The state-owned Janata Bank Limited organised a review meeting on classified loan at north divisional office of the bank in Dhaka recently.

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund acknowledged on Monday it faced "serious challenges" in designing bailout programs for troubled euro zone countries mainly because it was restricted by the rules of the 17-member currency zone.

The country's interest matters more than that of an individual, former caretaker government adviser Akbar Ali Khan said yesterday.

HSBC, MRDI, and Green World Communication Ltd will work together using corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds for an alternative social development support to address poverty, MRDI said in a statement yesterday.

The central bank has introduced a refinance loan scheme worth $50 million to encourage environment-friendly and automatic brick kilns in the country.

Stocks returned to the black yesterday riding on investor optimism fuelled with renewed possibility of World Bank's loan revival for the Padma bridge. DGEN, the benchmark General Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, finished the day at 4,632.10 points, after surging 53.20 points or 1.89 percent.

BRAC Bank Monday launched Internet Banking service that can be custom tailored for its corporate clients to enable them to effect wide array of transactions just by a click over Internet that will speed up business operations.

The central bank is collecting information on inland bill purchase (IBP) to find out the link of the bills with the Hallmark scam that involved the Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch of Sonali Bank Ltd, officials said Monday.

Stocks edged lower Monday as late profit taking selling pressure cut early sharp gains.

KS Tabrez, Managing Director of Dutch-Bangla Bank, seen with the cleft-lipped girls and boys at a plastic surgery camp of DBBL at South View Hospital at Mirpur Sunday.