EBL, Mastercard launch ‘Aqua Women Prepaid Card’

Eastern Bank and MasterCard recently launched an "Aqua Women Prepaid Card" at a roundtable on financial inclusion for women's economic empowerment at the bank's Dhaka head office yesterday marking International Women's Day.

The card comes with offers for women in shopping at grocery and clothing outlets, dining, salons, jewellery shops and e-commerce portals, said a press release. Other benefits include dual currency facility, global access to funds, exclusive buy-one-get-one hotel stay offers and dining and lifestyle offers at over 5,500 partner outlets in Bangladesh.

Ali Reza Iftekhar, managing director of Eastern Bank, Syed Mohammad Kamal, country manager of MasterCard Bangladesh, Habibur Rahman, chief economist, Abul Basher, executive director of Bangladesh Bank, Nazneen Ahmed, country economist of UNDP, Rupali Chowdhury, managing director of Berger Paints, and former MCCI president Barrister Nihad Kabir were present.