Southeast Bank’s sponsor gifts 1.3 lakh shares to son
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20 August 2026 Business
BB rolls out rules to enlist mediators for resolving loan defaults
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20 August 2026 Business
BFIU directs banks to disclose linked accounts after freeze
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19 August 2026 Business
NCC Bank gets nod for 20 Islamic branches
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19 August 2026 Business
Borrowers of NBFIs must withdraw lawsuits to get policy support
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17 August 2026 Business
BB sets 54% higher agri and rural credit target
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17 August 2026 Business
City Bank to raise authorised capital to Tk 3,000 crore
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17 August 2026 Banks
Cashless push faces infrastructure, trust barriers: BB
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13 August 2026 Banks
Bangladesh Bank cancels contract of chief economist
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12 August 2026 Business

Mastercard, ShareTrip and Eastern Bank launch travel credit card

Mastercard, Eastern Bank and ShareTrip jointly launched the country’s first-ever co-branded travel credit card “SkyTrip” yesterday.
9 March 2023

Forex reserves fall to $31.15 billion

Bangladesh Bank cleared $1.05 billion ACU payment on March 6
9 March 2023

Bank Asia celebrates ‘Financial Literacy Day’

Bank Asia for the first time celebrated a “Financial Literacy Day” on Monday arranging different activities to raise customers’ awareness and impart knowledge on financial matters and services. 
8 March 2023

Mercantile Bank, ITFC sign deal

Mercantile Bank and International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) recently signed a master murabaha agreement facilitating cross-border trade of small and medium enterprise (SME). 
8 March 2023

Brac Bank to recruit 500 female sales officials to serve women entrepreneurs

Brac Bank has set this unique example on the eve of International Women's Day by appointing an all-women sales team.
8 March 2023

Sick industries to get loans at banks’ cost of fund

Sick industries have to apply to respective banks by June 30 to get the benefit
6 March 2023

Emtiaz joins Padma Bank as DMD

Mohammed Emtiaz Uddin joined Padma Bank from Premier Bank as deputy managing director recently.
5 March 2023

DBS Bank opens Dhaka office

DBS Bank has inaugurated its Dhaka representative office, making Bangladesh its 19th market globally.
2 March 2023

Shimanto Bank gets new chairman

Shimanto Bank has recently elected Major General AKM Nazmul Hasan as its chairman.
2 March 2023

Taka slips further as BB sells USD at Tk 102

The taka has weakened further against the US dollar as the Bangladesh Bank is selling the American greenback to banks at Tk 102.
2 March 2023

No limit on loans for power producers’ fuel purchase

Bangladesh Bank yesterday allowed banks to keep private sector power producers out of the purview of the single borrower exposure limit when giving them loans for the import of raw materials, including fuel oil. 
2 March 2023

SBAC Bank doubles authorised capital

South Bangla Agriculture & Commerce Bank Limited has decided to double its authorised capital.   
1 March 2023

Banks hike dollar rate for exporters

Banks yesterday hiked the rate to purchase US dollars from exporters by Tk 1 to Tk 104 as part of efforts to set a uniform exchange rate in Bangladesh by June replacing the ongoing multiple exchange rates.
1 March 2023

Sonali Bank takes PLC suffix

Sonali Bank Limited shareholders have approved adopting a new name, Sonali Bank PLC, in an extraordinary general meeting held at the bank’s head office in Dhaka yesterday.
28 February 2023

Islami Bank receives security standard certification

Islami Bank Bangladesh has received a PCI DSS version 3.2.1 certification for “ensuring a strong and advanced network, regular monitoring and maintenance for customers’ data protection”. 
23 February 2023

Banks get nod to complete procedures to add PLC suffix

The central bank has given permission to banks to complete legal procedures to change their name by adding PLC as a suffix.
22 February 2023

Declaration not needed for up to $20,000 remittance

The central bank yesterday said remitters would not have to make any declaration to send remittances up to $20,000.   
22 February 2023

Banking diploma mandatory for NBFI officials too

Bangladesh Bank yesterday made having a banking diploma mandatory for the promotion of officials of non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) to the post of senior officers and above.
22 February 2023

Banks get nod to complete procedures to add PLC suffix

A PLC is a public company and is the equivalent of a US publicly traded company that carries the Inc. or corporation designation
22 February 2023

Premier Bank gets two new AMDs

Premier Bank has recently promoted two deputy managing directors to the post of additional managing directors. 
21 February 2023