Insurance coverage for 50,000 women remittance recipients by: 2025 BRAC Bank

BRAC Bank-Green Delta Insurance have partnered to offer insurance perks to the TARA Probashi Poribar scheme of the bank.

Dhaka, Monday, 19 May 2025: BRAC Bank aims to provide life and health insurance coverage to 50,000 women remittance beneficiaries by 2025 as part of its plan to incorporate more value-added services to its comprehensive remittance services.

In a first-of-its-kind insurance benefits to remittance receivers, the bank has partnered with Green Delta Insurance to add insurance perks to its newly introduced TARA Probashi Poribar proposition.  

Through this partnership, women receiving foreign remittances will be entitled to

complimentary insurance benefits, including life coverage of up to Tk 2 lac, annual health insurance worth up to Tk 50,000, maternity care, and both outpatient (OPD) and inpatient (IPD) medical treatment.

These benefits are built within the TARA Probashi Poribar Account—a purpose-

designed solution tailored to the financial needs of women who manage remittance funds at home. Alongside insurance, the account offers debit card and internet banking facilities, as well as monthly interest on savings—encouraging financial inclusion and formal saving behaviour.

At present, nearly 60,000 women receive remittances directly through BRAC

Bank—making up 35% of the bank’s total remittance receiving account holders. This growing customer base spans across key remittance-heavy districts including Sylhet, Feni, Noakhali, Cumilla, Chattogram, Munshiganj, Faridpur, Gazipur and Tangail.

The insurance benefits to TARA Probashi Poribar Account will inspire wage earners to send hard-earned foreign currency through banking channel, enhancing remittance inflow needed to bolster foreign currency reserves of the country.

Md. Shaheen Iqbal CFA, Deputy Managing Director and Head of Treasury and Financial Institutions at BRAC Bank, remarked, “TARA Probashi Poribar is our commitment to recognise women’s role in the remittance flow, institutionalise care, and ensure woman gets appropriate service and protection. By bringing Insurance into comprehensive remittance proposition, we are protecting lives, empowering families, and ultimately serving remittance earners and their families.”

This inclusive initiative reflects a long-term vision to include ancillary benefits to

remittance customers, especially for the women, who are central to Bangladesh’s

remittance economy, acknowledging their contribution and further amplifying their role in national progress. – Press release