Eight state banks had a capital shortfall of Tk 12,683 crore at the end of June even though they got a handsome amount of fund from the government exchequer.

About 58 percent of the bank branches in the country do not have any policy for transferring funds from one branch to another, according to a research of the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management.

More than 100 employees of the central bank yesterday protested a decision of the Bangladesh Bank board to provide incentive bonus for fiscal 2016-17 based on the pay scale of 2015.

Palli Sanchay Bank has introduced online real-time core banking solutions to provide quick services through the digital platform.

The top 20 defaulters accounted for one-third of the state banks' total default loans in the first half of 2017, according to the finance

Bangladesh is set to take a $59 million loan for the power sector from the World Bank at non-concessional terms for the first time.

The central bank yesterday issued a notice that mandated domestic card transactions with its national payment switch, which is yet to be EMV-compliant and remains vulnerable to fraud.

Japan, a pioneer in mobile “e-wallet” payments in 2004, has, ironically, since become a serious laggard on this front. Less than 20 percent of the payments are cashless, in the country.

Standard Chartered Bank's history in Bangladesh dates back to 1905. For 112 years the bank remained open for business and stood a

Private banks yesterday donated Tk 85 crore to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund for rehabilitation of flood-hit people as part of their corporate social responsibility activities.

Bangladesh Bank has relaxed its loan rescheduling rules and suspended loan recovery for six months for the farmers and small

Corporate executives and businessmen quite often get stupefied with phone calls from banks selling credit cards.

Credit card: two words the mention of which turn many into full-blown cynics.

An updated guideline on credit card operations, resetting of the highest interest rate, provisioning requirement for default loans and the doubling of the credit limit will not only boost expansion of the electronic payment method but also speed up the digital transformation, said industry players.

Bangladesh's economy is driven by a flurry of activity in two of its major cities -- Dhaka and Chittagong -- one the political and administrative capital and the other the commercial capital.

The banking sector's provisioning shortfall went up 18.33 percent in the second quarter of 2017 from a year earlier thanks to high default loans at state banks.

The central bank has cut the banks' cost for loans for credit card usage with a view to encouraging digital transaction in the economy.

Bangladesh has an excess number of banks at present, which has given rise to unhealthy competition, said Ali Reza Iftekhar, managing director of Eastern Bank Limited.

City Bank has recently completed the process of issuing coupon bearing subordinated bonds worth Tk 500 crore in Bangladesh, the bank yesterday said in a statement.

MTB Unit Fund has declared 13 percent cash dividend for the unit holders for fiscal 2016-17. The announcement came at a meeting of the trustee committee of the MTB Unit Fund in Dhaka on Monday.