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  Banks asked to keep minimal margin against onion import

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 04:03pm on September 17, 2020

  The Bangladesh Bank on Thursday asked all the scheduled banks to keep charges against the letter of credits for the import of onion at a...

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  Hard-core poor’s bank deposits drop

  HM Murtuza | Updated at 10:36pm on September 13, 2020

  Deposits in the hard-core poor’s bank accounts dropped by 23.49 per cent in the April-June period this year, when the coronavirus outbreak-induced economic shock was...

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  BB, MTB sign deal on 200m-euro for green fund

  | Updated at 10:49pm on September 12, 2020

  Mutual Trust Bank has recently signed a participating agreement with the Bangladesh Bank for a Green Transformation Fund of 200 million euros, said a press...

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  Green financing target miss to affect CAMELS ratings: BB

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:29pm on September 09, 2020

  Failure of the country’s banks and non-bank financial institutions to achieve green financing targets would affect their capital adequacy, asset quality, management, earnings, liquidity and...

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  Banks’ CSR spending doubles in Jan-June

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:24pm on September 09, 2020

  Corporate social responsibility spending by the country’s banks doubled in the January-June period of 2020 compared with that in the same period of 2019 but...

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  Banks cautious to tackle cyber attack, curtail ATM transactions

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:45pm on September 08, 2020

  Several banks have opted for limiting operations of their automated teller machines for six to eight hours at night following an alert issued by the...

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  Limited ATM Booth operation may continue

  United News of Bangladesh. Dhaka | Updated at 05:07pm on September 08, 2020

  Most of the banks are keeping their Automated Teller Machine booth operations suspended for 6 to 8 hours at night in response to an alert...

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  Overseas pension earnings not investable in wage-earner bond: BB

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:20pm on September 07, 2020

  The Bangladesh Bank on Monday clarified the illegibility criteria for the purchase of wage-earner development bond which barred purchase of the bond with pension earnings...

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  Integrated supervision of banks’ affairs takes effect at BB

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:15pm on September 07, 2020

  The Bangladesh Bank on Monday issued a master circular on submission of data by the scheduled banks to the central bank’s integrated supervision system. The...

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  Bangladesh Bank widens scope of online banking

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:24pm on September 06, 2020

  The Bangladesh Bank on Sunday raised the interbank daily online transaction limit, including a five-fold increase in the limit for institutional users, amid a growing...