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Sonali Bank was established in 1972 under the Bangladesh Banks (Nationalisation) Order, through the amalgamation and nationalisation of the branches of National Bank of Pakistan, Bank of Bahawalpur, and Premier Bank branches located in East Pakistan until the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. [11]
Bangladesh Bank robbery. The Bangladesh Bank robbery, also known colloquially as the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, [1] was a theft that took place in February 2016. Thirty-five fraudulent instructions were issued by security hackers via the SWIFT network to illegally transfer close to US$1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ...
The Hallmark-Sonali Bank loan scam is a massive loan fraud that took place in Bangladesh between 2010 and 2012. State owned Sonali Bank 's Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch lent over 35 billion Bangladeshi taka ($454 million as of 2011) based on falsified documents. Little-known company Hallmark Group received the majority, nearly Tk 27bn ($344M ...
Md. Afzal Karim is a Bangladeshi banker and managing director of Sonali Bank Limited. [1] [2] Sonali Bank is the largest state owned bank in Bangladesh. [3] He is the former managing director of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation. [4] He is the chairperson of the executive committee of Bangladesh Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association ...
The Hallmark-Sonali Bank Loan Scam refers to BDT 37 billion Hallmark Group took as loans from Sonali Bank when Islam was chairman of the bank. [11] Bangladesh Bank recommended the removal of all directors of Sonali Bank but the Minister of Finance Abul Maal Abdul Muhith criticised the recommendation. [12] The Parliamentary Standing Committee on ...
Ziaul Hasan Siddiqui is the chairman of Sonali Bank Limited. [1] He is a former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank. [2] [3] In 2024, he was forced to resign from the position of chairman of Sonali Bank due to allegations of irregularities after the revolution of students in the wake of the quota reform movement in Bangladesh.
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 ...
Alma mater. Faujdarhat Cadet College, University of Chittagong. Fazle Kabir (born July 4, 1955) is a Bangladeshi bureaucrat, economist, and central banker. [1][2][3] He served as the 11th Governor of Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh. [4] Prior to this position, he served as the Finance Secretary to the government and chairman of ...