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The agency is controlled by 12 member-governing body which has representatives from the government, Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industries, professional accountants association and academia.
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]
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.
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 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.
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 ...
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]
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 ...