Citi is already on the ground in Dhaka, where its operation is run by Mamun Rashid, and it acts as a full-service bank and correspondent banking service provider.
The Bangladesh equities market has been very vibrant for a number of years and subject to perennial booms and busts. Ten years ago, during a bull run, there was a ôkerb marketö thriving in Dhaka and, as the last of its kind in Asia, it was a memorable sight to behold. A kerb market is where share dealers, retail investors and speculators congregate on the street outside the stockmarket in their hundreds, and trade physical scrip, all making a huge racket and carrying bundles of share certificates and bags of banknotes. CitiÆs custody and settlement service will make things more efficient in Dhaka, but a lot less colourful.
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