Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd on Saturday arranged a two-day orientation programme for its 96 newly appointed probationary officers at the bank’s head office in the city. Engr. Mustafa Anwar, acting chairman of the bank, attended the function as chief guest, said a press release.

As there is a move to ascertain the status of the Grameen Bank as a non-government organization (NGO), some eminent economists and former governors of Bangladesh Bank (BB) have come up with the conclusion that the move is a mere propaganda only to mislead people. It is evident in some media repor...

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited(IBBL) organised a two day long orientation programme for 96 newly appointed Probationary Officers on the occasion of their joining the office on March 12, 2011, Saturday at Mohammad Younus Auditorium of Islami Bank Tower.

Standard Chartered Saadiq’s leadership position in Islamic Banking was celebrated at the Euromoney Islamic Finance Awards ceremony recently. The Bank was presented with three distinguished awards - “Best Islamic Project Finance House”, “Most Improved in Asia” and Afaq Khan, CEO, Standard Chartere...

Senior bank- ers here yesterday said that Bangladesh Bank (BB) has taken special steps for easing the process of disbursing SME loans as per directions of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to boost the country’ economy. Sixty banks and non-banking financial intuitions have been assisting the SME entre...

Mohammed Haider Ali Miah has recently been promoted as the additional managing director (AMD) of the Export Import Bank of Bangladesh Ltd (EXIM), said a statement. Prior to this promotion, he was the deputy managing director of the bank and performed his duty as head of various departments such a...

Trust Bank Ltd recently signed an agreement with Teletalk Bangladesh Ltd to enable a mobile banking service titled ‘My Bank at My Mobile’. By introducing the service, Trust Bank wishes to spread its banking services and bring the underprivileged and excluded population under the banking network, ...

The 969th branch of Bangladesh Krishi Bank was opened at Tajpur Bazar in Sylhet on Thursday. Finance Minister Abul Mall Abdul Muhith inaugurated the branch as chief guest.

The World Bank is supporting Bangladesh in developing the proposed Northern Areas Reduc-tion-of-Poverty Initiative (NARI) project that aims to economically empower poor and vulnerable women from monga-prone areas of northwestern region.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) and Bangladesh Finance and Investment Co Ltd (BD Finance) signed an agreement on re-financing the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector. Under the agreement, the central bank will finance Bd Finance from the ADB Fund for providing loans to SME projects.