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  Proposed budget long on hopes but short on measures

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:27am on June 21, 2017

  The World Bank on Tuesday said that the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year was full of ambitious targets, but devoid of specific actions...

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  2 lakh loan defaulters

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:09am on June 21, 2017

  Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Tuesday told parliament that the number of loan defaulters in the country was now 2,02,623....

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  2.02 lakh loan defaulters

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 05:06pm on June 20, 2017

  Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Tuesday told parliament that the total number of loan defaulters now stands at...

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  Discussion underway to reduce excise duty, VAT: Muhith

  United News of Bangladesh | Updated at 01:38pm on June 20, 2017

  Finance minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday said they were discussing to reduce the amount of excise duty on bank deposits and the...

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  Bangladesh yet to get back $66.37m of stolen BB reserve

  United News of Bangladesh | Updated at 01:29pm on June 20, 2017

  Bangladesh did not get back USD 66.37 million of the stolen money of USD 101 million from Bangladesh Bank reserve till now...

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  Banks urge BB to allow 25pc interest on credit card loans

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:23pm on June 19, 2017

  Commercial banks on Monday requested Bangladesh Bank to allow them to set around 25 per cent interest rate on loans disbursed through credit cards, revising...

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  Performance deals with SOBs turn into eyewash: economists

  Shakahwat Hossain | Updated at 11:07pm on June 19, 2017

  Annual performance agreements introduced three years ago by the government has failed to improve the performance of the state-owned banks....

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  BB disburses Tk 5,831.39cr thru 7 refinance schemes

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:03pm on June 17, 2017

  Bangladesh Bank has disbursed loans amounting to Tk 5,831.39 crore as of April 30 from its seven refinance schemes for the country’s disadvantaged entrepreneurs, which has...

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  Most clients out of internet, mobile banking services

  AKM Zamir Uddin | Updated at 11:16pm on June 16, 2017

  A large majority of bank clients are yet to get the internet and SMS (short messaging service) or mobile banking services as the country’s banks...

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  India govt approves anti-dumping duty on B’desh hydrogen peroxide

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:23pm on June 15, 2017

  India’s government has approved imposition of anti-dumping duty of up to $118 per tonne on import of hydrogen peroxide from Bangladesh and four other countries,...