Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka

The number of users of mobile banking in the country has crossed 1.5-crore mark.
At this moment, clients of Mobile Financial Services have reached 1,50,23,604, as 4 lakh new people joined the service in March, a Bangladesh Bank official told the news agency on Wednesday.
According to BB statistics, the clients’ mobile banking transaction in March was 14 per cent more than February.
According to BB officials, remittance, salary, utility bill payment, merchant payment and other banking are being conducted through mobile banking.
The central bank has given permission to 28 banks to offer the mobile banking services and so far 20 banks have introduced the services.
At present, on an average the daily transaction number is around 8 lakh while transaction amount is around Tk 200 crore.