Business Desk :
IFIC Bank Limited has launched a special service ‘IFIC Freelancer Service Package’ for freelancers working in Bangladesh to bring their income earned from abroad into their bank accounts quickly, safely and seamlessly and simultaneously provide them with all kinds of banking services.
Prime Minister’s Private Industry & Investment Advisor and IFIC Bank’s Chairman Salman F Rahman, inaugurates the service package at the bank’s head office in the capital on Sunday.
Shah A Sarwar, Managing Director & CEO, Deputy Managing Directors, Head of Retail Banking Ferdousi Begum and other senior officials of the bank, Chairman of Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society (BFDS) Dr Tanjiba Rahman, Managing Director of Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority Dr Bikarna Kumar Ghosh, representatives of BFDS, freelancers, various professionals, were present in the programme, said a press release.
Salman F. Rahman said that today Bangladesh has become `Digital Bangladesh’ due to the efforts of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her ICT advisor Sajib Wazed Joy.
When many first-world countries were struggling during the Covid-19 pandemic, we survived because we were able to become a digital nation. Now is the time for us to become a smart Bangladesh, the 4th industrial revolution is about to happen. We have to be prepared for technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Robotics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning etc. Freelancers have an important role to play in this sector.
This banking service package of IFIC includes Export Retention Quota (ERQ) account, freelancers will get a Visa International Debit Card against the US dollar of this ERQ account and an IFIC Aamar Account, against which they will get an IFIC Aamar Card- Visa International Cross Currency Debit Card. One-stop banking service facilities and dedicated service counters for freelancers will be available at 1200+ IFIC Bank shakha-uposhakha across the country. They will get the MFS transactions facility like bkash, Nagad etc. directly from their bank account. They will get an attractive profit like FDR on the deposited money on a daily basis rate and can withdraw it at the end of the month. With IFIC Aamar Card, anyone can withdraw money from any bank’s ATM across the country without any cost.
