Saturday, May 4, 2013

Rastriya Banijya Bank to hire young employees

KATHMANDU: Rastriya Banijya Bank is looking forward to hiring more young employees in order to transform the bank into a more competitive and modern structure.

“At present, the average employee age of the bank is 49, and the bank is planning to bring new and young manpower that will bring down the average employee age to 37 within three years,” said CEO of Rastriya Banijya Bank (RBB) Krishna Prasad Sharma during a training programme for the bank staff.

“We have to emerge as a strong and modern bank in terms of technology, financial resources and manpower,” he said.

RBB had recently hired five financial analysts, 15 deputy financial analysts, agriculture officers and

legal officers through open competition.

“When other banks are suffering from high credit to deposit ratio, ours stands at around 50 per cent,” pointed out Sharma.

“We have enough disposable financial resources to expand credit, and due to low cost of fund we can offer credit at competitive rates as well,” said Sharma, informing that RBB will

focus on quality and productive projects to finance.

RBB — a wholly government owned bank — had undergone a decade-long financial restructuring programme for being on the verge of a meltdown. The bank’ non-performing assets, which was higher than 60 per cent a decade back, has finally come down to six per cent and its net worth has become positive.

The bank, which has 141 branches, has collected

deposits worth Rs 85 billion and floated loans worth

Rs 43 billion along with

investments of Rs 24 billion till first quarter end.

Source: The Himalayan Times, 3rd May 2013

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