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The Institute of Bankers was registered on the 6 February 1973 as an association under the Societies Registration Act, 1660 (Act No. XXI of 1660). [2] Before that some eminent bankers and other professionals decided, in a meeting held on 26 July 1972, to establish the institute as a professional body of banks and financial institutions in Bangladesh.
The chairman of the governing board is the prime minister and members include the governor of Bangladesh Bank, the finance minister and other high-level ministers and elected policymakers. [9] The governing board is responsible for overall policy decisions. [9] The executive board includes bureaucrats from Government of Bangladesh. [8]
The microcredit program in Bangladesh is implemented by NGOs, Grameen Bank, different types of government-owned banks, private commercial banks, and specialized programs of some ministries of the Bangladesh Government, etc. Despite the fact that more than a thousand institutions are operating microcredit programs, only 10 large Microcredit ...
Grameen Bank (Bengali: গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক) is a microfinance, specialized community development bank founded in Bangladesh. [5] [6] It provides small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit") [7] to the impoverished without requiring collateral. Grameen Bank is a statutory public authority.
Bangladesh Bank is the central bank of Bangladesh and the chief regulatory authority in the banking sector. According to the Bangladesh Bank Order, 1972 the Government of Bangladesh reorganized the Dhaka Branch of the State Bank of Pakistan as the central bank of the country and named it Bangladesh Bank with retrospective effect from 16 ...
The unit was founded as the Anti-Money Laundering Department of Bangladesh Bank in June 2002. The name of the department was changed to Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit on 25 January 2012 through the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2012. [5] Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering recommended the government to form the unit. [6]
The Premier Bank PLC. is a private commercial bank with its registered office in Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] H. B. M. Iqbal is the Chairman [ 9 ] Mohammad Abu Jafar has taken up the role of managing director and CEO of Premier Bank with effect from 24 April 2024.
In 2014, Bangladesh Bank rescheduled the payment plan of ICB Islamic Bank to the depositors' of Oriental Bank. [8] By 2018, ICB Islamic Bank had failed to return 4.44 billion taka to the depositors' of Oriental Bank, a condition set by Bangladesh bank, and sought a change in the repayment plan from the central bank. [6]