There is no bar to wearing hijab while using ATM booths, Bangladesh Bank clarified the matter in a statement on Thursday.

Ananth Narayan, regional head of financial markets in Asean and South Asia for Standard Chartered, is in Dhaka on a three-day visit, the bank said in a statement.

Police claim to have identified a foreigner, an East European, in connection to the ATM forgery from close circuit camera footage of a booth.

The central bank yesterday asked all banks to tighten security, including installing anti-skimming devices at their ATM booths, in a bid to crack down on rising card frauds.

Janata Bank has reached all but one of the performance targets for 2015, including reducing classified loans and making a profit.

The High Court directs the Anti-Corruption Commission and Bangladesh Bank to submit probe reports on BASIC Bank loan scam.

Private-sector credit growth reached 14.19 percent in December 2015, which is 0.69 percentage point higher year-on-year.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday hinted that the tenure of three deputy governors of Bangladesh Bank would be extended.

National Bank Ltd has put up advertisements to sell off the mortgaged properties of SA Oil Refinery that failed to repay the lender about Tk 215 crore.

British bank HSBC said Saturday that its Internet and mobile banking services were fully up and running again after it was hit by a cyber-

The Supreme Court directs Bangladesh Bank to allow Farmers Bank to seek review of the central bank’s order that fined the bank Tk 10 lakh for concealing information.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropic organisation, has in the past given away money, much of it to fight infectious diseases. Now it has a new strategy of investing in technologies that can make goods and services affordable to the poor.

Troubled British bank Barclays is to make a new round of job cuts, axing more than 1,000 positions across its New York, London and

Rubel Brothers and Apollo Multipurpose Agro Industries are loan defaulters of state-owned BASIC and Janata banks respectively and yet had no trouble getting fresh loans from the Farmers Bank.

The government should consider merging weak banks with the strong ones for the betterment of the sector and the economy, analysts said yesterday.

BANGLADESH Bank is committed to establishing good governance practices in banks and financial institutions besides fulfilling its core objectives like employment maximisation and price stability in the country.

After a gap of more than four years, some commercial banks have recently borrowed money from the central bank through repo auction.

Bangladesh Bank is set to form a $200 million fund to provide low-cost loans to textile and leather industries for switching to

As is common in big institutions, ideas of those lower down the hierarchy tend to get lost.

Bangladesh's economic growth will keep up its momentum this fiscal year despite pressure on the budget from a salary hike for