Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman on Tuesday said that the central bank would take initiative to ensure transparency, good governance and accountability in the banking sector in the next five years. The central bank would implement the initiative using the latest technology, he said at a press conference at the BB headquarters in the capital. Atiur presented the central bank activities in the last five years between 2009 and 2014 at the briefing saying the BB would take initiative to set up a leadership excellence centre at Chittagong to train the senior officials of the banking sector.
The central bank would also train up the chairmen and managing directors of the scheduled banks and non-bank financial institutions so that they could accumulate good notion about the financial sector, he said.
The BB would speed up its supervision related programmes in the coming years in a bid to ensure the country’s financial stability, he said.
He said that the central bank had taken a number of initiatives to digitize the central bank as part of the government’s digitalisation programme.
BB deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury said that the central bank had already taken steps to prepare a combined manpower recruitment policy for both state-owned and private commercial banks.
The BB has started discussion with the government in this regard, he said.
BB executive officer Md Ahsan Ullah said that the central bank would give more attention to prepare a balanced and combined monetary policy in the coming months.
The central bank would organise a conference at the BRAC CDM center at Savar between September 4 and September 6 to prepare its strategic plan for the next five years.
-With New Age input
