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  Banks can show operating cost of street children’s accounts as CSR spending

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:17pm on August 08, 2017

  Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday said the commercial banks would be allowed to bear the operating cost of the accounts owned by street children and child...

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  BIDA chief says Bangladesh to ‘adopt’ good practices of S’pore

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:14pm on August 08, 2017

  Bangladesh government agencies will try to adopt best practices of Singapore with a view to improve in ease of doing business index and to attain...

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  Banks disburse Tk 7,489cr farm loans thru high charging NGOs in FY17

  AKM Zamir Uddin | Updated at 11:13pm on August 08, 2017

  Country’s commercial banks in last fiscal year disbursed Tk 7,489.52 crore in farm loans through their linked non-governmental organisations which charged an interest rate ranging from...

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  Bankers facing corruption charges not to be selected for promotion

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:51pm on August 06, 2017

  Finance minister AMA Muhith has directed the Financial Institutions Division not to select any bankers facing corruption cases for promotion...

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  No BB heist probe report until PH cases settled: Muhith

  Staff Correspondent . Sylhet | Updated at 10:37pm on August 05, 2017

  Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Saturday said cases pending in the Philippines had delayed making public of the probe report on theft of...

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  Govt plans to set up financial stability council

  Shakhawat Hossain | Updated at 10:33pm on August 05, 2017

  The government is planning to constitute a financial stability council aiming at tackling financial sector shocks like bankruptcy of public and private banks...

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  No BB heist probe report until case in Philippines settled: Muhith

  | Updated at 03:44pm on August 05, 2017

  Finance minister AMA Muhith on Saturday said the investigation report on reserve heist of the Bangladesh Bank is not being made public as a case...

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  Interest rates on lending fall again in June

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:48pm on August 04, 2017

  Interest rates on lending decreased again in June after an increase in May as commercial banks were forced to cut the rates in June against...

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  BB allows banks to charge high rate bowing down to pressure

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:35pm on August 03, 2017

  Bangladesh Bank on Thursday relaxed its guidelines on banks’ credit card operations, allowing the commercial banks to set around 25 per cent interest rate on...

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  Remittance inflow rises by 11 per cent in July

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:36pm on August 01, 2017

  The monthly remittance inflows increased by almost 11 per cent to $1.12 billion in the first month of the current fiscal year 2017-18 compared with...