Rejaul Karim Byron

The balance of payments surplus widened about 58 percent in the first seven months of the fiscal year from a year

Global banking cooperative SWIFT has advised its user-banks in Bangladesh to employ appropriate security measures to eliminate risk exposure to malicious software in the wake of the attack on the central bank's reserves.

The revised development budget for fiscal 2015-16 is likely to be Tk 90,000 crore, which is about 7 percent less than the original outlay.

US Congresswoman Carolyn B Maloney has raised some serious questions about the New York Federal Reserve Bank's actions regarding the $101-million heist from the Bangladesh Bank account.

US cyber security firm FireEye, which is charging Bangladesh Bank $400 an hour to probe the $101 million heist, is hunting for a malware that it believes is still hiding in the bank's network.

Two engineers of SWIFT have come to Bangladesh to review its servers with the central bank -- 38 days after a band of hackers breached the payment system in an attempt to steal about $1 billion.

Confusion and panic was the order of the day at the Bangladesh Bank yesterday, a day after its governor Atiur Rahman stepped down and two deputy governors were removed hastily amid strong criticism over the central bank's handling of the $101 million cyber theft.

Malaysia plans to set up a 1,320-megawatt power plant at Moheshkhali and provide 70 percent of the project cost as loans to Bangladesh.

A forensic team is examining all computers of the Bangladesh Bank to determine how a malware hacked into the payment system of the central bank and stole $101 million.

To stop any further hacking of its network, Bangladesh Bank is installing monitoring software on all its computers that would instantly

The hackers who stole Bangladesh Bank's money were on their way to pull off a heist of about $1 billion, but the banking system responded in time to stop the transfer of $870 million from the central bank's account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

A band of hackers chose the weekend in four countries as the opportune moment to break into Bangladesh Bank's systems to steal its money deposited in an account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

Women-owned economic households increased six-fold in the last one decade as women push to break out from their traditional role as homemakers.

The World Bank has identified five key areas where concerted efforts over the next 3-5 years could lead to creation

Finance Minister AMA Muhith is set to kick off his dialogue series with think-tanks, trade bodies, lawmakers and media on the forthcoming budget, tipped to be about Tk 340,000 crore -- about 15 percent higher than the current year's.

The Banking Division has directed the Agrani Bank board to open a functional audit to find out whether irregularities were committed in granting loans to four companies.

Term loans to large companies dropped in the first quarter of the fiscal year, while disbursement of credit among small and medium enterprises soared.

The facilities extended to foreign investors are set to be increased in the new industrial policy in yet another bid to

The central bank is set to strictly monitor whether the banks are giving rewards to their good borrowers as many of the institutions are reluctant to do so.

Banks' deposit grew aggressively last year in spite of the declining returns.