BB asks banks, payment firms to set up cashless units
17 March 2026, 15:23 PM
Business
BB removes a director from Islami Bank board
16 March 2026, 23:54 PM
Business
Chairman of Sammilito Islami Bank Mohammad Ayub Mia resigns
16 March 2026, 15:01 PM
Business
Bangladesh Bank raises credit card loan limit to Tk 40 lakh
15 March 2026, 18:00 PM
Banking
Trust Bank gets BB exemption for multiple nominee directors
15 March 2026, 16:32 PM
Business
Islami Bank delays US investor’s entry into mCash subsidiary
15 March 2026, 15:38 PM
Business
Dismissed officials of five Islamic banks want their jobs back
12 March 2026, 19:30 PM
Business
Citi shuts most UAE branches temporarily
12 March 2026, 19:17 PM
Business
Bangladesh Bank asks bankers to avoid cars, use public transport
11 March 2026, 17:27 PM
Business
Banks allowed to offer loans against govt bonds
11 March 2026, 15:33 PM
Business
Mercantile Bank organises reunion with Udayan startups
Mercantile Bank organised a get-together with startup entrepreneurs availing its new product “Udayan” at the bank's training institute in
21 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh spends Tk 500cr on printing currency
Bangladesh has to spend around Tk 500 crore to print new currency notes and coins a year, a figure that may puzzle many people including policymakers.
18 October 2017, 18:00 PM
UCB steering Bangladesh to a cashless economy
The future is digital, it is often touted. And that is where United Commercial Bank is firmly heading with its revolutionary mobile application Upay, which was rolled out in Bangladesh on Tuesday.
18 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Global accolade for HSBC Bangladesh
HSBC has been voted “Best Domestic Cash Manager” for corporates in Bangladesh in the Euromoney Cash Management Survey 2017, the
15 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Islami Bank lending aggressively
Islami Bank's new management has taken on a spirited approach to lending, with its loan-deposit ratio sitting dangerously close to the
15 October 2017, 18:00 PM
BB rejects First Security's fund transfer appeal
First Security Islami Bank's plan to purchase floor space in Italy for its exchange house has collapsed after the central bank turned
14 October 2017, 18:00 PM
New additional managing director for UCB
Arif Quadri has recently been promoted as additional managing director of United Commercial Bank.
10 October 2017, 18:00 PM
BB instructs banks not to reject foreign cheques or drafts
Bangladesh Bank has asked banks not to send back clients who present foreign cheques and bankers' draft with the view to arranging
9 October 2017, 18:00 PM
PayPal to launch services Oct 19
International online payment gateway PayPal is finally gearing up to launch its services in Bangladesh.
9 October 2017, 18:00 PM
A serial defaulter in BB
At a time when the Bangladesh Bank is struggling to tackle the rising bad loans in the banking sector, it found out that one of its
8 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Banks lack disaster recovery plan: BIBM study
Some 78 percent of banks in Bangladesh do not have a disaster recovery plan in place, putting themselves at risk of those spawning from various calamities, according to a survey.
5 October 2017, 18:00 PM
BB rejects City request to set up subsidiary in HK
Bangladesh Bank has declined to give City Bank the permission to set up a subsidiary company in Hong Kong given the declining imports from the Asian nation.
3 October 2017, 18:00 PM
NBR, IFC team up to facilitate trade
The International Finance Corporation has struck an agreement with the National Board of Revenue to provide technical assistance to the tax administrator in order to help improve Bangladesh's trade competitiveness.
27 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Exim Bank of India to open office in Dhaka
The Exim Bank of India is going to begin operations in Bangladesh from next month to facilitate smooth implementation of projects under India's line of credit.
27 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Jamuna Bank: aiming for the top spot
Five years ago, with forged documents, Bismillah Towels made off with Tk 180 crore from Jamuna Bank -- an incident that instigated wholesale changes in the way the third generation lender functions.
27 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Weak domestic demand to slow GDP growth: ADB
The Asian Development Bank expects Bangladesh's gross domestic product to grow at 6.9 percent in fiscal 2018, down from the preliminary official estimate of 7.2 percent, due to weak domestic demand.
26 September 2017, 18:00 PM
India loosens up some conditions
Exim Bank of India is set to relax one of the major conditions for the projects under the $4.5 billion line of credit extended to Bangladesh for smooth implementation of the projects.
26 September 2017, 18:00 PM
BASIC makes headway in loan recovery
BASIC Bank's new management managed to recover cash amounting to Tk 1,204 crore in the last three years but its overall financial condition continues to remain weak.
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Stemming the rot in public banks
I have written many times in the past about the need to address the governance issues in the state-owned commercial banks (SCBs).
18 September 2017, 18:00 PM
BB elected as vice chair of Alliance for Financial Inclusion
Bangladesh Bank has been elected as the vice-chair of the board of Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) for two years. The election took place in the second annual general meeting of AFI during its ninth Global Policy Forum held on September 12-15.
17 September 2017, 18:00 PM