BB Chief urges Banks to shun aggressive lending The Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir has advised the country’s banks to avoid aggressive lending to prevent accumulation of bad loans in the financial sector. As per the Governor, the banks should avoid aggressive lending, and should concentrate more on loan

3,521 client-complaints against banks in FY17 Clients lodged a total of 3,521 complaints with the Bangladesh Bank against the commercial banks, mainly related to general banking issues, in the last fiscal year of 2016-2017, a report of the central bank revealed on Sunday. The number of complaints, however, dropped by

Farm loans rise by 7.64pc in Q1 Disbursement of farm loans posted a 7.64-per cent growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year of 2016-17 compared with that in the same period of the FY 2015-16.Banks disbursed Tk 3,443.85 crore in farm loans in the July-September period of

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Money Market Parameters Current Period Earlier Period Change Average Call Money Rate 4.50% (Dec 20 ’18) 3.93% (Dec 13 ’18) 0.57% Call Money Lending (Crore BDT) 6,428.38 (Dec 20 ’18) 7,909.40 (Dec 13 ’18) 4.61% Prices Weighted Average Deposit Rate 5.25% (Dec 20 ’18) 5.27% (Dec 13 ’18) 0.02% Weighted