Philippine regulators are reviewing foreign exchange rules to prevent money launderers from using the black market, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reports.

US cyber security firm FireEye, which is charging Bangladesh Bank $400 an hour to probe the $101 million heist, is hunting for a malware that it believes is still hiding in the bank's network.

The new governor of Bangladesh Bank Fazle Kabir starts his first day at work this noon, four days after he was appointed governor of the central bank by the government.

Two engineers of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) starts investigation into their own system in the Bangladesh Bank.

Maia Santos-Deguito is not telling investigators the truth behind the money laundering of US$81 million that has once again put the Philippines on the map of notorious countries.

Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque has said if needed, help would be sought from the international agencies dealing with money laundering, for unveiling the clue to the $101 million cyber heist at Bangladesh Bank.

The meeting between police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation over the cyber heist of Bangladesh Bank’s account deferred to Sunday.

Twenty million pesos believed to be part of the $81million funds stolen from Bangladesh Bank was allegedly loaded onto the vehicle of the branch manager of Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, a witness told a Senate hearing in the Philippines yesterday.

About 10 million bank clients are potentially easy victims of fraudulent charges to their debit and credit accounts because they are using the vulnerable magnetic stripe cards.

An “IT expert”, who talked to different media as a cyber security specialist after the recent heist from Bangladesh Bank account, has been missing since Wednesday night, family claims.

A 20-million peso (US$4.31) lakh cash believed to be part of the $81-million stolen funds from the Bank of Bangladesh was allegedly loaded to the vehicle of Maia Santos-Deguito, the branch manager of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC), a witness tells a Senate hearing.

The Philippines risks becoming the money-laundering capital of the world unless casinos are included in the coverage of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, according to Philippines Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago.

There is a “very low” chance that the government will be able to retrieve the $81 million stolen from the Bangladesh central bank because the money is now likely outside the country, Philippine senator says.

The former Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor must be lauded for taking the moral responsibility for the bank's financial mishap that led to a US$101 million heist from BB account at the New York Fed.

Without detracting from the undeniable fact that as the governor of the BB, the buck stopped with him, it may be fairly said that the 'graceful' exit of Professor Rahman has probably raised more questions than it has resolved.

Confusion and panic was the order of the day at the Bangladesh Bank yesterday, a day after its governor Atiur Rahman stepped down and two deputy governors were removed hastily amid strong criticism over the central bank's handling of the $101 million cyber theft.

A Dhaka court asks police to submit a report on April 19 in a case filed over USD$101 million heist from Bangladesh Bank account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith expresses his dissatisfaction on the overall condition of the Bangladesh Bank and says that reform in the bank is needed.

A businessman of the Philippines implicated RCBC branch manager Maia Santos-Deguito in the alleged scheme to launder US$81 million, saying she confessed she had done something wrong by opening an account in his name and even apologised for it.

The Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. allows the withdrawal of the bulk of the funds suspected to have been stolen by computer hackers from the Bangladeshi central bank despite having received an order from its counterpart banks abroad to stop the payment.