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Banks asked to submit detailed info on agent banking
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on May 28, 2018
Bangladesh Bank has asked banks to submit verified checklist of documentation for getting approval for agent banking operation and opening new agent banking outlet....
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Agent banking accounts double in a year
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:15am on May 26, 2018
Agent banking accounts have doubled in just one year ending in March this year, with the service now at the doorstep of the rural people....
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Contribute to building non-communal society, president tells youth
United News of Bangladesh . Mymensingh | Updated at 12:09am on May 26, 2018
President Abdul Hamid on Friday urged the young generation to contribute to building a discrimination-free non-communal society by enriching them through practising Nazrul’s works and...
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Each hajj pilgrim allowed to carry $1,000 in cash
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on May 24, 2018
Bangladesh Bank would allow each hajj pilgrim to take $1,000 in cash with him/her for expenses. A BB circular issued Wednesday said that the cash...
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Bangladesh government to issue floating rate bond for deficit financing
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on May 23, 2018
The government has decided to issue floating rate treasury bond to meet its own rising financial need and develop debt profile, said a Bangladesh Bank...
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Rupali, Mercantile banks allowed to float bonds worth Tk 900cr
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on May 22, 2018
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday allowed Mercantile Bank and Rupali Bank to float unsecured subordinated rate bonds worth Tk 900 crore in...
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BASIS demands start-ups get 3 years to submit tax returns
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on May 22, 2018
The Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services at a meeting with finance minister AMA Muhith on Monday proposed that the government should allow a...
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Banks asked to develop biometric verification for illiterate clients
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on May 22, 2018
Bangladesh Bank on Monday instructed all scheduled banks to develop capacity of biometric verification, iris and facial recognition so that illiterate customers could encash their...
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BB raises EDF loan limit for apparel businesses
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on May 22, 2018
Members of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association and the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association would get extended foreign currency loan facility from...
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Bangladesh banks asked to find counterfeit notes before feeding ATMs
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:31pm on May 20, 2018
Bangladesh Bank on Sunday asked all the scheduled banks to check currency notes by counterfeit note detecting machine before feeding money to their automated teller...