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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.
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 ...
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
To protect the banking sector, the employees, and customers of the firm, it was changed into a bank by Bangladesh Bank. [2] Bangladesh Commerce Bank Limited was incorporated on 1 June 1998. [2] S Alam Group is an investor in the bank. [3] In August 2004, Bangladesh Bank placed in a watchlist of "problem banks". [4] The bank donated to Prime ...
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.
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 in 2008 in collusion with some bank officials. Khalilur, got a Tk 203 crore work order for ...
In June, the Bank had 19.54 billion BDT in bad loans accounting for 9.63 per cent of all loans of the bank. [20] In November, Bangladesh Bank appointed Md Shazzad Hossoin, an official of Bangladesh Bank, to one bank as an observer. [20] One Bank reduced their CEO pay following decline in profit in 2021. [21]
As of October 2007, the Bank had a staff of more than 24,703 employees; its 2,468 branches provided services to 80,257 villages, [31] up from the 43,681 villages covered in 2003. [45] By the end of 2021, the bank's coverage expanded to 81,678 villages out of the country's total 87,223, for a national coverage rate of around 94%. [8]