Lack of morals behind financial irregularities in banks!

Increasing financial irregularities in the banking sector are attributable to the lack of morals, reckon around 73 per cent bankers of the country.

This is revealed at a workshop on "Corporate Ethics and Financial Crime in Banks: Bangladesh Perspective" at the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) auditorium in Dhaka on Thursday, said a press release.

Bangladesh Bank Deputy Governor Abu Hena Mohd. Razee Hasan attended the workshop as the chief guest.

BIBM Director General Dr Towfiq Ahmed Chowdhury presided over the workshop, while BIBM Director Dr Shah M Ahsan Habib presented the research report, reports BSS.

Razee Hasan said the banks should make all possible efforts to keep up depositors' confidence in the banking sector as it is the main stay of the banks.

BIBM has prepared the research report, interviewing 200 bankers across the country.