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Padma Bank

Private commercial bank in Bangladesh

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Padma Bank PLC. is a private commercial bank headquartered in Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The bank was established in 2013. The fourth-generation bank commenced its banking operation on June 3, 2013. By an order on January 29, 2019, Bangladesh Bank changed the name of The Farmers Bank Limited to Padma Bank Limited after the bank failed to pay its liabilities due to numerous bad loans and embezzlements.

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The public source identifies “Padma Bank” as private commercial bank in Bangladesh. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Padma, Bank and Private.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Padma, Bank and Private providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Padma Bank” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.