Sept remittance hits 84-month low The inflow of remittance in September this year registered US$853.73 million, which was lowest in seven years. It was around $838 million in September 2010, according to the central bank figures. The remittance fell by $564.85 million or more than 39 per cent from the

Bangladesh Bank wants list of goodies among bank borrowers The central bank has sought information about good borrowers from all the commercial banks, as the goodies would enjoy financial incentives. “We’ll issue an instruction for furnishing the information (in prescribed form) to know about the number of good borrowers, amount

Farmers Bank continues to worry BB Bangladesh Bank has asked Farmers Bank to explain why it continues to disburse fresh loans despite having a bar on lending since January. Earlier in January, the central bank slapped some restrictions on fresh loan disbursement and opening of new branches, with a view

Bank stocks drop for higher provisioning requirement Most banking stocks dropped yesterday, fuelled by apprehensions of a reduction of profits of lenders centring a Bangladesh Bank decision directing them to keep aside extra provisioning. However, the DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rose 20.59 points, or

Loan recovery falters in first Quarter Banks’ loan recovery in the first quarter of 2019 was 9.68 percent higher than a year earlier, but given the extraordinary rate at which default loans are increasing it seems below par. Between January and March, Banks recovered Tk 2,448 crore bad loans, according