Scheduled banks now seem to be in a quandary with excess liquidity buildup following deposit resurgence and weak loan demand amid prolonged economic slowdown, bankers say. Amid various regulatory moves and deposit-mobilising drives by the country's banks, people's trust in the once-shaken&nb

Growing pressure of government's LC opening for imports to feed an expansionary economy prompts the central bank to hold its foreign-exchange-market intervention to keep taka-dollar pricing rates stable. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) started the market intervention on July 13 last year in the wake of a

Bangladesh Krishi  Bank (BKB) and BRAC Bank have climbed into the country's top three remittance-collecting lenders, reflecting intensifying competition among banks as remittance inflows reached a record US$35.56 billion in fiscal year 2025-26. Although Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC saw its shar

Bangladesh Bank has suspended a section of the Bank Company Act for a year only to allow letter of credit (LC) opening in favour of a defaulter company. The BB move has taken many by surprise. Issuing a circular Monday, the central bank instructed the commercial banks to maintain 100-percent cash

Regulatory panacea works little to resuscitate investment and economic expansion as formal private credit growth stays almost stagnant in signs of prolonged slowdown in Bangladesh's private-sector-led economy. To breathe life into the $500-billion-plus economy after months of sluggishness, Banglad

Dhaka Bank PLC aspires to become the country's top bank across all performance indicators within the next three years by bringing back its past glory riding on digital transformation. To achieve the prime objective, the second-generation private commercial bank, which commenced its operation on Ju

Government's bank-borrowing debt deepens as the borrowed aggregate sum ballooned over the revised higher target to Tk 1.32 trillion even before the just-past financial year's end. To meet budgetary shortfall, the government had initially set a bank-borrowing target of Tk 1.04 trillion for the fisc

Bangladesh Bank continues its contractionary monetary-policy stance with the existing elevated policy rate unchanged to curb inflationary burden though some of its recent decisions raised questions over regulatory tightfistedness. The central bank's governor, Md. Mostaqur Rahman, Tuesday unv