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Bangladesh Bank Building in Motijheel commercial area, Dhaka. Bangladesh Bank (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক) is the central bank of Bangladesh and is a member of the Asian Clearing Union. It is fully owned by the Government of Bangladesh. The bank is active in developing green banking.
Bangladesh Krishi Bank asked for deposits from State owned enterprises. [23] In June 2022, it had the highest capital shortfall in Bangladesh with 128.77 billion taka. [24] It received an appreciation letter for distributing loans from the Bangladesh Bank. [25] The Bank donated 10 million taka to the relief fund of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...
The Bangladesh Bank robbery, also known colloquially as the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, [1] was a theft that took place in February 2016. Thirty-five fraudulent instructions were issued by security hackers via the SWIFT network to illegally transfer close to US$1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account belonging to Bangladesh ...
Major General Aziz Ahmed was the first chairman of the Bank and he was replaced by Major General Abul Hossain on 2 November 2016. [11] In 2020, Shimanto Bank had 12.09 billion taka in deposits. [12] In August 2021, Bangladesh Bank issued a show cause notice to Shimanto Bank PLC and nine other banks for having a low interest rate on their ...
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 December 1971. Other than Bangladesh Bank, banks in Bangladesh are primarily categorized into two types: Scheduled ...
Billion Dollar Heist is a 2023 feature-length documentary that explores the 2016 Bangladesh Bank robbery. The bank robbery is described by multiple film reviewers as "one of the biggest financial crimes in history". [2] [3] The film is slightly dramatized, and compares the hackers to the hackers in Ocean's Eleven. [2]
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 bank also faced manpower shortages in 2020 harming daily operations of the bank. [8] Expatriates' Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad is March 2021 announced plans to establish branches of the bank in every Upazlia in Bangladesh. [9] In August 2021, Probashi Kallyan Bank signed an agreement with NCC Bank to cooperate in remittance disbursement. [10]