The SWIFT inter-bank messaging network plans to send daily reports to clients to help them more quickly identify unauthorised payment instructions like those used by hackers to steal $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in February.

A Philippine regional trial court has ordered the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to return to the Bangladesh central bank a recovered portion of the $81 million that was stolen from the bank earlier this year, a government lawyer says.

The High Court asked Bangladesh Bank to carry out an inspection of NRB Commercial Bank after allegations of irregularities were

Islami Bank has put itself in good stead for future after it restructured its board with a dozen of new faces with experience and

Daily transactions via mobile phone declined 23.81 percent to Tk 587.99 crore on average in July from the previous month.

The call money market, which usually gets volatile during the Eid festivals due to cash withdrawal pressure, has remained calm this year, indicating lenders have adequate liquidity.

Bangladesh Bank directs all the commercial banks to ensure adequate money in their ATM booths and enough security during the Eid vacation.

The central bank yesterday hosted a tripartite meeting to resolve the land tussle of scam-hit People's Leasing and Financial Services or PLFS, a non-bank financial institution.

Thailand has suffered its first ATM (automatic teller machine) hack, which affected 21 cash machines in Bangkok and other provinces resulting in stolen cash totalling more than Bt12 million, while another 200 ATMs are suspected of having been infected with computer viruses.

Nizam Chowdhury has recently been elected as the chairman of NRB Global Bank.

A team from Bangladesh will meet officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Department of Justice in New York in connection with the cyber theft of $81 million from the South Asian country's central bank in February, sources say.

The Philippines Department of Justice will appeal to a court by August 30 as part of its effort to return $15 million of Bangladesh Bank's

Bangladesh Bank yesterday issued a new notice on foreign exchange regulations for enterprises and developers in planned economic zones as the government seeks to attract more investors.

The World Bank will provide $120 million to Bangladesh to develop infrastructure in the bordering areas, which will upgrade regional

Mahia Juned has recently been promoted to the deputy managing director (DMD) of City Bank.

Officials from the Bangladesh central bank are visiting Manila this week to pressure the authorities in the Philippines to find ways to

Most of the banks' cost-to-income ratio, which is used to measure efficiency and productivity, accelerated in 2015 from a year earlier.

Bangladesh Bank may set the private sector credit growth target at 16.5 percent in the monetary policy for the first half of the fiscal year, in keeping with the present momentum.

A series of spectacular cyber attacks against banks, resulting in the theft of tens of millions of dollars, has heightened fears for an

Fund raised through corruption is used in militancy, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud says.