LAHORE:

The most telling signals in banking are often the quietest and in case of The Bank of Punjab (BOP), that signal is not a headline-grabbing acquisition nor a record-breaking profit figure, but a simple, disciplined decision, ie, to pay its first-ever interim cash dividend. This 10%, or Rs1 per share, cash dividend, breaks a decades-long tradition of year-end-only payouts since its 1991 listing, sending a clear message to the market. The years of meticulous work to build a sturdier financial institution are over, and an era of sharing the rewards with shareholders has begun.

The management presented this step not as an isolated incident but as the logical outcome of a strengthened financial position. The clear ambition to potentially extend this practice to quarterly distributions

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