Parliament passes Bank Resolution (Amendment) Bill
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Banking
Sammilito Islami Bank / 7,896 customers withdraw Tk 327 crore on second day
8 September 2026
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Business
Banks asked to verify certificates of all officers in 7 months
7 September 2026
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Business
EBL’s women leaders shaping the bank’s future
7 September 2026
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Business
Govt eyes 2-3% GDP contribution from creative economy: Khosru
7 September 2026
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Business
President waives penalties on 21 NBR officials over protest
6 September 2026
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Business
Janata Bank holds over half of Tk 147,776cr defaulted loans at 6 state banks: Finance minister
6 September 2026
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Banking
High Court upholds Ahsan H Mansur’s removal as Bangladesh Bank governor
6 September 2026
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Banking
HC orders 3-month freeze on S Alam Group’s 81.92% Islami Bank shares
4 September 2026
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Banking
Bill placed in parliament to abolish provision allowing former owners to reclaim troubled banks
3 September 2026
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Banking
FireEye hired to help probe Bangladesh Bank heist: Sources
FireEye Inc's Mandiant forensics division is helping to investigate a cyber heist at Bangladesh's central bank last month that netted more than $80 million, people familiar with the matter tell Reuters.
11 March 2016
StanChart's landmark bid to claw back bonuses faces legal quagmire
Standard Chartered's landmark attempt to claw back bonuses paid to staff deemed responsible for its current woes could be fraught
25 February 2016
DBBL introduces virtual cards for app developers
Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd has rolled out virtual cards for individual app developers and programmers, solving the difficulties they face when making international transactions online.
24 February 2016
IFC buys 5pc of City Bank
The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, has invested more than Tk 131 crore to hold 5 percent of local City Bank's shares.
24 February 2016
StanChart posts first loss in 26 years as revamp costs bite
Standard Chartered reported its first annual loss since 1989 as hefty restructuring costs and weak commodity prices took their toll on
23 February 2016
New AMD for Standard Bank
Mamun-Ur-Rashid has recently been promoted to additional managing director of Standard Bank, the private commercial bank said in a statement yesterday.
21 February 2016
No bar to hijab while using ATM booths, says BB
There is no bar to wearing hijab while using ATM booths, Bangladesh Bank clarified the matter in a statement on Thursday.
18 February 2016
StanChart's senior official in town
Ananth Narayan, regional head of financial markets in Asean and South Asia for Standard Chartered, is in Dhaka on a three-day visit, the bank said in a statement.
17 February 2016
East European among ATM frauds
Police claim to have identified a foreigner, an East European, in connection to the ATM forgery from close circuit camera footage of a booth.
17 February 2016
BB orders tighter security for ATMs
The central bank yesterday asked all banks to tighten security, including installing anti-skimming devices at their ATM booths, in a bid to crack down on rising card frauds.
14 February 2016
Janata Bank reaches targets for 2015
Janata Bank has reached all but one of the performance targets for 2015, including reducing classified loans and making a profit.
10 February 2016
HC asks for probe reports on BASIC Bank loan scam
The High Court directs the Anti-Corruption Commission and Bangladesh Bank to submit probe reports on BASIC Bank loan scam.
9 February 2016
Credit growth up in Dec
Private-sector credit growth reached 14.19 percent in December 2015, which is 0.69 percentage point higher year-on-year.
7 February 2016
BB's deputy governors may get extension
Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday hinted that the tenure of three deputy governors of Bangladesh Bank would be extended.
1 February 2016
National Bank moves to sell SA Oil Refinery's mortgaged assets
National Bank Ltd has put up advertisements to sell off the mortgaged properties of SA Oil Refinery that failed to repay the lender about Tk 215 crore.
1 February 2016
Britain's HSBC back online after cyber attack
British bank HSBC said Saturday that its Internet and mobile banking services were fully up and running again after it was hit by a cyber-
30 January 2016
Allow review plea of Farmers Bank, SC asks BB
The Supreme Court directs Bangladesh Bank to allow Farmers Bank to seek review of the central bank’s order that fined the bank Tk 10 lakh for concealing information.
28 January 2016
bKash revolutionising banking for poor: Bill Gates
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropic organisation, has in the past given away money, much of it to fight infectious diseases.
Now it has a new strategy of investing in technologies that can make goods and services affordable to the poor.
24 January 2016
Barclays bank to cut 1,000 jobs
Troubled British bank Barclays is to make a new round of job cuts, axing more than 1,000 positions across its New York, London and
21 January 2016
Farmers Bank hits controversy
Rubel Brothers and Apollo Multipurpose Agro Industries are loan defaulters of state-owned BASIC and Janata banks respectively and yet had no trouble getting fresh loans from the Farmers Bank.
18 January 2016