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Private sector credit growth is continuing with its ascent, helped in part by the higher import of food grains and capital machinery.

Trouble-hit Farmers Bank has twice failed to honour a cheque worth Tk 35.44 crore presented by Bangladesh Telecommuni-cations Company Ltd, in what can be described as the latest episode in the four-year old bank's spiral towards insolvency.

The non-bank financial institution Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company is on the verge of collapse after it failed

Western Marine Shipyard, the leading shipbuilder of Bangladesh, has decided to invest Tk 500 crore in expansion.

Between 2000 and 2011, Afzal Hossain had to travel more than 300 kilometres to come to Dhaka from Rangpur every month to collect

Banks are witnessing a faster growth in the number of female customer accounts than those of males under the agent banking

Foreign investment in stocks doubled year-on-year in the first 10 months of 2017 as overseas investors continue to show their trust

Most banks have reported moderate earnings in the third quarter of the current year thanks to higher incomes from

Sonali Bank's UK subsidiary (SBUK) is staring at insolvency after the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) restricted

Lafarge Surma Cement has appealed to Bangladesh Bank to review its valuation of Holcim share price, which the French cement maker

Islami Bank's earnings per share (EPS) has been on the decline this year, making thousands of investors concerned

Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) has revised down its lending rate in line with the market, which is helping the

Islami Bank's new management has taken on a spirited approach to lending, with its loan-deposit ratio sitting dangerously close to the

Islami Bank has moved to sell off the mortgaged property of three companies owned by Chittagong-based SA Group to recover default loans of Tk 573.74 crore.

The central bank has fined seven banks for violating stockmarket rules by way of miss-reporting on share investment and over-

Five years ago, with forged documents, Bismillah Towels made off with Tk 180 crore from Jamuna Bank -- an incident that instigated wholesale changes in the way the third generation lender functions.

Social Islami Bank is set to invest $2 million in a real estate-focused private equity fund managed by the Islamic

All four state-owned commercial banks failed to recover loans from the top 20 defaulters as per targets set by the

More and more banks are showing interest in converting into full-fledged Islamic banks but the central bank is not giving new licences for the expansion of the shariah-compliant finance.

About 3.3 lakh agent banking accounts were opened in the first half of the year -- an increase of 60.18 percent --