Criticising the World Bank, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said the government’s gross domestic product (GDP) figures, provided by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics,

Mohammad Ismail Hossain, Managing Director (Additional Duty) of Agrani Bank Lilmited,

Iceland on Wednesday announced a quarter-point cut in interest rates to curb the growing strength of its national currency, buoyed by booming tourism, and to stimulate inflation.

Abdus Salam, Chairman and Khairul Alam Chaklader,

The government intends to provide the state-owned banks with another recapitalisaiton fund of Tk2,000 crore in the next fiscal year to meet the capital shortage created by the loan defaults, said a source in the Finance Division recently.

Muhammed Ali has joined the Premier Bank Limited as advisor, the bank said in a press statement yesterday.

Classified loans in the country's banking system jumped by over 18 per cent or Tk 112.37 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of the current calendar year, despite close monitoring by the central bank.

Half of banks officials in Bangladesh are unaware of cyber security, according to a new research.

The country's 37 commercial banks on Monday donated over Tk 136 crore to three benevolent organisations -- the Prime Minister's Education Assistance Trust, Shuchona Foundation and Jatir Janak Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust.

Mati ul Hasan has recently been promoted as the additional managing director of Mercantile Bank, the bank said in a press release.