Standard Chartered reported its first annual loss since 1989 as hefty restructuring costs and weak commodity prices took their toll on

Mamun-Ur-Rashid has recently been promoted to additional managing director of Standard Bank, the private commercial bank said in a statement yesterday.

Four cases are filed over yesterday’s incident when Rapid Action Battalion “foiled a Sonali bank branch robbery attempt” at Dhamrai in Dhaka that left an alleged robber dead.

There is no bar to wearing hijab while using ATM booths, Bangladesh Bank clarified the matter in a statement on Thursday.

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.

Police claim to have identified a foreigner, an East European, in connection to the ATM forgery from close circuit camera footage of a booth.

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.

A Bangladesh Bank official says the central bank is investigating dubious transactions in the Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) ATM booths and action would be taken against him if negligence by anybody is found.

Janata Bank has reached all but one of the performance targets for 2015, including reducing classified loans and making a profit.

The High Court directs the Anti-Corruption Commission and Bangladesh Bank to submit probe reports on BASIC Bank loan scam.

Private-sector credit growth reached 14.19 percent in December 2015, which is 0.69 percentage point higher year-on-year.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday hinted that the tenure of three deputy governors of Bangladesh Bank would be extended.

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.

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-

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.

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.

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

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.

The government should consider merging weak banks with the strong ones for the betterment of the sector and the economy, analysts said yesterday.

The central bank has cut its policy rates for the first time in three years in an effort to spur investment and the GDP growth.