Bangladesh Bank (BB) will continue its support to fostering mobile phone banking as part of its drive to attain inclusive growth towards poverty alleviation.

Disbursement of agricultural credit witnessed a rise in the first two months of the current fiscal year as banks channelised Tk 1,549.50 crore to the sector which is up by around Tk 193 crore or 9.60 per cent from the same period of the last financial year.

Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd has recently appointed a legal consultancy firm in the US to help the bank clear its name from the US Senate report on money laundering and terrorist financing, officials of the bank said.

The government has decided to establish Palli Sanchay Bank along the lines of Grameen Bank in its latest bid to emulate the success of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.

The government will seek financial assistance from the World Bank to help the state banks meet a huge capital shortfall that stemmed from years of bad governance.

Meghna Bank Limited started SWIFT operations at its head office at Doreen Tower at Gulshan recently.

Western Union (WU) and Bank Asia signed an agreement on transferring foreign remittance direct to Bank Account (D2B) of beneficiaries at the bank’s corporate office in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Janata Bank Limited has been awarded 'Perform- ance Excellence Award-2013' by the Citibank, NA recently.

Pubali Bank Limited organised an orientation programme for its newly-recruited 273 junior officers (cash) at the Pubali Bank Training Institute in Dhaka recently.

Various irregularities in the years 2010 and 2011 cause this loss