EXIM Bank CEO Irfan Bukhari told the committee that the bill will play a key role in boosting the country’s exports and will also provide a level playing field to the exporters. The major aim of the bill is to provide material support to exporters in delivering their products to the international markets.
It’s an interesting time to be setting up a new export-oriented development financial institution, but Irfan Bukhari, President, and CEO of EXIM Bank of Pakistan is brim full of enthusiasm about the opportunity and his journey. Bukhari, a former stalwart of the IsDB Group, tells us about his aspirations for the development bank with a mission ‘supporting export growth through diversification’.
On June 9th, 2022, the National Assembly passed the “The Export-Import Bank of Pakistan Bill, 2022” with the Government’s intention to establish the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of Pakistan as the official Export Credit Agency of Pakistan for the promotion of international trade.