Bangabandhu conferred ‘FOSWAL Literature Award’ for his trilogy
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Learned, wise and preserving personality Mohammad N.S. Kabir, Managing director and CEO of Fidelity Assets and Securities Company Ltd. is a person of versatile genius with high educational background and vast international exposure. Successful business are built upon solid foundations of dedication, Precise acumen and clear ambition. Mr. Kabir comes of respectable muslim family of a village Narangol under Badergonj Upazilla of Barisal district. He has obtained BA (Hons) and M.A. degrees from University of Dhaka and Diploma in Labour Economics from the then Soviet Union (USSR), Post graduat degree from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He was a research fellow at the University of Stockholm and completed senior level courses in financial services such as CSC, CIFC & LLGP in Canada. He has worked few years in Canadian Financial Institutions.
Under his prudent and dynamic leadership, Fidelity Assets & Securities Company Ltd. a Third Generation Non- Banking Financial Institution (NBFI) has marked spectacular growth. The company intends to turn it into a mulit-product financial institution and intends to invest in the following areas: ICT sector, Textile Industry garment / knitwear sector, Food & Beverage, Health Care Hospital & Diagnostic Center, Ceramic Industry. Transport Sector, Heavy and Light Engineering Sector, Bridge Finance, Bill discounting, Real Estate Sector (Both Residential & Commercial) Pharmaceutical Industry etc. Authorized capital of the company is Tk. 500 Million divided into 5 million ordinary shares of Tk. 100 each while paid up capital is as on December 2008 Tk. 39,06,57,000. The present investment of portfolio is over Tk. 125 Crore.
Currently, FASCL is offering the products like Lease Finance, Term Finance, Syndicated Loan, Work Order Finance, Home Loan and Real Estate Finance. The company extends lease finance for all types of machinery equipment, vehicles and household durables. It also accepts Term Deposits from the clients. The company also operates merchant banking activities to contribute in the country’s Capital Market. FASCL offers both fund based and fee based services / products all over the country, which include @ Fund Based Services Lease Finance, Term Loan Finance, Housing Finance, Industrial Finance, Trading of Securities and (b) Fee Based Services Merchant Banking Activities, Underwriting and investment portfolio.
Mr. Kabir is associated with a various national and international socio-economic and cultural association. He is a corporate member of Bangladesh-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BMCCI), a Director of India- Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IBCCI). He is also the Chairman of the finance Committee of International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB). He was a member of the executive committee of FICCI from 1991-1995, a Director of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Mr. Kabir represented Bangladesh in various meeting at TUO, UK, INTUC, India, AUCCTU, USSR, ZENTAL, Japan and ICFU, Belgium. He has also two research works which are “A Time Series Approach to Study labor Intensive Industry and “The United States and Sweden. A comprehensive Socio-Cultural Analysis”.