The government has issued a strong warning to factory owners who have failed to repay the interest-free loans provided to them for clearing workers鈥� arrears, said Labour and Employment adviser M Shakhawat Hossain...
BRAC Bank has launched the country鈥檚 first instant digital financing, Shafollo e-loan, for marginal small and medium enterprises...
Agriculture ministry secretary Mohammad Emdad Ullah Mian at a seminar at the Gazipur Agricultural University on Thursday said that the government would provide Tk 39,000 crore in agricultural loans in current fiscal year...
The Financial Institutions Division in a meeting decided to ask the attorney general office, the ministry of home and the ministry of law to extend more cooperation to expedite the recovery of the defaulted loans...
Prime Bank PLC, a leading financial institution in Bangladesh, has disbursed open agri loans to farmers at Madhukhali upazila of Faridpur as part of its continuous efforts to accelerate the growth and development of Bangladesh鈥檚 agriculture sector...
The Advance-Deposit Ratio of 14 banks remained above the regulatory limit as of June this year due to lenient regulatory approach...
THIS is unfortunate that the Bangladesh Bank needs to show Tk 1,631.5 billion that is, in fact, defaulted loans, as of June, as regular loans and classify 1,086 borrowers, averagely owing Tk 1.5 billion, from being defaulters because of court orders. A central bank report says that such a high number of borrowers have filed writ petitions with the court to secure protection...
Court stay orders has shielded 1,086 borrowers from being classified as defaulters, forcing banks to show Tk聽1.63 lakh crore in unpaid loans as regular, according to a Bangladesh Bank report...
Nearly 39 per cent of rescheduled loans have slipped back into default, exposing the ineffectiveness of repeated rescheduling as a tool for reducing non-performing loans...
A farmer committed suicide by hanging himself in village Kharail under Mohonpur upazila in Rajshahi early Monday reportedly for failing to repay loans he had taken from different non-governmental organisations...
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said that loan defaulters would not be allowed to take part in the national election expected to be held next February...
The Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday increased the agricultural loan disbursement target for the current financial year, 2025鈥�26, to Tk 39,000 crore, up by 2.63 per cent from the past year鈥檚 Tk 38,000 crore target.
The number of loss-making bank branches in Bangladesh has risen sharply, reaching 1,680 in March 2025 鈥� about 15 per cent of total branches 鈥� driven by soaring non-performing loans (NPLs) and unprecedented deposit withdrawals at some banks...
Banks disbursed Tk 37,326 crore in agricultural loans during the 2024-25 financial year, which was slightly lower than the total disbursement target for FY25, according to Bangladesh Bank data...
THE volume of non-performing loans has increased by Tk 745.7 billion in the January鈥揗arch quarter, taking the total to a record high of Tk 4,200 billion and the figure accounts for 24.13 per cent of the total outstanding loans, by far the highest in South Asia. Whilst this has happened, banks which have already identified more than 1,500 wilful defaulters, the borrowers...
The Money Loan Court on Monday ordered the attachment of Exim Bank鈥檚 Gulshan head office building in a case filed by Bank Asia over unpaid loans...
Although banks have already identified more than 1,500 wilful loan defaulters, the Bangladesh Bank remains indecisive over taking disciplinary action against such defaulters, exacerbating the country鈥檚 non-performing loan crisis...
The top 10 defaulters, led by Jaj Bhuiyan Group and Bashundhara Group, accounted for Tk聽8,287 crore in classified loans 鈥� nearly 30 per cent of Agrani Bank鈥檚 total non-performing loans as of December 2024, according to official data...
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter at a press conference in Dhaka on Monday said that in order to free fisherfolk from the vicious cycle of advance payment system by moneylenders, easy loan facilities will be ensured for them...
The delayed rescheduling of bad loans for companies, defaulted due to circumstances beyond their control, has left many without capital, sending them on the brink of collapse...
First Security Islami Bank PLC on Tuesday dismissed its managing director, Syed Waseque Md Ali, over loan irregularities...
Banks rescheduled Tk 7,909 crore in defaulted loans during the January鈥揗arch period of 2025 as Bangladesh Bank continued the previous government鈥檚 lenient rescheduling policy...
The government鈥檚 net borrowing from commercial banks decreased in the 2024鈥�25 financial year compared with the previous fiscal year, driven largely by a surge in foreign loan inflows...
Bank Asia PLC has recently disbursed open loans among marginal customers in Chapainawabganj, said a press release...
The University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh has hosted a discussion on Alex Counts-written book titled Small Loans, Big Dreams at the ULAB in Dhaka recently...
A SIGNIFICANT number of borrowers with proven track records face financial distress as the strict, new loan classification rules and rescheduling policy have classified them as defaulters, limiting their access to capital. This is a cause for concern. More than a thousand borrowers, mostly in export-oriented sectors such as textiles, apparel and leather, keep struggling with...
Many businesses with proven track records in Bangladesh are now facing growing financial distress as a rapid surge in non-performing loans in the banking sector, coupled with stricter loan rescheduling policies, has deepened their woes...
The Bangladesh Bank tightened loan classification and reporting rules to contain defaulted loans...
Deshbandhu Group has received foreign direct investment worth Tk 4,500 crore for restructuring its bank loans from global investment management firm Baker Tilly JFC Group, said a press release...
Seventeen banks reported a staggering provision shortfall of Tk聽1,77,650 crore at the end of March 2025, with six of them facing such deficits for the first time, indicating a sharp deterioration in their financial health amid a mounting crisis of non-performing loans...