Bangladesh Bank (BB) and all scheduled banks will remain closed on August 22(Monday) for Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna. A press release of the central bank issued on Thursday said there will be no transaction on Monday.

Senior officials of Sonali Bank Limited here at a monthly business assessment meeting on Thursday directed all concerned officials for quicker digitalisation of all branches under Rangpur division. They were addressing the divisional monthly business meeting of the officials of the divisional, re...

Pubali Bank Training Institute organised an orientation course for newly recruited junior offices (cash) at the bank’s auditorium in the city recently. The course is designed to familiarise the participants with the concepts, principles, rules, regulations, laws and practices of the bank.

Jamuna Bank Foundation distributed clothes among the poor at Goyalghunni in Munshigonj recently. The chairman of Jamuna Bank Foundation Al-haj Nur Mohammed was present at the function as the chief guest, said a press release.

Majority of the banks in Bangladesh have turned to foreign IT firms for software to run their online banking operation. This is because the quality of local software has declined over the years, sources in the central bank said on Thursday. High quality software is essential for providing smooth...

National Credit and Commerce (NCC) Bank Limited, a private commercial bank, has signed the Select Plus Agreement with the world-leading software company Microsoft on Wednesday in Dhaka.

Dhaka Bank Limited has recently signed a participation agreement with Bangladesh Bank to utilise the central bank’s refinance scheme for setting up agro-processing rural industries in the country, according to a press release. Knondker Fazle Rashid, managing director of Dhaka Bank Limited, and Su...

Pubali Bank Limited (PBL) offered a daylong workshop recently to enhance the efficiency of its officers for handling remittance by increased use of technologies. Information Techn- ology Division organised the workshop on 'collection and distribution of foreign remittance and increase of remittan...

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has cautioned commercial banks against harassing people willing to change soiled and torn notes. The department concerned of the central bank is receiving allegations from people that most of the commercial banks are reluctant to change their torn and soiled notes, said a BB...

Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Tuesday said the government disbursed farm loan amounting to Tk 725 crore among the women last fiscal and it has a target to disburse Tk 13,800 crore in the current fiscal. “The central bank has brought qualitative and quantitative changes in farm loan ...