Finance Minister AMA Muhith said that the government has been continuing talks with the World Bank on financing the Padma Bridge project and it will place a proposal after it gets confirmed that it would not be turned down.

The newly appointed Finance Division Secretary Fazle Kabir was co-opted into the board of the Bangladesh Bank.

About one million Indian bank employees began a two-day strike on Wednesday to protest against reforms that could ease mergers rules and allow more private capital into the sector, hitting banking transactions and some market trading operations.

State Bank of India has so far halted trading in onshore spot foreign exchange markets because of the nation-wide banking strike, three sources at India’s biggest lender told Reuters on Wednesday.

Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) opened a new ATM booth in Barisal City Friday.

The 52nd branch of BASIC Bank Limited was inaugurated at Shyamoly in Dhaka Sunday.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) Sunday specified the titles of bank accounts for collection of donations for construction of Padma Bridge.

Swiss banks hoping to atone for decades of complicity in tax evasion may be left to sweat it out for months as the United States and Germany ponder the right level of punishment.

Banks will remain open on Thursday in Dhaka and other areas where garments factories are concentrated, Bangladesh Bank said in a notice yesterday.

State banks, which were the traditional lenders in the call money market, have now become the biggest borrowers due to growing financing to the government.