National Bank of Pakistan (Bangladesh Branches)

The Bangladesh operations of the National Bank of Pakistan remain stagnant, characterized by a severe asset quality crisis and a high ratio of non-performing loans.

NBP opened its first Bangladesh branch in Dhaka in August 1994 per BIBM directory and the official nbp-bd.com website. established_year and license_year set to 1994. Four branches confirmed: (1) Motijheel, 79 Motijheel C/A, Dhaka 1000 (original August 1994 branch); (2) Agrabad, 69 Agrabad C/A, Chittagong (opened April 2004); (3) Sylhet, Metropolitan Market, Sobhanighat, Sylhet (opened April 1, 2008); (4) Gulshan, 80 Gulshan Avenue, Gulshan-1, Dhaka 1212 (opened April 3, 2008; also serves as Country/Controlling Office). The nbp-bd.com branches page returns a PHP/MySQL fatal error, preventing online verification of the live count; the count of 4 is cross-confirmed by banksbd.org, BIBM, and the official nbp-bd.com about page. SWIFT code: NBPABDDH (confirmed via banksbd.org; BIBM cites NBPNBDDH which may be a stale entry). Bank code: 155. All financials are null: NBP Bangladesh's FY2024 audited financial report is posted on nbp-bd.com/files/nbp_audited_report_2024.pdf but the PDF is a scanned image (pdfplumber extracted zero text pages despite 65 pages); no BDT financial figures found in any public press source. No country manager or general manager name was found on the official website or in any press source as of May 20, 2026; the management committee page (nbp-bd.com/page.php?id=11) does not display names. Credit rating: none found in public sources. Parent NBP Pakistan FY2025 net profit PKR 85.9 billion (record) per Dawn/Business Recorder; FY2024 pre-tax profit PKR 56.7 billion -- these are parent-level figures in PKR and are not reflected here. Foreign ownership 100% as NBP is a state-owned Pakistani bank operating as branches. IMPORTANT DISAMBIGUATION: National Bank of Pakistan (NBP, Pakistan state bank, SWIFT NBPABDDH, slug national-bank-of-pakistan-bangladesh) must not be confused with National Bank PLC (a separate Bangladeshi private commercial bank, SWIFT NBLBDDHD, slug national-bank-plc, listed on DSE as NBLBD). verification_status=partial: branch count, locations, SWIFT, established year are verified from 2+ primary sources; all financial and management fields are null due to inaccessible/scanned PDF and no public press coverage.