Pubali Bank

DSE: PUBALIBANK

Banking · Pubali

Pubali Bank is one of the largest and oldest private commercial banks in Bangladesh by branch network, offering broad-based retail, SME and corporate banking across the country including rural areas.

Business: Retail and corporate banking, SME and agricultural/rural lending, deposits, trade finance, remittance services, and treasury, served through an extensive nationwide branch network.

Market data

Market capitalisation

50,587 mn BDT

Paid-up capital

14,966 mn BDT

Outstanding shares

1,496,650,099

Last price

33.6 BDT

Listed

1984

Market category

A

Source: Dhaka Stock Exchange, fetched 2026-05

Policy exposure

An extensive nationwide branch network, including rural reach, ties the bank to financial-inclusion and rural-credit policy objectives. Branch-based rural coverage makes the bank a channel for directed agricultural and SME credit programs and inclusion mandates. Source: analysis

A long-established loan book leaves it exposed to legacy non-performing loans within the stressed national banking sector. Legacy NPLs reduce provisioning headroom and lending capacity, a recurring prudential and fiscal-stability issue. Source: analysis

Large branch operations carry high fixed operating and staffing costs, a cost-efficiency pressure as banking digitises. The trade-off between physical-branch inclusion reach and digital cost efficiency is central to banking-sector modernisation policy. Source: analysis