Money Market Parameters Current Period Earlier Period Change Average Call Money Rate 3.70% (Oct 11 ’18) 3.93% (Oct 04 ’18) 0.23% Call Money Lending (Crore BDT) 6,966.56 (Oct 04’18) 6,706.75 (Oct 04’18) 3.87% Prices Weighted Average Deposit Rate 5.36% (Oct ’18) 5.36% (Oct 04’18) 0.00% Weighted Average Lending Rate 9.55%

BB asks banks to submit monitoring report by Oct Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked the scheduled banks to submit the monitoring report on money laundering and militancy financing issues before the central bank after investigating all branches within October. BB gave the instruction over the last two days to all

Central bank relaxes forex rules for foreigners The central bank relaxed its regulations allowing foreign tourists to get unspent Bangladesh Taka (BDT) reconverted to foreign exchanges from any licensed moneychangers. Officials said the Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued Tuesday a notification to this effect, asking all licenced MCs (money changers) and

SME loan disbursement for 2016 rises 22.49pc The overall small and medium enterprise (SME) credit disbursement grew by 22.49 per cent in 2016 following strengthened monitoring and supervision by Bangladesh Bank (BB), officials said. All banks and non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) disbursed Tk 1,419.35 billion loan to 634,574 SME entrepreneurs

BDT 1.3 trillion liquidity glut in banks cools market: No pre-festival call money volatility An all-time-high BDT 1.3 trillion liquidity glut in banks cast a damper on usual pre-festival upswing of call money in inter-bank borrowings, officials said. The inter-bank call-money rate remained stable Monday, barely a week before the