Bank Asia virtually held a daylong “Annual Business Meet 2022” at Bank Asia Tower in Kawran Bazar, Dhaka on Saturday.

Brac Bank has employed 80 graduate candidates under its recruitment initiative “Young Leaders’ Programme” (YLP) as a part of its business expansion plans to recruit 2,000 more people from public and private universities in 2022.

Pubali Bank has been presented a “Top Ten Remittance Award 2022” by the Centre for NRB, a non-profit research organisation for non-resident Bangladeshis, for its contribution in collecting remittance.

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has ordered NRB Bank to take departmental action against its chief financial officer Kamrul Hasan and all of its investment bankers for their involvement in illegal share trading.

Bangladesh Bank has awarded 22 of its officials for their outstanding performance for 2019.

Bangladesh Bank’s efforts to rein in runaway imports through the depreciation of the taka have hardly brought any impacts as the demand for US dollars has kept soaring to feed the economy rebounding from the coronavirus pandemic. 

The Bangladesh Bank should raise the private sector credit target and review other major goals by conducting the mid-term review of the monetary policy statement for 2021-22, said analysts.

Islami Bank Bangladesh has been recognised as the “Strongest Islamic Retail Bank in Bangladesh” in a 7th Islamic Retail Banking Awards by UK-based Cambridge IFA and Islamic Retail Banking Awards.

AB Bank Limited and Grameenphone recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) over providing digital services to each other.

Private sector credit growth in Bangladesh accelerated to 10.68 per cent in December rising for the seventh consecutive month as the economy rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic.

A staggering 7,167 bankers lost jobs between April 2020 and September last year as private commercial banks desperately tried to cut operational costs amid a business slowdown brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

There is good news for about six lakh freelancers in the country as they now will get a 4 per cent incentive against export of software or IT-enabled services.

The Bangladesh Bank plans to bar banks from providing financial services through social media platforms as it poses data security risk, a move that may nip the initiative aimed at popularising digital banking in the bud.

Dhaka Bank Ltd has recently signed an agreement with SF Group over providing payroll banking services.

The Bangladesh Bank has postponed state banks’ recruitment tests scheduled to start from February 1 due to the recent spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Banks and payment service providers have been asked to prepare business continuity plan (BCP) so that their operations remain unhurt during any future economic disasters like the ongoing pandemic.

The Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) and Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB) yesterday requested Bangladesh Bank to extend the deadline for implementing the new rate of entry-level salaries recently fixed by the banking regulator for private banks.

Union Bank is going to debut in the stock market today as the 33rd bank.

Efficiently completing all tasks does not guarantee appreciation from managements as attaining deposit targets is solely prioritised by private banks, which is the case for at least one mid-level official.

A new Bangladesh Bank platform has helped the government settle almost 100 per cent of its payments made to individuals electronically, giving a boost to the country’s financial inclusion efforts.