Dhaka, May 19 -- Eastern Bank has signed a Technical Assistance (TA) Framework Agreement with DEG Impulse- a wholly owned subsidiary of DEG - and the Joint Impact Model (JIM) Foundation to bolster its capacity in assessing, measuring, and managing climate-related financial risks.

The agreement was formally signed recently at EBL's head office in Dhaka by Mehdi Zaman, Deputy Managing Director and Head of Treasury, Financial Institutions, and Offshore Banking at EBL; Dr Hubertus Pleister, Managing Director of DEG Impulse; and Alex MacGillivray, Executive Director of the JIM Foundation, according to a media release.

The signing ceremony was also attended by Juliane Loch, Director - FI Debt Asia/EMECA at DEG.

As part of this strategic coll...