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

Pubali Bank signs deal with SSL

Pubali Bank Ltd and Software Shop Ltd (SSL) signed an agreement for integration of Shohoz online ticketing platform on Pubali PI banking app.
24 August 2023

Islami Bank, Kolkata Apollo sign MoU

Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC and Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals in Kolkata signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Islami Bank Tower in Dhaka on Wednesday enabling discounts on medical services for the bank’s employees, their family members alongside cardholders. 
24 August 2023

Jamuna Bank inks deal with Kolkata hospital

Jamuna Bank Ltd recently signed an agreement with Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals in Kolkata.
23 August 2023

ITFC arranges $40m for Prime Bank

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, has arranged a syndicated murabaha financing facility worth of $40 million for Prime Bank Ltd.
23 August 2023

EBL, Pran sign interest swap deal

The bank will pay Pran at 7%, but Pran will repay at an interbank repo rate
23 August 2023

Mercantile Bank donates agri machinery to farmers

Mercantile Bank Ltd donated agricultural machinery, including power tillers, among farmers at Senbag Upazila Agriculture Office in Noakhali yesterday.
22 August 2023

SIBL launches tuition fee payment service

Social Islami Bank Ltd (SIBL) launched an instant tuition fees payment service styled “edupay” at the bank’s head office in Dhaka on Monday.
22 August 2023

Southeast Bank holds training programme

Southeast Bank Training Institute organised a daylong training programme, styled “Product Knowledge of Retail Loans, Assessment Tools, and Marketing Techniques”, at its office in Dhaka on Monday.
22 August 2023

StanChart, Kumudini Welfare to train nurses

Standard Chartered Bangladesh has partnered with Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bengal (BD) to train and provide employment opportunities for the next generation of nurses of the country.
22 August 2023

Bank Asia, BB award certificates to SME entrepreneurs

Bank Asia Limited in association with Bangladesh Bank have organised a certificate awarding ceremony in Cox’s Bazar recently to award 26 SME entrepreneurs, who took part in a monthlong training programme.
22 August 2023

Padma Bank gets over 2yrs to clear fine of Tk 55cr

Padma Bank, formerly known as Farmers Bank, is going to get over two years, until April 2028, to clear a Tk 55 crore penalty for its failure to maintain the regulator-stipulated cash reserve ratio (CRR) from 2017 to 2019. 
22 August 2023

BB allows Nagad to surrender NBFI licence

Nagad wants to establish a digital bank
22 August 2023

LankaBangla Finance becomes LankaBangla Finance PLC

Companies are switching to the PLC (Public Limited Company) suffix in order to comply with the amended Company Act 1994
22 August 2023

S&P downgrades multiple US banks

Funding risks and weaker profitability will likely test the sector's credit strength
22 August 2023

Should existing banks get digital bank licence?

Bangladesh Bank received 52 applications for the digital bank licence, with the majority of the forms coming in from the existing 62 banks -- when their current licence allows them to offer the same service already.
20 August 2023

Genex Infosys, Navana Pharma, Aramit to invest in UPAY Digital Bank

Genex Infosys Ltd, Navana Pharmaceuticals Ltd and Aramit Ltd have decided to invest in the proposed digital bank named UPAY Digital Bank PLC.
20 August 2023

52 digital bank licences sought

Fifty-two applications have been filed by companies such as banks, fintec firms and mobile financial service providers to roll out digital banks, Bangladesh Bank Spokesperson Md Mezbaul Haque confirmed today.
20 August 2023

Bar on Ron Haque to attend National Bank’s meetings

The bank did not take prior approval for re-electing Ron as a director
19 August 2023

Pathao wants to establish Pathao Digital Bank

The ride-sharing company will utilise its own fund
19 August 2023

Dhaka Bank to invest in digital bank

Hopping on the bandwagon with other conventional lenders that will establish digital banks, Dhaka Bank yesterday said it would invest Tk 12.5 crore to become a sponsor shareholder of a proposed digital bank.
17 August 2023