A broad study on BRAC EPL Investment Limited

Abstract

BRAC EPL Investments Limited is a merchant bank and subsidiary of BRAC Bank Limited. It commenced operation under a new management team obtaining merchant bank license from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and became BRAC EPL (BRAC EPL Investments Ltd. & BRAC EPL Stock Brokerage Ltd.) from EPL in August 2009. BRAC Bank holds 76% of the equity of BRAC EPL, the rest held by a diverse group of international fund managers and capital market institutions at home and abroad. BRAC EPL Investments Ltd. delivers a whole range of investment banking services including traditional merchant ban king activities. It has already established itself as one of the top portfolio managers, serving more than 5600 clients country-wide from seven locations. In discharging professional services, BEIL makes concerted efforts to show ZERO tolerance towards non-compliance and emphasizes strict adherence to regulatory guidelines. The report focuses on “Business Process Reengineering of BRAC EPL Investments Limited ". BEIL commenced its business just 6 years back. So it can be said that it is comparatively a new organization in the market. After only two years of its inception, the company faced the biggest capital market turbulence in the history of financial markets of Bangladesh. Its upward trend of net income got broken as soon as the capital market storm hit. The report is enriched in the sterps that the organization should maintain to recover its current volatile situation by reengineering their business process. The financial performance analysis of BRAC EPL Investments Limited showed a significant deviation in the year 2014 in almost all the analyses. So, we can say that the capital market distress had a great impact on the profit growth of BRAC EPL. If BEIL acquire such steps of reengineering their business process then recent dilemma and distress management may recover earlier. One prerequisite of having a healthy investment climate in an economy is the availability of financing facility for the existing and potential borrowers. The two major sources of finance in any country are the banks and the capital market. So it is very important for BRAC EPL Investments Limited to cope up with the turmoil of capital market of Bangladesh to have a consistent profit growth.