City Bank recently signed an agreement with the Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society (BFDS) and Freelancers Limited (FL) at City Bank Center.
Under this agreement, City Bank will be allowed to verify Freelancer ID and will ensure smooth service delivery of deposits, loan, credit card and other banking services to freelancers from the City Bank branches, reads a press release.
The flagship product, Freelancer Deposit Product will allow freelancers in the country to open accounts at City Bank.
They will be allowed to operate two accounts, a Freelancer ERQ Account and Freelancer Savings Account which will allow them to receive foreign currency earnings from online marketplaces to Freelancer ERQ Accounts and retain the dollar amounts for further bona fide international payments (Within regulatory limit) free of transactional cost.
This signing ceremony will initiate a strategic partnership with City Bank and BFDS, FL, and pave the way for making banking services faster and hassle-free for freelancers in Bangladesh.
In presence of Sheikh Mohammad Maroof, additional managing director of City Bank, Md Arup Haider, head of Retail Banking of City Bank and Dr Tanjiba Rahman, chairman of both BFDS and FL signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organizations.
Mahia Juned, deputy managing director of City Bank and high officials of both organizations were also present at the event.
