Banking

Bangladesh Bank has issued new guidelines for Islamic credit card operations, prohibiting interest-based charges and requiring banks to channel money collected for late payments to charity rather than recognising it […]

Standard Chartered Bangladesh has received two major honours at the ESGBusiness Awards 2026 in recognition of its initiatives in health equity, social inclusion and job creation. The bank won the […]

Bangladesh Bank has identified 22 online platforms as illegal for allegedly providing payment aggregator services without approval from the central bank and advised the public not to conduct transactions through […]

Bangladesh Bank has taken an initiative to provide financial incentives to encourage wider use of Bangla QR code-based transactions, particularly among small and marginal merchants and service providers. Under the […]

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $100 million concessional loan to expand access to affordable and climate-resilient housing finance for low- and middle-income households in Bangladesh, with a […]

Dutch-Bangla Bank PLC has signed participation agreements with Bangladesh Bank to access low-cost credit facilities for its clients under two refinance schemes of the central bank. AKM Nurunnabi, director of […]

The Bangladesh Bank board has given preliminary approval to establish four new digital banks in the country, while also deciding to issue a Letter of Intent (LoI) to Kori Digital […]

 Bangladesh Bank has found widespread irregularities at state-owned Janata Bank, including failures to identify long-dormant deposits, delays in creating demand loans, questionable transactions and weak oversight by the bank’s board […]

The Bangladesh Bank has instructed all relevant bank branches to remain open this Friday and Saturday to facilitate the collection of registration payments for the 2027 Hajj. Banks have also […]

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to keep its key policy interest rate unchanged as the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) opted to assess the impact of domestic and global […]