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Bangladesh Bank Just Released Its 2024 ESG Rankings for Banks. 4 Were Dropped, 4 Are New

Every year, Bangladesh Bank ranks its banks on sustainability. This year's results just landed, and the shuffles matter.

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Bangladesh Bank’s Sustainability Finance Report 2024 named ten banks as sustainable: BRAC Bank, City Bank, Dutch-Bangla Bank, Eastern Bank, Jamuna Bank, Mutual Trust Bank, NCC Bank, Prime Bank, Pubali Bank, and Shahjalal Islami Bank, while Exim Bank, Trust Bank, United Commercial Bank, and Uttara Bank dropped off from the 2023 list.

The five rating criteria: Sustainable Finance Index, CSR activities, green project financing, Core Banking Sustainability Index, and Banking Services Coverage.

Four banks lost their rating. Four new ones entered. Bangladesh Bank first introduced the sustainability rating system in 2020 to encourage financial institutions to integrate ESG considerations into their operations.

This isn’t ceremonial. Banks with higher ratings get better access to Bangladesh Bank’s green refinancing schemes, development partner attention, and increasingly, institutional investor consideration.

The sustainability rating is becoming a competitive differentiator. The question isn’t whether your bank cares about ESG. It’s whether your people know how to report it.

Source: The Daily Star

Source: Bangladesh Bank Sustainability Finance Report 2024 · The Daily Star, March 19, 2026. Bars are illustrative of relative status, not precise scores.

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