Eastern Bank Ltd yesterday launched a limited edition of ten Visa prepaid cards to mark the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup. EBL Managing Director and CEO Ali Reza Iftekhar launched the special prepaid cards during a press briefing at a city hotel, said a press release. Coloured after the ten test...

Finance Minister AMA Muhith Friday defended the appointment of political persons as members of the board of directors of the state-owned commercial banks (SCBs), justifying their necessity in achieving the goals of the government

A four-week foundation training for the newly appointed officers of Sonali Bank Limited was ended at its training institute in Rajshahi on Thursday afternoon. Rajshahi Divisional General Manager of the bank Hassan Iqbal, who attended the closing ceremony as the chief guest, urged upon the traine...

Bangladesh Bank (BB) today started a two day workshop on "Strategic Planning and Management Strengthening Workshop-2011" at Brac CDMA in Savar in order to evaluate the achievement and success of different strategies taken by the central bank last year as well as to take correction and expansion i...

The Asian Development Bank in a major move has urged Bangladesh to upgrade cross-border connectivity to set up regional link as it proposed support to 11 road and railway projects, officials said. Finance ministry officials said the Manila-based multilateral lender has assured the country of prov...

Rupali Bank Limited, a state-owned bank will be turned into one of the best banks in the country in near future as the bank will take a number of initiatives to achieve the goal, chairman of the bank Ahmed Al-Kabir said. Mr Kabir said the bank will launch online services in six months as there is...

Ambassador of Republic of Korea Cho Tae Young said Korea and Bangladesh are in the best position to leverage their relationship, as both the countries share the same history of sufferings under colonial regime as well as fight against poverty. He was speaking as the chief guest of the inauguratio...

State-owned Rupali Bank Ltd arranged a conference for the heads of its corporate branches yesterday. Anamul Haque, general manager of the bank, presided over the conference. The conference discussed on various issues related to banking and gave necessary guidelines to the participants.

Banks will be come under e-procurement system by the next week to ensure transparency in the public purchase process. In this regard, a meeting was held between Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) and 16 banks on Thursday at NEC-I conference room to finalise their incorporati...

Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd arranged a daylong branch managers’ conference for Dhaka region at its head office in the city recently. Jb. Ekramul Hoque, managing director of the bank, presided over the conference, said a press release. Managers from 37 branches of the bank participated in the confer...