Banking Technology AdvisoryKhandaker Anwar
Khandaker Anwar
Founder and CEO, Mind Maprs | Former CTO, AB Bank PLC
Twenty-six years in banking technology, eighteen of them running a live core banking, card, payments, channel, and disaster recovery estate.
Profile
Khandaker Anwar has spent 26 years in banking technology. For 18 of those years he was at AB Bank PLC, where he rose to Executive Vice President and Head of IT and eBiz Operations, and served concurrently as Chief Technology Officer of AB Bank India Operations. In that role he was accountable for a live core banking, card, payments, channel, and disaster recovery estate, and led the bank through successive platform, channel, and regulatory transitions.
He founded Mind Maprs to bring that operating experience to the advisory side of the table. His work centers on the decisions that shape a bank for a decade: which core to run, how to migrate without losing a day, how to build a security posture the regulator will accept, and how to govern technology investment at Board level.
He currently serves as Consultant to the Board for Technology and Digital Transformation at a Shariah-based scheduled bank, advising on core systems, cybersecurity posture, digital channel strategy, and regulatory compliance. He leads digital transformation and centralization advisory engagements at other scheduled banks, has advised a telecom group on its digital bank initiative, and has advised payment platform and cloud infrastructure providers on strategy, architecture, and regulatory alignment.
He writes regularly for the Bangladesh banking community on technology, regulation, and transformation, including the “Bangladesh Business Breakdown” series on LinkedIn.
Where the practice concentrates
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The team
More than 100 years
Mind Maprs Banking Technology Advisory is delivered by a team with more than 100 years of combined banking and banking technology leadership. Alongside the technology specialists in core and enterprise systems, network and data center infrastructure, and information security, the team includes a Shariah expert, a credit expert, a trade finance expert, and a general banking expert, each a senior banker who has run these functions in Bangladesh. This is deliberate: technology change in a bank is judged on whether products, contracts, and customer records move correctly, and the people validating them must have run them.
Representative engagements
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Consultant to the Board, Technology and Digital Transformation, Shariah-based scheduled bank. Standing advisory to the Board on technology strategy, digital transformation direction, and technology governance.
Digital Transformation Advisory, private commercial bank. IT assessment, consolidation of multiple core banking systems, vendor evaluation, migration strategy, investment planning, and a phased roadmap.
Centralization Advisory, private commercial bank. Core banking gap analysis, data-flow and API inventory, and architectural integrity assessment mapped to Bangladesh Bank CBS and ICT Security guidelines.
Post-Merger IT Estate Assessment and Migration Strategy, merged Islamic bank. Assessment of five legacy IT estates and a single migration strategy under Zero Downtime and Security First constraints.
Digital Bank Initiative, telecom group. Complete technical documentation, budget, and digital product design for a proposed digital bank.
Payment platform and cloud infrastructure providers. Consultancy on payment platform strategy, cloud infrastructure, solution architecture, and regulatory alignment.
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