BRAC Bank has launched ‘Agami Personal Loan’ – a new customized product to help parents and guardians with their children’s higher education.
This is the first such loan product of BRAC Bank for facilitating higher studies in Bangladesh and overseas, says a press release.
It is part of the bank’s ‘Agami Student Banking Services’ – a complete solution to financial needs for school, college and university students to have bank accounts, FD and DPS schemes, study-abroad credit cards, student files and student loans.
Parents and legal guardians of students of all University Grants Commission (UGC)-approved universities can apply for this loan.
This loan can also be availed to finance higher education in universities abroad.
In this case, the bank will arrange fund transfer to foreign educational institutions.
The loan will be disbursed in different installments according to the customer’s preferred schedule synchronizing with the student’s academic calendar.
The loan can be paid back in maximum five years.
The parents or guardians with a minimum monthly income of Tk20,000 can apply for the loan and enjoy an attractive interest rate of eight per cent per annum.
The customers will get finance up to 130 per cent of total education expenses with a maximum limit ofTk20 lakh.
Commenting on the new product, MdMahiul Islam, head of Retail Banking, BRAC Bank, said, “Every year, around one million students graduate from Higher Secondary level in Bangladesh. Many families find it difficult to bear the cost of university education, especially, in local private and overseas universities. To help remove the financial burden of parents and guardians, we have designed Agami Personal Loan.”
