City Bank

DSE: CITYBANK

Banking · Anwar Group-linked

City Bank is one of the older private commercial banks in Bangladesh, offering a full range of retail, corporate and SME banking services. It is associated with the Anwar group business family.

Business: Retail and corporate banking, SME and commercial lending, cards and consumer finance, trade finance, treasury, and digital banking channels.

Market data

Market capitalisation

50,383 mn BDT

Paid-up capital

17,494 mn BDT

Outstanding shares

1,749,405,380

Last price

28.7 BDT

Listed

1987

Market category

A

Source: Dhaka Stock Exchange, fetched 2026-05

Policy exposure

Sponsor association with a single business family raises the bank-group nexus question of how concentrated ownership influences credit allocation and board independence. Family/industrial-group control of banks is a core driver of related-party lending risk that Bangladesh Bank governance reforms target. Source: analysis

As a long-established commercial bank, asset quality and non-performing-loan exposure are central to its risk profile in a stressed banking sector. NPL accumulation erodes capital buffers and provisioning capacity, a system-wide fiscal and stability concern. Source: analysis

Trade finance and import-LC activity expose the bank to foreign-currency liquidity stress during periods of reserve pressure. Bank-level forex liquidity constraints can throttle import financing for the wider economy, linking the bank to balance-of-payments policy. Source: analysis