Southeast Bank’s sponsor gifts 1.3 lakh shares to son
20 August 2026
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Business
BB rolls out rules to enlist mediators for resolving loan defaults
20 August 2026
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Business
IFC commits $30.7 million loan to Popular Pharmaceuticals for API imports
19 August 2026
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Business
BFIU directs banks to disclose linked accounts after freeze
19 August 2026
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Business
NCC Bank gets nod for 20 Islamic branches
19 August 2026
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Business
Borrowers of NBFIs must withdraw lawsuits to get policy support
17 August 2026
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Business
BB sets 54% higher agri and rural credit target
17 August 2026
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Business
City Bank to raise authorised capital to Tk 3,000 crore
17 August 2026
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Banks
Cashless push faces infrastructure, trust barriers: BB
13 August 2026
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Banks
Bangladesh Bank cancels contract of chief economist
12 August 2026
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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