Saturday, January 14, 2023

Nabil Bank to distribute 30 per cent dividend in cash and shares

 Kathmandu, Jan. 13

Nabil Bank Limited has decided to distribute 30 per cent dividend to its shareholders from the profits of the last Fiscal Year 2021/22 and other distributable funds.

The 38th Annual General Meeting of the bank on Friday passed a resolution to distribute 30 per cent dividend – 18.5 per cent bonus shares and 11.5 per cent cash dividend – to its shareholders, it said in a statement while claiming that it gave the highest dividend among the class ‘A’ commercial banks in the country.

The AGM elected three directors Nirvana Chaudhary, Malay Mukherjee and A.R.M. Najmus Shakib from the founding shareholders group.

Likewise, the bank claimed that it earned the highest profit, Rs. 4.25 billion, among private sector banks in the last fiscal. After the distribution of the bonus shares proposed from the profit of the last year, the bank's paid-up capital would exceed Rs. 27 billion.

Chairman of the Board of the Directors of the bank Upendra Prasad Paudyal said that Nabil Bank has succeeded in modernising Nepal's banking sector, providing dynamism to the commercial and industrial activities of the country, and playing the role of a helper in creating employment opportunities.

With 240 branches, 275 ATMs and 8 remit agents, Nabil Bank is confident of moving forward with all its stakeholders by providing services nationwide and through many agents around the world, said the bank. 

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 14 January 2022.  

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