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Ansar-VDP Unnayan Bank is a specialized government owned bank in Bangladesh. [1] The bank was founded to provide financial services to the paramilitary Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party. [2] [3] Major General AKM Nazmul Hasan is the chairman of this bank. [4] The bank has 259 branches across the country under 18 regions. [5]
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 ...
In February 2005, the chairman of the bank, Abu Zafar Chowdhury, defended the bank from Bangladesh Bank which questioned the use of bank in the name of Dhaka Mercantile Co-Operative Bank Limited. [6] On 11 July 2007, Group Captain Abu Zafar Chowdhury was re-elected chairman of Dhaka Mercantile Co-Operative Bank Limited. [7]
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.
The newly independent government immediately designated the Dhaka branch of the State Bank of Pakistan as the central bank and renamed it the Bangladesh Bank. [9] The bank was responsible for regulating currency, controlling credit and monetary policy, and administering exchange control and the official foreign exchange reserves. [9]
On 27 December 2020, Bangladesh Bank removed the Chairperson of the bank, Md. Shah Alam, and also dissolved the working committee of the bank. Following a High Court verdict by justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar, [12] Bangladesh Bank started taking steps to liquidate Jubilee Bank. [13] In June 2021, the government cancelled the registration ...
BASIC Bank Limited was established on 2 August 1988 began operations from 21 January 1989. [3] It was owned by BCC Foundation, which owned 70 percent of the shares, and the government of Bangladesh, which owned the remaining 30 percent of the shares. [3]
The Financial Institutions Division (Bengali: আর্থিক প্রতিষ্ঠান বিভাগ) is a Bangladesh government division under the Ministry of Finance responsible for managing all state owned banks, financial institutions, and stock exchanges. [1] [2] Md. Sheikh Mohammad Salim Ullah is the head of the division. [3]