At 43, UCB is rebuilding from the inside out

United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB) turned 43 on June 26. Incorporated in Bangladesh in 1983, the bank has grown into one of the country’s largest first-generation private commercial banks.

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Chairman Sharif Zahir says results are beginning to show

28 June 2026, 00:00 AM

Jahidur Rahman

Sharif Zahir

United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB) turned 43 on June 26. Incorporated in Bangladesh in 1983, the bank has grown into one of the country’s largest first-generation private commercial banks. In the four decades since, it has operated through multiple changes of government, the Asian financial crisis, the global meltdown of 2008, a currency crisis, and a pandemic.Yet the bank’s more consequential test has been recent and internal -- a prolonged period of political interference and governance failure that the current leadership is now trying to put firmly behind it.