The government is preparing a list of all the top loan defaulters in the individual and organisational categories, Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali today told parliament

Distressed Islami Bank has approved a Tk 700 crore loan to a concern of AnonTex Group, one of the five large borrowers of Janata Bank that has been enjoying undue facilities despite making negligible repayment in 13 years.

The Bangladesh Bank’s policy that allows defaulters longer repayment tenures and easy terms and access to fresh funds has appeared to have failed to make major inroad in bringing down bad debts as rescheduled loans are even turning sour. 

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today told the parliament that as of March this year, the amount of defaulted loans in the country was Tk 126,369 crore.

The High Court (HC) has ordered Bangladesh Bank to form a nine-member committee with experts of the banking sector to find out loopholes in lending and recovery of loans.

In a reversal of its stance, Bangladesh Bank yesterday paved the way for 11 large business groups to reschedule their loans even though they restructured their loans four years ago on condition of regular repayments.

Borrowing large amounts from banks, some people set up industries in the country with a portion and launder the rest to other countries, the High Court observed yesterday, adding that those people consider the countries to be their second home.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, the influen-tial physicist Albert Einstein once said. And this quote comes to mind when one glances through the Bangladesh Bank’s latest policy for defaulters. Issued on May 16, the notice is an extended

Bangladesh's banking sector faces a number of major challenges including rising nonperforming loans, credit concentrations, poor

As of December last year, there were 2,66,118 loan defaulters in the country, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal informed parliament yesterday.

The government will consider unmasking bank loan defaulters through the media, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday in

It was a time when politics played havoc with the economy.