State-owned, Islamic Shariah-based, and specialised banks have seen deeper deterioration in their financial positions, whereas private commercial banks and foreign banks remain on firmer ground.

Bangladesh’s banking sector faces significant challenges due to longstanding structural weaknesses and recent emerging risks, according to the World Bank (WB).

The Bangladesh Bank will be able to sell or liquidate weak banks by forming bridge banks—financial institutions that temporarily take over a failed bank, according to the draft Bank Resolution Ordinance.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has extended a total of Tk 12,500 crore in emergency funds to three beleaguered banks to dress up their balance sheet ahead of the year’s end. 

In October, a video on social media showed the manager of Social Islami Bank’s Agargaon branch breaking down in tears after enduring harsh verbal abuse from frustrated customers seeking to withdraw cash.

The regime-sponsored immorality to protect or pamper the financial gangsters not only eroded the future of the banking sector, but also made the wound too difficult to recover from.

Banking rules and regulations stipulate a single borrower exposure limit but the banking regulator itself disregarded the rule routinely in the last 16 years.

The adviser made these remarks today during a press conference at the Secretariat in Dhaka

The decline in NOCFPS was primarily due to increased investments in customers and a fall in deposits

Bangladesh’s banking sector was not well-managed in recent years. Banks mostly gave loans to their owners, rather than to creditworthy entities. Consequently, several banks are now in difficulty.

Several banks in Bangladesh are clinically dead but are being kept alive through bailouts, said Fahmida Khatun, executive director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

Unrest has gripped the banking sector at a time when several banks are burdened with huge default loans and are suffering from low asset quality.

Three lawmakers in parliament yesterday blasted the government for the sorry state of the banking and financial sector.

Otherwise, banking sector health will continue to deteriorate

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While the government’s latest monetary policy for the first half of fiscal year 2023-24 shows an attempt to be rational for the market, it lacks vigour to solve inflation and the dollar crisis.

On edge -- is what best describes the sensation surrounding the banking sector. But the Bangladesh Bank higher-ups were warned as early as October 2021 that such a situation might transpire. Yet, no definitive action was taken then.

An unholy nexus of powerful people are protecting those who've stolen thousands of crores.