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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 ...
On 7 April 1972, after the Bangladesh Liberation War and the eventual independence of Bangladesh, the Government of Bangladesh passed the Bangladesh Bank Order, (P.O. No. 127 of 1972), reorganising the Dhaka branch of the State Bank of Pakistan as Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank and apex regulatory body for the country's monetary and financial system.
Offshore Banking Operation (OBO) was first introduced by Bangladesh Bank in 1985 through a circular for allowing active foreign financing at Export Processing Zones (EPZs). Banks operated the services with Bangladesh Bank approval without any separate law for an offshore banking system until the enactment of the Offshore Banking Act, 2024.
List of governors of the Bangladesh Bank. 1 language. ... 9 August 2024 - Nurun Nahar (Acting) 11 August 2024 13 August 2024 13 Ahsan H. Mansur: 13 August 2024 present
Nahar has served as a Visiting Lecturer at the training institutes of Private Commercial Banks and an Examiner at the Institute of Bankers, Bangladesh. Apart from these, she is a faculty member of Bangladesh Bank Training Academy. On 11 August 2024 Nahar was appointed as the Governor of Bangladesh Bank. [3] [1] [4]
In February 2008, M Shah Alam Sarwar was appointed managing director of Premier Bank. [14] In 2013, Bangladesh Bank launched an investigation into an allegations against Bank's then vice chairman Bazlul Haque Haroon. [15] A client of the bank, Khalilur Rahman, claimed that bank's then vice chairman BH Haroon, stole Tk 134 crore from his account ...
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.
It was established by Vanik Incorporation Limited of Sri Lanka with Bangladesh partners. [8] Sampath Bank and Chinkara Capital (Singapore) Pte Ltd were partners in the venture as well. [8] In September 2007, Bangladesh Bank warned One Bank Limited for hiring a former managing director of the bank as a consultant violating banking rules. [9]