Prime Minister's Private Industry & Investment Advisor Mr Salman F Rahman on Sunday said its time to be prepared for technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Robotics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning etc.
Speaking as the chief guest at the launching of a special service 'IFIC Freelancer Service Package' of IFIC Bank for freelancers working in Bangladesh, Salman F. Rahman also said that today Bangladesh has become `Digital Bangladesh’ due to the efforts of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her ICT advisor Sajib Wazed Joy.
When many first-world countries were struggling during the Covid-19 pandemic, we survived because
IFIC Bank has launched the special service 'IFIC Freelancer Service Package' for freelancers working in Bangladesh to bring their income earned from abroad into their bank accounts quickly, safely & seamlessly and simultaneously provide them with all kinds of banking services.
The launching ceremony of the service package was organized at IFIC Tower, Purana Paltan in the capital.
Salman F Rahman, also the Chairman of the IFIC Bank mentioned that now is the time for us to become a smart Bangladesh, the 4th industrial revolution is about to happen.
Managing Director & CEO of IFIC Bank Shah A Sarwar, Chairman of Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society Dr Tanjiba Rahman, Managing Director of Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority Dr Bikarna Kumar Ghosh, officials of IFIC Bank, representatives of Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society (BFDS), freelancers, various professionals and journalists were present in the program.
freelancers will be able to improve themselves and the country by taking various banking facilities. Today's freelancers are tomorrow's entrepreneurs, for achieving this goal, IFIC Bank will always be by their side. In the future, with freelancers’ hard work, it will be possible to earn the same amount of foreign income from the ICT sector as the readymade garment sector.
Chairman of Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society (BFDS) Tanjiba Rahman said, about six and a half lacs freelancers are actively working in our country. Many of them often face challenges in transferring their income earned from abroad to their accounts in Bangladesh. Hopefully, we will not have to face these challenges as IFIC Bank has launched 'IFIC Freelancer Service Package'.
IFIC Bank Managing Director and CEO Shah A Sarwar said, our main objective is to bring people from all classes of society under banking services. In that continuation, the journey of this IFIC freelancer banking package started. This banking service package of IFIC includes Export Retention Quota (ERQ) account, freelancers will get a Visa International Debit Card against the US dollar of this ERQ account and an IFIC Aamar Account, against which they will get an IFIC Aamar Card- Visa International Cross Currency Debit Card.
