Friday, March 29, 2024

SCBs lag behind in financing green projects

The state-owned commercial banks and specialised development banks lagged behind other banks in financing green projects in last year, Bangladesh Bank Green Banking Report for 2012 said. The SCBs disbursed only 2.39 per cent and the SDBs only 3.02 per cent of the total loan amounting to Tk 27,092 crore distributed by banks to the

Banks in 4 metropolises to remain open Saturday

All the branches of the scheduled banks in Khulna, Rajshahi, Barisal and Sylhet metropolitan areas will remain open on Saturday, said a Bangladesh Bank press release. The branches in these metropolises will remain open so that people can deposit the security money for contesting in the elections of the four city corporations

Investors dejected by banks’ poor dividends

Listed banks are declaring ‘poor dividend’ for investors for the last year dashing the retail investors’ hope of recovering some losses incurred in the downtrend of the market. Investors at different brokerage houses said most of the banks, which hold the large portion of the capitalisation of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, had records of declarations

BB, Probashi Kallyan Bank in disagreement

Launching of commercial banking BB, Probashi Kallyan Bank in disagreement Bangladesh Bank and the state-run Probashi Kallyan Bank have taken opposite stance on the latter’s proposal to allow it to go for commercial banking in limited scale. The PKB, a bank set up for expatriates’ welfare, has made a proposal that the central bank should ... Read more