UCB signs deal with Small World

United Commercial Bank yesterday signed a remittance service agreement with Small World Financial Services Group Ltd.

Arif Quadri, managing director and CEO of the bank, and Khalid Fellahi, Group CEO of Small World, signed the remittance service deal at the bank's head office in Dhaka, according to a press release. 

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Small World, a cross-border payment service provider, will enable over 3 million customers to make payments online or via a physical network of more than 250,000 locations, 10,000 agents and 80 stores across 196 countries.

Now, Bangladeshi expatriates living in 196 countries across the world can safely and easily send money through Small World to their loved ones in Bangladesh, it said.

Stanley Wachs, managing director for Northern Europe, Africa and Asia of Small World, Mohammed Atiqur Rahman, corridor ambassador for Bangladesh, and Syed Faridul Islam and Abul Alam Ferdous, additional managing directors of the bank, and ATM Tahmiduzzaman, deputy managing director, were present.