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Bangladesh Bank Building in Motijheel commercial area, Dhaka. Bangladesh Bank (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক) is the central bank of Bangladesh and is a member of the Asian Clearing Union. It is fully owned by the Government of Bangladesh. The bank is active in developing green banking.
Offshore Banking Operation (OBO) was first introduced by Bangladesh Bank in 1985 through a circular for allowing active foreign financing at Export Processing Zones (EPZs). Banks operated the services with Bangladesh Bank approval without any separate law for an offshore banking system until the enactment of the Offshore Banking Act, 2024.
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.
Billion Dollar Heist is a 2023 feature-length documentary that explores the 2016 Bangladesh Bank robbery. The bank robbery is described by multiple film reviewers as "one of the biggest financial crimes in history". [2] [3] The film is slightly dramatized, and compares the hackers to the hackers in Ocean's Eleven. [2]
Abu Sayed (Bengali: আবু সাঈদ; 1998/1999 – 16 July 2024) was a Bangladeshi student activist who was shot dead by the Bangladesh Police on 16 July 2024, [119] [120] [121] while participating in the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement.
According to The Economist, "Islami Bank was a pioneer in financing Bangladesh's rise as the apparel industry's main production base outside China." [7] In 2012, United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations mentioned possible ties of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited to terrorism financing through HSBC Bank which the bank denied.
In 2016, the Bangladesh Bank confirmed the unit has been made autonomous. [7] In September 2021, the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit sent letters to banks requesting the bank details of 11 elected journalist leaders from Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, Dhaka Reporters Unity, Dhaka Union of Journalists, and the National Press Club.
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 ...