Mostafa Sarwar has a professional career of around 17 years in the banking industry. He started his career with EBL as Management Trainee in March 2006 and worked in EBL for more than 6 years in the SME Risk. He became Head of SME Risk in March 2013. In September 2013, Sarwar joined Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) as Credit Manager of Commercial Banking and worked there till March 2016. He joined Midland Bank in April 2016 as VP and Head of Corporate Risk. In May 2019, he became the Head of CRM. Before joining EBL, he was serving Midland Bank as Head of CRM.

Sarwar completed his Credit Skill Assessment from Omega Performance. He did his MBM from BIBM and B.Sc. in Electronics and Computer Science from Jahangirnagar University.