Mercantile Bank launched 35 agent banking outlets across the country yesterday to provide basic banking services to the unbanked population.

Md Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, managing director, virtually inaugurated the outlets, says a press release.

Mati Ul Hasan, additional managing director, and Adil Raihan, deputy managing director, were present.

Currently, the lender has 162 agent banking outlets.

Customer can enjoy banking services such as account opening, deposit schemes, cash deposits, withdrawals, transfers and remittance easily through biometric authentication.