Mercantile Bank has recently opened seven more new agent banking outlets across the country to provide basic banking services to the unbanked population amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The bank's Managing Director and CEO Md Quamrul Islam Chowdhury inaugurated the outlets yesterday through a digital platform, the bank said in a statement. Mati Ul Hasan, assistant managing director, and Adil Raihan, deputy managing director, also attended the programme, according to the statement.