Bangladesh Bank (BB) yesterday tightened measures to discourage rice imports with a view to ensuring fair prices for growers.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday instructed non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) not to send text messages through mobile phones to attract deposits.

The third annual meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank wrapped up yesterday with calls from one of its earliest champions, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to scale up its lending tenfold over the next two years.

Banks are sticking to their directors' decision to bring down the lending rates to 9 percent from July 1 amid growing dilemma over how to execute the plan for a large number of loan products.

Md Shirajul Islam Mollah has recently been elected as the chairman of the executive committee of Prime Bank.

Banks have failed to make enough progress on their Brexit preparations and should not expect “miracle” public intervention to help them, the European Union's banking watchdog said on Monday.

Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon yesterday came down heavily on Finance Minister AMA Muhith, saying that the ministry and

Private commercial banks have sought regulatory support to bring down lending rates to single digit from July 1.

IFIC Bank has moved to auction the DuSai Resort & Spa, a high-end hotel located in Moulvibazar for its failure to repay more than Tk 87.56 crore in loans.

The crisis in the banking sector will linger unless the government takes effective measures to tackle the growing trend of financial scams and bad loans, said analysts yesterday.

Default loans at nine new private banks more than trebled to Tk 1,761 crore in the first quarter of 2018 from the same period a year ago mainly because of illicit lending practices, according to Bangladesh Bank data.

Bangladesh is progressively becoming one of the more important countries for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, with the China-led multilateral lender looking to bankroll energy and transport projects in the country.

Norfund, an active strategic minority investor wholly owned and funded by the Norwegian government, will provide a concessional loan of $20 million to Mutual Trust Bank for socio-economic development of Bangladesh.

The owners of private commercial banks have decided to bring down the lending rate at 9 per cent and deposit rate at 6 per cent from next month.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will file six appeals with the Supreme Court challenging the High Court verdict that granted bail to Fazlus Sobhan, former deputy managing director of BASIC Bank, in six loan-scam cases.

Eight state-run banks accounted for more than half of the Tk 88,589 crore default loans in the banking sector at the end of the first quarter of 2018 as their unbridled indiscipline continues to weigh down the entire industry.

Bangladesh Bank has failed to cool down the volatility in the foreign exchange market despite an injection of more than $2.30 billion so far in fiscal 2017-18.

Nothing budges Finance Minister AMA Muhith after yesterday’s spree of attacks as he kept from commenting over the banking sector at parliament today.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) demands stern punishment for the people involved in in misappropriating money from the country's banks.

One Bank has recently witnessed the reelection of its chairman, Sayeed H Chowdhury, vice president, Asoke Das Gupta, and chairman of its executive committee, Zahur Ullah.