Author: Takie Mohammad Jubayer

Food prices are rising not because of hoarding or syndicates, but due to higher production costs, weather-related disruptions and deep-rooted…

With one of the largest agent banking networks in the country, Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC has turned agent banking into…

Agent banking in Bangladesh has reached a turning point. What began as a means of bringing banking services closer to…

In many parts of Bangladesh, the first meaningful contact people have with a bank is no longer a branch, a…

According to Mosleh Uddin Ahmed, managing director of Shahjalal Islami Bank PLC, agent banking has become one of the most…

For Eastern Bank, agent banking was not launched as a tactical outreach experiment. According to Managing Director Ali Reza Iftekhar,…

When banks talk about agent banking, the conversation often starts with scale. At Midland Bank PLC, it starts with access.…

Sonali Bank’s agent banking programme shows how a state-owned lender is expanding access while keeping risks under control. Through around…

Official tender documents submitted for an Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded water supply project in Khulna were falsified and later confirmed…

Bangladesh Bank’s decision to extend special policy support to the wilful defaulter-listed Krishibid Group—despite explicit prohibitions in its own regulations—has…