Under the guidance of the Financial Inclusion Department of Bangladesh Bank, the School Banking Conference-2025 was successfully organised in the Moulvibazar district, with Jamuna Bank PLC taking the lead in hosting the event.
Karmasangsthan Bank held 鈥楤usiness Development Meeting-2025鈥� in Mymensingh on Saturday with the participation of branch managers and field officers of Mymensingh, Netrakona and Kishoreganj regions.
The business review meeting of Chattogram south zone, Chattogram north zone, Khatunganj and Agrabad corporate branches of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC was held on Friday.
Bangladesh Bank governor Ahsan H Mansur said that the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, the central bank and other government organisations were working to bring back laundered money by forming an inter-agency taskforce.
Economists, researchers and academics have emphasised curtailing non-performing loans to ensure good governance in the banking sector and make the country鈥檚 economy vibrant...
City Bank PLC on Thursday launched the City Bank American Express Platinum Reserve Credit Card, the first-ever metal card in Bangladesh...
Today is the 15th death anniversary of Tanzir Fahim Jumma, eldest son of Sajjatuz Jumma, founder chairman of Shahjalal Islami Bank PLC and former senior vice-president of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry...
Bangladesh Bank governor Ahsan H Mansur on Wednesday聽said that there was a plan to merge Islamic banks to form two large banks...
A persistent decline in private-sector credit growth is concerning. A sluggish private sector credit growth has a direct negative impact on industrial expansion, new investment and employment opportunities. The private sector credit growth fell to 6.82 per cent in February, hitting its lowest in the past two decades, according to available Bangladesh Bank data. A...
The Asian Development Bank has projected that Bangladesh鈥檚 economic growth would slow to 3.9 per cent in the 2024-25 financial year, down from 4.2 per cent in FY24...
Bangladesh Investment Development Authority executive chairman Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun on Tuesday said that the New Development Bank would give Bangladesh $1 billion in loan by the next one year...
The private sector credit growth in Bangladesh fell to 6.82 per cent in February, hitting its lowest in 21 years, according to available data. The Bangladesh Bank data showed that the growth was the lowest since February 2004 when the rate was...
Bangladesh could attract significant investments and create millions of jobs by implementing essential reforms across four sectors, according to a World Bank Group report released today at the Bangladesh Investment Summit 2025...
Md Rabiul Islam, a well-known banker with 36 years of experience, has joined SBAC Bank PLC as additional managing director...
As a part of Corporate Social Responsibility, the Board of Directors of Pubali Bank PLC donated a bus to Islamic University of Technology (IUT)...
A total of 100 officials from BRAC Bank have been officially certified by the Bangladesh Insurance Academy after completing the 鈥楤ancassurance鈥� training...
Nurullah Chaudhury has joined Bank Asia PLC as additional managing director and chief wholesale banking officer on Monday...
A DECLINE in the non-performing loans recovery ratio, which is concerning, suggests that the measures taken are not effective and stringent enough. The recovery ratio of non-performing loans dropped significantly in the final quarter of 2024, with the ratio standing at 3.44 per cent, down from 5.12 per cent in the corresponding 2023 quarter, as data of Bangladesh Bank...
The BRICS-established New Development Bank has planned to raise its lending to Bangladesh development projects to US$ one billion this year, a vice-president of the Shanghai-based multilateral lender said in Dhaka on Tuesday.
A Dhaka court on Monday convicted and sentenced 11 individuals to different terms of jail in a case lodged over embezzlement of Sonali Bank money through loan forgery...
Bangladesh Bank governor Ahsan H Mansur on Monday said that the central bank had taken an initiative to launch a special fund of about Tk 800 crore to Tk 900 crore to support startup...
A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered to freeze 34 bank accounts of former director general of Special Security Force Lieutenant General (sacked) Md Mujibur Rahman and his wife Tasrin Mujib over graft allegations...
Bangladesh witnessed a record-breaking surge in remittance inflow in March, receiving $3.29 billion鈥攖he highest ever in a single month, according to Bangladesh Bank data...
Islami Bank has placed its managing director, Mohammed Monirul Moula, on a three-month leave effective from Monday...
The Bangladesh Bank has rejected the International Monetary Fund鈥檚 suggestion to lower the policy interest rate, saying that no such move would be considered until inflation dropped to the targeted level...
The top 10 banks in Bangladesh have collectively written off Tk 41,129 crore in bad loans by the end of December 2024, accounting for nearly half of the total written-off loans in the banking sector, according to Bangladesh Bank data.
BRAC Bank has partnered with Unimart, the country鈥檚 leading premium supermarket chain, to offer priority checkout counter privileges...
Banks disbursed Tk 22,125 crore in agricultural loans during July-February period of the 2024-25 financial year, achieving 58 per cent of the total disbursement target for FY25, according to Bangladesh Bank data...
A portion of the embankment in Anulia union under Ashashuni upazila in Satkhira, collapsed on the morning of March 31, causing approximately 150 feet of land to be washed away into the Khulpetua River...
Far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said that 2024 had been a 鈥榬ecord鈥� year for demolitions of Palestinian constructions鈥�