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Primeacademia services for Prime College of Nursing

Prime Bank PLC and Prime College of Nursing, Dhaka, signed an agreement through which students, teachers, guardians and staff of Prime College will get seamless banking services under its specialised segment `primeacademia’...

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BRAC Bank partners with ShareTrip

BRAC Bank has partnered with ShareTrip, a travel and lifestyle company, to provide exclusive benefits to its premium banking senior customers...

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Anis becomes GM of Janata Bank

Mohammad Anis has been promoted to general manager of Janata Bank PLC’s IT, overseas and MIS division, said a press release...

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Israel’s annexation drive

IT HAS the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness. First, levelling Gaza and turning it to an uninhabitable moonscape, with the promise of a territory free of Palestinians. Then, displacing and destroying the already precarious holdings of Palestinian residents in the West Bank, all the time subjecting them to curfews, arrests and...

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Guarding against data breach

THE cyberspace of Bangladesh has made the headlines for breaches on many occasions since the reserve theft of the Bangladesh Bank. The recent one took place in late October 2024 when user data of 5,000 people were leaked from web site that sold tickets for an Atif Aslam concert in Dhaka. All this shows that we have a long way to go to protect our digital landscape...

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Uncovering, recovering default loans should go together

This is welcome that the central bank has adopted international loan classification standards and changed classification policies to get the actual picture of default loans. But a lack of measures to recover defaulted loans is worrying. The central bank has reduced the timeframe to classify loans as defaulted from the previous 270 days to 180 days. Since the adoption...

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Default loans hit record Tk 3.45 lakh crore

The volume of non-performing loans in the country’s banking sector has skyrocketed by Tk 2 lakh crore in just one year, reaching a staggering Tk 3.45 lakh crore at the end of December 2024...

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BB sets hours for BACH, RTGS during Ramadan

The Bangladesh Bank has announced a new operational timing for the transactions under Bangladesh Automated Clearing House and Real-Time Gross Settlement for the holy month of Ramadan...

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BRAC Bank wins Qorus Reinvention Award

BRAC Bank has been honoured with Qorus Reinvention Award 2025 for its innovation in expanding access to finance and markets through digitalisation, focusing on women and marginalised communities, said a press release...

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SEB hosts workshop on export transaction reporting

Southeast Bank PLC has recently organised a training workshop titled ‘Importance of timely and errorless reporting of Export transactions in Online Export Monitoring System’ for representatives of its exporter clients, said a press release...

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Dhaka Bank distributes agricultural machinery in Sirajganj

Dhaka Bank PLC distributed modern agricultural machinery among approximately 300 local farmers of Belkuchi Upazila in Sirajganj as part of its special corporate social responsibility (agriculture), said press release...

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Some sick banks may not survive: BB governor

Bangladesh Bank governor Ahsan H Mansur on Tuesday said that the banks those were hamstrung by classified loans over 80 per cent of their outstanding loans would not survive...

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MDB opens relocated Noapara sub-branch in Jashore

Midland Bank PLC on Monday inaugurated its relocated Noapara sub-branch at 26 Buikara, Kalahata, Joshore-Khulna Highway, Noapara pourashava, Aboynagar thana in Jashore, said a press release...

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Israel to keep troops in West Bank camps

Israel on Sunday said troops would stay in West Bank refugee camps for the coming year, announcing expanded military operations including tank deployments, after the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians...

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Loan disbursement to CMSME drops by 16pc

Loan disbursements to the Cottage, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (CMSME) sector dropped by 16 per cent in the July-September quarter of FY25 compared to the same period in FY24, due to political turmoil and economic instability during the period...

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Sonargaon Hotel rolls out Ramadan offers

Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, with Islami Bank as exclusive brand partner, has rolled out offers and facilities on the occasion of Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims beginning in the first week of March, said a press release...

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Bank Asia organises AML, CFT conference

Bank Asia PLC has organised the annual ‘AML and CFT Conference 2025’ with the theme ‘AML-CFT: fostering and enduring a culture of compliance’ to enhance anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism knowledge...

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Pubali Bank eyes expansion of remittance business

The two-day ‘Annual Managers’ Conference 2025’ participated by all 508 branch managers, regional managers and senior executives of head office of Pubali Bank was held at hotel Long Beach at Cox’s Bazar recently.

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Government to implement AVS to prevent fraud  

Senior officials from Bangladesh Bank and the finance division have announced that the government will implement the Account Verification System nationwide by June to ensure the accuracy of customer accounts as part of its...

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