Prime Bank

DSE: PRIMEBANK

Banking · Prime

Prime Bank is a private commercial bank in Bangladesh offering a full range of corporate, retail, and SME banking services. It is listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in the top-tier 'A' category.

Business: Corporate and commercial lending, retail/consumer banking, SME finance, trade finance and import-export services, treasury, and Islamic banking windows; also offshore banking and a non-bank financial subsidiary footprint.

Market data

Market capitalisation

36,559 mn BDT

Paid-up capital

12,186 mn BDT

Outstanding shares

1,218,620,091

Last price

29.7 BDT

Listed

2000

Market category

A

Source: Dhaka Stock Exchange, fetched 2026-05

Policy exposure

Concentration of the banking system in many similarly sized private commercial banks, of which Prime Bank is one. A crowded private bank sector with thin differentiation raises consolidation and efficiency questions for Bangladesh Bank's sector reform agenda. Source: analysis

Sector-wide non-performing loan (NPL) exposure and provisioning discipline. Asset quality across Bangladesh's private banks affects systemic stability and the credibility of reported capital adequacy. Source: analysis

Trade-finance and forex intermediation role amid recurring dollar-liquidity stress. Banks active in import financing transmit external-sector pressure to firms, making forex policy a direct constraint on their loan books. Source: analysis