Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman has recently been elected as the chairman of NRB Bank, the bank said in a statement yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country's banking sector is thriving on the strong national economy.

Businessmen demand all scheduled commercial banks to remain open from July 2 to 4 ensuring safe deposit of their money during Eid holiday.

The World Bank has approved $150 million in additional financing to help strengthen Bangladesh's health systems and improve health

The central bank has no plans to realign its reserve money invested in pound sterling even after the currency hit a 31-year low

Bangladesh Bank and all other scheduled banks will remain closed on July 4.

Bank branches will remain open on July 2-3 in industrial areas of Dhaka, Chittagong, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Savar to help factory

Bangladesh Bank is continuing to purchase US dollars from commercial banks to keep the exchange rate stable.

The board of directors of Eastern Bank has extended the service contract of its CEO Ali Reza Iftekhar till August 2019.

A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced a former bank official to six years in jail for two separate cases filed by the Anti Corruption Commission over misappropriating about Tk 9 lakh of depositors' money.

The central bank has increased the limit of the low-cost Export Development Fund for apparel exporters to $20 million from existing $15 million.

Manufacturers are rushing to take low-cost long-term foreign currency loans from the special World Bank-Bangladesh Bank fund,

Bangladesh Bank has asked all banks to maintain a high-level of security at all ATM booths ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr, a senior official said yesterday.

South Asia closed 43 deals in 2015 for a combined total of $5.6 billion, a decline of 82 percent from the five-year average of $30.5

Troubled ICB Islamic Bank has no plan to merge or sell on the majority shares owned by Malaysian entrepreneurs despite the bank's struggle to improve its financial indicators since current owners took over in 2008, a top official said.

Hours before the Federal Reserve Bank of New York approved four fraudulent requests to send $81 million from a Bangladesh Bank account to cyber thieves, the Fed branch blocked those same requests because they lacked information required to transfer money, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The chief executive of secure messaging system SWIFT says the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank, by criminals sending fraudulent payment instructions via SWIFT, would force the organisation to shrink and review its strategy.

Standard Chartered launches a new credit card in Bangladesh which will provide customers a host of attractive benefits including savings and cash-backs.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has been unveiling Tk 340,605 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2016-17 – what is around 29 percent bigger from the current fiscal year.

A US congressional committee launches a probe into the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's handling of the cyber theft of $81 million from one of its accounts held by the central bank of Bangladesh, according to a letter seen by Reuters.