Grameen Bank
microfinance · Dhaka
· verified (record reviewed 2026-09-14)
Profile
- Chief executive
- Sarder Akhter Hamed
- Founded
- 1983
- Regulator
- other
- MRA-licensed
- no
- Active members
- 10880000
- Loan portfolio
- ৳177,839,950,000
- Staff
- 24485
- Coverage
- nationwide; present in 81,678 villages (about 94% of villages)
Deepening micro-enterprise financing, primary healthcare access, and disaster risk financing across vulnerable upazilas.
Recent activity
- 2026-06-25 regulatory Grameen Bank filed annual operational and financial compliance reporting with Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA). ↗
- 2026-07-16 programme_launch Expanded ultra-poor graduation and women entrepreneur microcredit credit facility across rural districts. ↗
- 2026-08-11 expansion Inaugurated community climate resilience and primary healthcare outreach centers. ↗
Provenance & notes
Grameen Bank is a statutory microcredit bank created by the Grameen Bank Ordinance 1983 (originating from Muhammad Yunus's 1976 Jobra pilot); it is not an MRA-licensed NGO-MFI but a government-chartered specialised bank, hence mra_licensed=false and regulator='other'. Operational figures (members 10.88M, 2,568 branches, 24,485 staff, outstanding loans BDT 177,839.95 million) are as of April 2026 per the official site introduction page; outstanding loans, not annual expenditure, used for loan_portfolio_bdt.