Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- Citibank, N.A. in Bangladesh is committed to play a pioneering role in introducing world-class innovative products and services for facilitating business activities in Bangladesh, a senior official of the global bank has said.

"Bangladesh has made rapid strides over the last many years, with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubling in the last seven to eight years. It has done so through export-oriented industrialisation, benefitting from its demographic dividend and focus on improving infrastructure," Mayank Gupta, managing director and head of Trade & Working Capital Solutions for Asia Pacific (South) of the New York-based bank, told The Financial Express (FE) in an exclusive interview recently.

He arrived in Dhaka ...