Bank News
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Moody's sounds alarm on Bangladeshi banks
Global credit ratings giant Moody's put Bangladesh's banking system on 'negative watch' despite the country's robust economy, as pressure mounts...
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Sheikh Hasina’s annual income Tk 77 lakh
The annual income of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina is over Tk 77 lakh, according to her affidavit submitted with...
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Fisheries and Livestock Minister's son-in-law shot
The son-in-law of Fisheries and Livestock Minister Narayan Chandra Chanda sustained bullet injury as some unidentified miscreants attacked his residence...
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Banks issued guidelines to tighten cyber security
In the aftermath of a local bank reporting a loss of Rs2.6 million last month, the State Bank of Pakistan...
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Integration of climate risk assessment tools in dev planning emphasized
Asian Development Bank Country Director Manmohon Parkash addressing a dissemination workshop organized by Programming Division of Planning Commission at Hotel...
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Phase out cards with magnetic strips by Dec
The central bank yesterday instructed banks not to issue any credit or debit card with magnetic strips from next year,...
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British lawmakers launch investigation into bank IT failures
British lawmakers launched an inquiry on Friday into computer systems failures at financial services firms, after a number of outages...
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Regulator relaxes rules of provision for merchant banks
The stockmarket regulator yesterday relaxed the rules of provision for merchant banks' investment in mutual funds.Now, the merchant banks can...
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Higher return fuels sales of savings tools
Sales of savings instruments continued its uptrend in the first quarter of the fiscal year thanks to their higher yield...
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Agent banking expands fast
Agent banking, which takes banking services to the unbanked people, is going from strength to strength, with both deposit collection...
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FIA asks banks to upgrade cyber security system
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has asked banks to upgrade their cyber security wings as per international standards to protect...
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Trade deficit widens at a slower rate
Trade deficit widened slightly in the first quarter of the fiscal year as imports of major goods, including capital machinery,...
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BB has been made weaker, its director says
The central bank's role as the custodian of the production and distribution of money and credit in the economy has...
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Bank Asia brings banking services to apparel workers
Bangladesh's efforts to deepen financial inclusion took a step forward yesterday as Bank Asia launched the country's first-ever complete banking...
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'Almost all' Pakistani banks hacked in security breach: FIA
In a shocking revelation, the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing has said data from "almost all"...
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Brac Bank offers agent banking
Brac Bank has decided to go big with agent banking in a bid to get business by providing financial services...