The shareholders of Agrani Bank Limited have approved adopting the PLC suffix for the lender, Agrani Bank PLC, in the third special and extraordinary general meeting held at the bank's head office in Dhaka yesterday.

Zaid Bakht, chairman of the board of directors of the bank, presided over the meeting, where Nahid Hossain, representative of the government and joint secretary of the Financial Institutions Division of the finance ministry, was present, said a press release. 

Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, observer and executive director of Bangladesh Bank, Biswajit Bhattacharya Khokon, Mafiz Uddin Ahmed, Kashem Humayun, KMN Manjurul Haque Labloo, Khondker Fazle Rashid, Tanjina Ismail, Md Shahadat Hossain, and Mohammad Masud Rana Chowdhury, board of directors, attended the meeting.

Md Murshedul Kabir, managing director and CEO, Wahida Begum, Md Anwarul Islam, Shyamal Krishna Saha, and Rezina Parveen, deputy managing directors, and SM Tawhide Rabbani, company secretary, were also present.