When Taslima Begum, a housewife turned entrepreneur from the north of Bangladesh, accepted the Nobel peace prize in Oslo in December 2006, it was a proud moment for Bangladeshi women. The Nobel citation said the prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create eco...

Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited has opened its 100th branch at Al-Jamia Market at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazaar Tuesday.

Bank Asia Limited celebrated its 13th founding anniversary with its officials at the bank’s Corporate Office in Dhaka recently.

The governor of the United Arab Emirates central bank said Friday it intends to buy the sovereign debt of bailed-out eurozone member Portugal.

First Security Islami Bank Limited (FSIBL) signed a corporate agreement with FAS Finance and Investment Limited for Electronic Funds Transfer Network (EFTN) services recently.

Private Commercial Banks (PCBs) have made the highest contributions to the country’s industrial growth by providing the lions share of loans to the sector in the first quarter of the current fiscal.

SME Foundation has recently agreed to provide Tk 3 crore to Trust Bank to give loans to small and medium entrepreneurs, particularly women, in Jessore and three hill districts at 9 percent interest.

International banking organisation HSBC has extended support for the MRDI's programme for developing Dhangmari, a remote village in the Sundarbans, as a climate model village.

An external panel of the World Bank will start talks with the Anti-Corruption Commission from today to know the progress the anti-graft watchdog made in investigating the evidence of corruption in the Padma bridge project.

Recently, we heard the finance minister saying in parliament that the impact of the Hall-Mark scam is felt by other banks as well. This statement actually defies claims of many who asserted that the scam was an isolated incident having little implications for the banking sector.