Askari Bank Limited (the Bank) is a Pakistan-based holding company. The Bank is a commercial bank engaged in the business of banking. The Bank's segments include Corporate financing, which includes corporate and investment banking activities, such as mergers and acquisition, underwriting, privatization, securitization and secondary private placements; Trading and Sales, which includes its treasury and money market activities; Retail banking, which provides services to small borrowers and include loans, deposits and other transactions with retail customers, and credit card business; Commercial Banking, which provides services related to project finance, export finance, trade finance, leasing, lending, guarantees, bills of exchange and deposits from corporate customers; Payment and settlement, which includes income from payments and collections, funds transfer, clearing and settlement, and Agency services, which includes income from rent of lockers provided to customers.