Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh held a workshop on euro at Sonargaon hotel Tuesday. says a press release issued yesterday.

The workshop was organised to familiarise Standard Chartered's Corporate and Institutional Banking clients with the emerging economic order in Europe with a single economic system and currency.

Lutfur Rahman Sarker. Governor of Bangladesh Bank, inaugurated the workshop as the chief guest. Among others, the workshop was attended by Geoff Williams. Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank in Bangladesh and managing directors and senior officials of 40 private companies and 20 commercial banks.

Geoff Williams in his welcome address stated that the workshop would help the participants sort out confessions over EMU. ECU, euro and other related issues.

Lutfur Rahman Sarker. in his speech lauded the role of Standard Chartered in bringing important and sensitive Issues for discussion with its client. He said that the euro workshop was a very timely Initiative since Europe, one of the largest trading partners of Bangladesh, will undergo major transformation as a result of a single economy and currency.

The workshop was also marked by a keynote slide presentation on euro by SAA Mas-rur, head of Corporate Banking. Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh ■

Mahmood Malik. Deputy Head, Kanti Kumar. Relationship Manager of Institutional Banking, and Alamgir Mor-shed, Manager Treasury of the bank, also gave presentations on the impacts of euro on Bangladesh's economy and trade.