customer experienceWith customers increasingly making decisions based on the ease with which they can interact with their banks/inancial institutions, we are focusing on strengthening our customer experience propositions. Towards this extent, we pioneered the Citytouch app through which our customers can access a suite of inancial services, and today we are incorporating a larger range of features to further ease customer convenience. Enable on-the-go bankingOur customers can enjoy banking on-the-go, including the purchase of air tickets, make utility bill payments, pay school fees, transfer funds and keep track of their inances digitally on their smart-phone. Also, we have associated with bKash that enables our customers to transfer funds from Citytouch to bKash and that too free of charge. Going forward, we expect to further innovate around strengthening our customer service propositions, while enabling on-the-move banking around Improve our decision-making di-erent digital channels. capabilities by leveraging technology Our focus on strengthening our digital technology backbone, coupled with ensuring the highest security standards, especially with respect to customer privacy, enables us to yield rich data patterns. We expect to harvest this responsibly with a view to take decisions that enable us to further enhance our customer service standards and responsiveness. For instance, we established City Alo, a dedicated women banking platform, especially designed and curated to meet the requirements of our women customers. We are among the few in the country to o-er a dedicated platform for women banking. The insights for this came up after considering the fact that almost 50% of the population comprises women and the number of women entrepreneurs is growing in the country. Enhancing our Retail Banking platform There exists huge opportunity in reaching out to the masses located in the far corners of the country by leveraging technology. We are engaged in precisely this as we focus on augmenting our Retail Banking platform by extending the reach of our large product basket to retail customers. Speciically, we are focusing on Employee Banking, SMES, Cards, Personal Loans and Mortgage Finance with a view to serve the needs of our customers in a responsible and risk-eicient way. Meet the evolving regulatory and compliance requirements Operating in a dynamic environment, we have a proactive stance in meeting the evolving regulatory requirements. Towards this extent, we are also engaging in consultations with relevant authorities to enhance the implementation of statutory capital requirements, disclosures, reporting and loan classiication criteria. Importantly, we are embedding the culture of compliance as an essential part of our business strategy. 17