 crore. During this period, imports and exports were Tk 35,840 crore and Tk 25,910 crore respectively. Remittances received during the same time totaled Tk 9,606 crore.