A total of 88 percent of banks in Bangladesh have put in place centralised core banking systems, which are allowing them to avert fraud, cut cost and provide real-time services online to customers, according to a new research.

The finance ministry has forwarded yet another proposal for a new bank to the Bangladesh Bank for its vetting -- at a time when the financial health of the nine fourth generation banks is deteriorating.

Hackers tried to steal 55 million roubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the bank said on Thursday, the latest in a string of attempted cyber heists that use fraudulent wire-transfer requests.

School banking is gradually getting a huge response among students across the country as deposits with the banking accounts

Welltex Group, the top defaulter of BASIC Bank who was allowed to reschedule loans under a special arrangement by the Bangladesh

A three-day workshop on international trade finance for more than 50 Bangladeshi bankers begins in Thailand today.

Bangladesh Bank has frozen Tk 51 crore from ONE Bank's current account with the banking regulator and Tk 25 crore from Premier

Bangladesh Bank removes Farmers Bank Managing Director AKM Shameem as he failed to maintain the rules of the central bank.

Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman has recently been re-elected as chairman of NRB Bank for next three years, said the

The World Bank has approved an additional $245 million to help Bangladesh improve equity, efficiency and

A two-day insurance fair will begin in Sylhet on Friday with a view to raising people's trust in insurers.

Corruption and loan irregularities by board members are pushing yet another financial institution towards the brink

The newly reconstituted board of Farmers Bank has injected Tk 17 crore into the bank to help the trouble-hit lender deal with the

Agrani Bank has kept open a thoroughly loss-making exchange house in Canada for the last one and half years by defying Bangladesh

South Korea’s spy agency said North Korean hackers were behind attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges this year in which some 7.6 billion won ($6.99 million) worth of cryptocurrencies were stolen, a newspaper reports.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday defended the decision to allow opening of new banks, saying the lenders that are not doing well would automatically merge.

The implementation of the proposed Southwest Bangladesh Economic Corridor (SWBEC) will enable the region's economic output to hit

Islami Bank Bangladesh disbursed loans amounting to Tk 315 crore to Unilliance Textiles violating rules, jeopardising the interests of

The Philippines bank through which $81 million stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank was channelled in February 2016 has accused Dhaka’s monetary authority of covering up its negligence and demanded that it stop making the bank a “scapegoat.”

Bangladesh Bank has shot down requests from former Farmers Bank Chairman Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir and Audit Committee